The campus has welcomed a number of prominent visiting speakers this month who contributed to the College's work without notice in the national press, unfortunately.
Sir John Eccles, who won the Nobel Prize for his research on the nervous system, delivered the Dartmouth Medical School Annual Lecture. The Nobel laureate, whose scientific career has been divided between his native Australia and England where he originally went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, spoke on "Evolution and the Conscious Self."
In a spring-term continuation of the Senior Symposia which began auspiciously last fall, the senior class and others in the college community heard Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who was invited to discuss the Court's decisions as they affect controversial social issues in America. The Committee on Freshman Reading was host and sponsor for a talk by psychologist and author Kenneth Kenniston of Yale. Professor Kenniston's timely lecture was on student dissenters, the activists and the alienated.