Alumni College Books Available
For the alumnus who cannot attend the first Dartmouth Alumni College but would like to participate vicariously by diving into the required reading, information on the Alumni College booklist is offered below.
The entire set of books with questions on the books prepared by the Alumni College faculty for advance study may be ordered for sls (please send check made out to Dartmouth College with request) through J. Michael McGean, Director of Alumni College, 205 Crosby Hall, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H.
The books:
The Voice Out of the Whirlwind: TheBook of Job, Materials for Analysis, Selected and Edited by Ralph E. Hone, University of Redlands; Chandler Publishing Co. (paperback). Includes the Book of Job and other relevant portions of the Bible, five essays as introductions to the study of Job, three sermons on "The Example of Job," eight famous essays referring to the Book of Job, and eleven pieces by modern writers (including Robert Frost) on either Job, McLeish's J.B., or both.
As You Like It by William Shakespeare; Edited by Ralph M. Sargent; The Pelican Shakespeare, Penguin Books (paperback). Includes sections on "Shakespeare and His Stage," "The Text of the Plays," and an Introduction, in addition to the drama.
Walden and Other Writings of Henry David Thoreau; Edited with a Biographical Introduction by Brooks Atkinson; The Modern Library, No. 155 (cloth bound). This volume contains, in addition to Walden complete and unabridged, the essays Civil Disobedience, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Pleafor Captain John Brown, Life Without Principle, and selections from Cape Cod and his other nature studies.
Lord of the Flies by William Golding; Capricorn Books (paperback). The story of the novel, which many have seen as a film, concerns a group of English boys who are stranded on an island - and something more.
Religion and the Modern Mind by W.T. Stace; Keystone Books, J.P. Lippincott Co. (paperback). A distinguished philosopher examines the place of religion in the modern science-oriented world.
Of Men and Machines, Edited, with an Introduction, by Arthur O. Lewis Jr.; E. P. Dutton and Co. (paperback). A collection of more than fifty selections concerned with man's relationship to the machines he has created, drawn from fiction, poetry, drama essays, and scholarly studies.
The Affluent Society by John Kenneth Galbraith; a Mentor Book published by the New American Library (paperback). The distinguished Harvard economist's study of a society of high and increasing affluence, how it got there, and where it may be heading.
Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke; A Bantam Book (paperback). Subtitled "A Fascinating Inquiry into the World of Tomorrow." Author-scientist Clarke, a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, has some views which may turn out to be less "way out" than Jules Verne's once seemed.
Although enrollment for the 1964 Dartmouth Alumni College is about at the limit of 200 (raised from 150 places because of heavy demand), unexpected cancellations may provide a few openings later in the spring. Alumni wishing to attend should make inquiries about possible openings to Director McGean.
