Class of 1970.

Although the 797 young men of the Class of 1970 have yet to demonstrate their awesome potential in the classroom, they have already made an impression as a very responsive group. More than 600, for instance, have voluntarily enrolled in the Committee on Reading's program for the year.

The incoming freshmen were sent a list of ten books including works by Hemingway, Kazantzakis, Malraux, Bertrand Russell, Dylan Thomas, Frost, Wolfe, Dostoyevsky, Camus, and Brecht from which they could select one, or more, to read before coming to the campus. During Freshman Week they had the opportunity to meet and discuss these books, and any other ideas that the conversation on these books generated, in small groups with one of the 58 uperclassmen who led the discussions. Interested faculty members and other students also joined in the sessions. The freshmen will get other booklists for outside-the-class reading and for discussion sessions for each of the three terms.

The Class of 1970 also showed a special interest in getting acquainted with Dartmouth's very special north country environment. A record 400 took to the mountains in the Dartmouth Outing Club-run Freshman Trips, necessitating four different groups and a last-minute call for extra group leaders. Two of the groups had an extraordinary opportunity to get an early acquaintance with Dartmouth's faculty as two members of the faculty from the Department of Chemistry volunteered to go off into the woods with the Pea Greens.

The Class of 1970 responded with similar enthusiasm to Coach Bob Blackman's invitation. More than 130 candi- dates for freshman football, one of the largest turnouts ever, according to Blackman, gave additional evidence that Dartmouth's newest class is as "well-rounded" as it is enthusiastic.