Table of Contents

IN THIS ISSUE

22 THE COMMUNITY COLLEGE

Thomas E. o'Connell '50, President of Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Mass., discusses the place in American higher education of the two-year institutions that are spreading like wildfire and becoming perhaps the college of the future.

26 BOSTON'S 100TH ANNIVERSARY DINNER

Some photographs taken at the gala evening in the Statler ballroom when Boston's large alumni club celebrated its centennial.

30 A NEW PLATEAU FOR FINANCIAL AID

Undergraduate scholarship grants in excess of $1 million this year point up the College's remarkable postwar increase in aid.

Dartmouth Authors 4

Samuel Lorenzo Knapp 13

Town and Gown 16

The College 19

A Wah Hoo Wah for - 20

The Faculty 28

The Undergraduate Chair 33

Sophs Figure A Way 35

With the Big Green Teams 36

A Miner Strikes Olympic Gold 39

News from the Clubs 40

News from the Classes 43

Associated School News 79

In Memoriam 80

THE COVER

From 1 to 5 almost every afternoon the Steele Hall laboratories are filled with chemistry students carrying out their experiments and filling the hallways with pungent odors. The begoggled student on the cover is sophomore Henry W. Art of Evanston, Ill., in Organic Chemistry 52, engaged in "the systematic identification of organic compounds issued as unknowns." COVER PHOTO BY ADRIAN BOUCHARD