Beyond the Campus

WHEN he received an honorary degree at the University of Notre Dame last year President Dickey was cited as "a college president who, oddly enough, devotes almost all of his time to education." The citation rings true, and in the more recent years of his administration President Dickey has created more time for this central interest by cutting down on the outside activities that would fill his days if he'd let them. But he still fills a good many important positions - as trustee of the Rockefeller Foundation, director of the Atlantic Council of the U. S., governor of the Arctic Institute of North America, member of the Public Policy Committee of The Advertising Council, member of the Committee on Studies of the Council on Foreign Relations, member of the Visiting Committee of The Johns Hopkins Medical School, and elector from New Hampshire for The Hall of Fame.

During the past five years President Dickey also has managed some important published work. In 1960 he was a contributing author to The Secretary of State (Prentice-Hall) and last year he was editor and co-author of another volume in the same American Assembly series, The United States andCanada. An article on Robert Frost for Saturday Review and a chapter for the new Dartmouth history, The College on theHill, are other writings done in the midst of heavy duties.

McGill University honored President Dickey as a leader in American-Canadian relations by conferring its Doctorate of Laws on him last May. This was his 14th honorary degree. Other LL.D.'s have been awarded by Tufts (1945), Brown (1946), Middlebury (1946), Amherst (1947), Wesleyan (1952), New Hampshire (1953), Columbia (1954), Harvard (1956), Princeton (1956), Oberlin (1960), Bowdoin (1961), and Notre Dame (1964). Bucknell University conferred the honorary Doctorate of Civil Law in 1964.