Summer Events
The summer program this year has been put together as a first step towards a genuine fourth term, reflecting the College's concern that it be more than "an intellectually lethargic rest home" for picking up extra credits. The program offers courses and professors unavailable during the regular year, and stresses interdisciplinary and problem-oriented courses as well as study in separate disciplines focusing on a common theme.
Although substituting the summer term for another term would not be practical for most students this year, according to Gregory Prince, director of summer programs, the full parity ten-week term planned for 1972 will make term-trading an attractive educational alternative.
Outside conferences are scheduled in addition to the academic program and activities at Hopkins Center. The revival of the latter is noteworthy, following last summer's stringent cutback, although programs this summer will not match the busiest of earlier summers.
The Bentley Theater will feature an eight- week season, 43 performances, by a group of young actors from New York, called the New Theatre Ensemble, performing three plays in repertory: Tennessee Williams' Glass Menagerie and two more recent plays, Who's Happy Now? by Oliver Hailey and The Journey of the Fifth Horse by Ronald Ribman. There will be 21 Spaulding concerts during the season, three by artists coming to Hanover just for those engagements, the others by musicians in residence.
Courses in Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature, Environmental Studies, Sciences and Languages are included. Conflict and Change in the Modern World offers a series of courses drawn from the History and Government Departments, designed to explore revolutionary change in the United States, Latin America, India and the Soviet Bloc. An area of study called Contemporary American Society, includes courses from the departments of History, Government, Sociology, Urban Studies, and Geography.
Fifteen conferences of from two days' to several weeks' duration have been scheduled at the College, with several others planned for the Minary Center on Squam Lake. Alumni College, which is scheduled for August 15-26, will offer a broad interdisciplinary approach to the theme "Freedom and Authority in America."
