IN BRIEF

The seventh annual Jacob Ziskind Memorial Lectures, sponsored by the William Jewett Tucker Foundation, were delivered at Dartmouth, March 10-12, by the Rev. Gregory Baum, 0.5.A., director of the Center of Ecumenical Studies at St. Michael's College, Toronto, Canada. Father Baum gave three lectures on "Catholic Trends and the Vatican Council." He has played an active role in the Second Ecumenical Council and is consultant to the Roman Catholic Church's Secretariat for Christian Unity.

Letters by important figures in American history, including Henry Clay, Walt Whitman, and Theodore Roosevelt, are in a small but choice collection of Speed family papers recently given to the College by William Craik Speed of Pound Ridge, N.Y. The Speed family, prominent in Kentucky since the 18th century, included U.S. Congressman Thomas Speed and U.S. Attorney General James Speed. Most of the letters in the collection given to Dartmouth were written to these two men and to Thomas Speed's grandson, Thomas Speed III, author of The Wilderness Road. Among those who wrote were Edwin Stanton, William Wirt, John Crittenden, Jefferson Davis, General Sherman, Benjamin Harrison, Simon Bolivar Buckner, and Lyman Trumbull. The gift by William Craik Speed was made through the interest of Charles K. O'Neill '31 of Greens Farms, Conn.

More than 200 college and high school teachers of the classics met at Dartmouth on the weekend of March 20-21 for the 58th annual meeting of the Classical Association of New England. The association was founded in 1906 with Prof. Charles Darwin Adams of Dartmouth as its first president. It last met here in 1914. Prof. Norman A. Doenges of Dartmouth, as secretary- treasurer, was in charge of the Hanover arrangements, and Prof. John W. Zarker was one of the speakers.

Another Dartmouth conference brought student representatives from thirty northeastern colleges to the campus February 28 and March 1 for discussion of the college and politics; civil rights, discrimination, and the student; and social and academic freedom, all under the main theme, "A Focus on the College Community." The conference was sponsored by the Dartmouth Undergraduate Council, which recently decided to drop out of the National Student Association and to work instead to develop communication among colleges on a regional basis. U.S. Congressman Clark MacGregor '44 (R-Minn.) was a guest speaker.

Last year when President Dickey voted for the appointment of Albert W. Tucker of Princeton as Visiting Professor of Mathematics for the fall term he voted himself out of a very capable secretary. Miss Mary Shaw and Professor Tucker were married on February 26 and plan to reside in Princeton, where Dr. Tucker, former president of the American Mathematical Association, is Albert Baldwin Dodd Professor of Mathematics.

It is quite de rigueur for Dartmouth students to wash their own clothes these days, and in response to demand for them, washing machines have been installed in about twenty dormitories. A few College-owned washers have been available since 1955, but under the new system the machines are all owned, operated and serviced by an outside company. All it takes is a quarter and a little soap powder - plus a date who can iron.