The College

IN the presence of some 2500 persons in Alumni Gymnasium on Sunday afternoon, March 1, John George Kemeny accepted three historic symbols of office and was installed as 13th President of Dartmouth College. From Lloyd D. Brace '25, chairman of the Board of Trustees, he received the original Charter of the College. From his predecessor, John Sloan Dickey, he received the historic Wentworth Bowl and the John Flude Medal, worn by the President on ceremonial occasions since 1785.

President Kemeny's acceptance of the symbols entrusted to him and his inaugural address (see pages 19-21) were the central events of a simple, hour-long ceremony marking the transition from one administration to another. The opening procession of the faculty in academic regalia added color, and the historic importance of the occasion provided its own quiet air of pomp and solemnity.

Provost Leonard M. Rieser '44 was the presiding officer at the installation. Others seated on the raised platform at the north end of the basketball court, in addition to Messrs. Kemeny, Dickey and Brace, were Governor Walter R. Peterson Jr. '47 of New Hampshire, who spoke briefly, Prof. Fred Berthold Jr. '45, who gave the invocation, and Dean Carroll Brewster, who was head marshal.

Special guests in the audience included a number of Dartmouth Trustees; delegates from Princeton University and Middlebury College, where President Kemeny holds academic degrees; representatives from New Hampshire and Vermont colleges and universities; and members of the Kemeny and Dickey families. At the conclusion of the installation program a public reception was held in Alumni Hall in Hopkins Center.