Table of Contents

In This Issue

21 OFF-CAMPUS STUDIES GROW

The "in absentia" total in the College Directory rises steadily as more and more students engage in the five basic programs that will take 450 men away from Hanover for varying periods this year.

24 OPPORTUNITIES FOR THIS YEAR

President Kemeny in the Convocation Address opening Dartmouth's 201st year states some views on national issues and outlines the educational areas in which he expects the College to make progress.

28 WHAT IS A CONSERVATIVE?

Norman Lazare '40, granting that no precise definition is likely to be made, undertakes to fill in the essentials of a philosophical and political stance that is much to the fore these days.

32 ALUMNI ALBUM—30

A profile of Thomas George '40, the well-known abstract artist.

ROTC: An Explanation 10

Dartmouth Authors 12

Poems by Kimball Flaccus '33 15

The College 17

A Letter to President Nixon 19

The Faculty 27

The Princeton Weekend 34

Alumni Sons in '74 36

Big Green Teams 37

Class Notes 41

Associated School News 72

Obituaries 74

The Cover

The elongated photograph, by Adrian Bouchard, depicts a slice of the record home crowd of more than 20,000 that witnessed Dartmouth's 38-0 victory over Princeton. The other photograph, courtesy of Hanover's Valley News, shows Bill Sewall '70 as resident ABC tutor in Lebanon, one of the off-campus projects attracting a rising number of students during the academic year. COVER DESIGN BY JOHN R. SCOTFORD JR. '38