Summer '71: Diligent Diversity
"Dartmouth: Summer '71" was the designation given the academic term of June 27 through August 21. It was the most successful in nine years of summer sessions, with 622 students registered—117 of them in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program.
In a broader sense too, Summer '71 was the busiest and the biggest on the Dartmouth campus, as the College played host to groups large and small concentrating on a spectrum of issues of the 1970's—and enjoying the Hanover scene.
Summer '71 was diverse. The eighth annual Alumni College drew the largest enrollment to date—300 men and women and 150 children—for a multi-discipline approach to the problem of "Freedom and Authority in America." A group of 55 graduate deans from every corner of the land met to consider graduate education in broad perspective. Nearly 100 physicians gathered for a three-day symposium on "The Heart and Cardiovascular Disease in Relation to Total Body Function." A research team of student biologists and social scientists made a detailed study of Lake Mascoma from ecological, recreational, and attitudinal points of view.
Summer '71 looked to the past arid the future. A team of distinguished scholars, attracted by library and locale, chose Hanover for their cooperative work in compiling The Oxfod Anthologyof English Literature and enhanced the summer curriculum with lectures at Sanborn House in their special fields. A total of 1100 registrants attended a National Science Foundation-sponsored conference on "Uses of the Computer in Undergraduate Education."
Summer '71 was enriched by a varied program of cultural activities at the Hopkins Center, broadened from 1970's austerity though not on the glittering scale of previous summers' Congregations of the Arts. The New Theater Ensemble, a group of young actors from New York, staged an eight-week, threeplay repertory season, there were 21 concerts in Spaulding Auditorium, and the galleries offered a range of exhibits in the fine arts.
Morning Lectures and coffee-break over, Alumni College students leave Hopkins Center for seminar discussions.
The 300 men and women enrolled in Alumni College listen to a lecture by Prof.Bernard Gert of the Philosophy Department in the Hopkins Center theater.
