No Summer Slack

The activity on the construction front was but a minor part of another busy summer in Hanover - the busiest since the Summer Term was inaugurated four years ago, some thought. As reported in this issue by our Undergraduate Editor, who was on hand to help put out the summer version of The Dartmouth, Hopkins Center dominated the months of July and August with its theater and music programs, art shows, movies, and kaleidoscopic activities. An early start on the summer concert series was made June 25 when Jack Benny, "the internationally famous violinist," came to Hanover to perform with the Dartmouth Symphony Orchestra. His performance was for the benefit of the Hopkins Center Music Fund, and if Spaulding Auditorium had been twice as large, the comedian's fans would have filled it.

Music was restored to an even keel by a succession of famous visiting composers - Frank Martin of Switzerland, Hans Henze of Germany, and Aaron Copland of the United States. And at the theater end of the Center (the front really) the Dartmouth Summer Repertory Company was attracting its own audiences with a staggered schedule of three plays - Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Congreve's Love for Love, and Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth.

The 1967 Summer Term had an enrollment of 471 undergraduate and 97 graduate students, who provided the hard core of academic effort for eight weeks. Among the 27 programs that brought 1735 other students and conferees to the campus were some groups by now familiar to the Dartmouth summer scene - an ABC contingent of 87 underprivileged boys, the Peace Corps with 327 men and women involved in its various training programs, the Credit and Financial Management School of 275 which has been coming to Tuck School since 1950, the Russian Institute, History Institute and African-American Institute, and the Bell Telephone executives. This year science - researchers, computer teachers, engineering educators, and college fund-raisers were some of the larger groups in town for long or short periods; and the whole busy summer was given a gratifying finale when 220 adults and 150 children arrived for the fourth annual Alumni College.