Briefly Noted
" . . .Dartmouth College, with its small size, emphasis on undergraduate education, and commitment to a liberal arts education, should not attempt to produce professional ‘environmental scientists.’ Rather, the College should do what it can do best: it should open the minds of potential leaders in a wide variety of professions to the complexities and dangers of environmental problems. Dartmouth can make a far greater contribution toward modifying the social-economic basis for our survival by producing many informed and committed doctors, artists, businessmen, engineers, and journalists, than it will by producing a handful of specialists.”
So speak William A. Reiners (Biology), Lawrence Dingman (Earth Sciences), and George Mackinko (Geography) in their essay “Dartmouth Proposal for an Under- graduate Educational Program in Environ- mental Studies.” It appears in A ConferenceReport, Undergraduate . Education in En-vironmental Studies, edited by Prof. Reiners and Prof. Frank Smallwood ’5l, with contributions by Sterling Brackett (with American Cynamid Company, 1943-1962, now a private consultant), Georg Bergstrom (Michigan State University), Dennis Chitty (University of British Columbia), Charles H. W. Foster (private consultant), A. J. W. Sheffey (Director, Williams College Center for Environmental Studies), and Gerald Witherspoon (President, Goddard College).
The paperback of 100 pages is published by The Public Affairs Center & Dartmouth Bicentennial Year Committee. The authors of four working papers (Brackett, Chitty, Sheffey, and Foster) participated in a panel session with five Dartmouth faculty mem- bers plus two Dartmouth students, George Kain ’7O and William Oberst ’7O.
“ ... It has often been remarked, that the location of Dartmouth College is peculiarly favorable to study and the preservation of morals.” Above the words is a picture of the Medical College, Hanover, dated 1823. A second picture shows a stage coach drawn by six white horses, and the advertisement promises daily transportation from Clare- mont to Boston at a reduced rate of $2.50. Date: 1848. These two and 58 others, with appropriate texts, appear in Sampler ofIllustrated Books Published in New England1769-1869 and are chosen from the Class of 1926 Memorial Collection in the Dartmouth College Library. The foundations of the collection were laid in 1960 when the Class of 1926 Memorial Committee, under the Chairmanship of Richard H. Mandel, re- solved “to build within the Library, through the careful acquisition of books in a single subject area,” a special collection “of permanent usefulness and value to the College as a scholarly resource.” It now has about 1200 titles. The introduction to the Sampler is by Howard C. Rice. The edition is limited to 200 copies in offset lithography.
What about conglomerates, those high fliers of boom days reported to have been severely injured casualties of the so-called Nixon bear market? Is it logical that some of the lesser companies gobbled up by con- glomerates between 1965 and 1968 may have regrets? What role does the notoriously acute 20-20 hindsight play in spirited defenses of smaller companies becoming units of conglom- erates? Should a railroad get involved with amusement parks, hockey teams, and hotels?
Four Dartmouth men may be counted among some 70 practicing attorneys, legal scholars, economists, accountants, tax spe- cialists, top corporate executives, and gov- ernment spokesman who discuss antitrust, economic, securities, accounting and tax implications of the conglomerate phenome- non in a recent volume. Martin L. Lindahl ’4oh, Professor of Economics Emeritus, writes an introduction to the essays and comments on their authors. Joseph W. Bishop ’35, Professor of Law, Yale University, is author of the Preface. J. Malcolm Swenson ’59, President and Treasurer of the John Swen- son Granite Company, Inc., contributes “Action Against Conglomerates—Will It Hurt Small Business?” In “Acquiring the Closely-Held Corporatoin” Robert S. Taft ’56, a member of the New York Bar, devotes himself to the phenomenon of numerous small, closely held corporate businesses in America today which are considered “ripe for a takeover” by large corporations and what the duties and methods are of lawyers in these situations. Costing $2O hardbound and $l5 softbound, the volume entitled Conglomerate Mergers and Acquisiitons:Opinion and Analysis, published as Volume 44, Spring 1940, Special Edition, runs to 1171 pages, by the St. John’s Law Review Associations.
As a memorial to Second Lieutenant Duncan B. Sleigh ’67 of the U. S. Marine Corps, his father, William B. Sleigh Jr. ’25 has published a Memorial with a Preface recounting the posthumous award of the Navy Cross before a mixed group of military and civilians on the sunlit forward deck of Old Ironsides in the Boston Naval Shipyard on July 18, 1969. Rear Admiral J. C. Wylie, Commanding Officer of the First Naval District, addressed the group, and a Marine colonel read the citation signed by the Secretary of the Navy, John H. Chafee. In attempting to protect the wounded under heavy fire in Quang Nam Province Nov. 6, 1968, Leiutenant Sleigh crawled to one casualty and lay huddled over him as a shield to protect him and others nearby from death at the cost of his own life from a rocket-propelled grenade. The Memorial contains also letters from Vietnam written by the son to his family and friends and letters received from officers and men who served with him. Lieutenant Sleigh was 23 years old.
“Order is indispensable to society, law is indispensable to order, enforcement is indis- pensable to law. The justice and decency of the law and its enforcement are no simply desirable embellishments, but rather the indispensable condition of respect for law and civil peace in a free society.” Such is the quotation taken by Wilton S. Sogg ’56 from the “Report of the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence.” It serves as a foreword to the revised 1970 edition of Smith’s Review, Legal GemSeries, Criminal Law and Procedure' , forLaw School and Bar Examinations, which has been completely updated and restruc- tured. Mr. Sogg, co-author, is Adjunct Professor of Law at Cleveland State University.
