In Brief ...

LETTERS of admission to Dartmouth's Class of 1967 were mailed to 1200 boys on April 15. From this number an entering class of 800 or more is expected. The successful candidates were chosen from a total of 3700 completed applications. "Nearly all of the 3700 were well qualified," according to Director of Admissions Edward T. Chamberlain Jr. '36, "and at least 3000 could probably have done the work and graduated from the College. The Class of 1967 will be made up of a lot of good, exciting boys."

Under the auspices of Dartmouth's Public Affairs. Center, Robert B. Brown, chief auditor of the General Services Administration in Washington, is spending a month at the College, until May 17, as a visiting federal executive. He will lecture in courses and meet with students to discuss public service as a career. He is the third government official to visit Dartmouth under this program, inaugurated last year.

A Hanover landmark for medical students, the old Alpha Kappa Kappa house on East Wheelock Street, has been razed and the site transformed into open lawn. With Strasenburgh Hall, the new medical dormitory, now in use, the old structure was no longer needed and was deemed unsafe for any other residential purpose.

Good news for Hanoverians and students attending the summer term is the plan of the Hanover Improvement Society to renovate and enlarge the Storrs Pond recreation area and to build a new outdoor swimming pool. The College has agreed to provide up to $40,000 of the estimated total cost of $183,000 for the badly needed facilities. In the summer a daily average of 800 persons use the Storrs Pond area, near Oak Hill.

The new seismograph at the College has a world-wide range and has been recording earthquakes at the average rate of one every three days. Extremely sensitive, it also picks up the pounding of the surf on the Maine coast, according to Prof. Robert W. Decker, who is in charge of the seismograph.