Successful Summer

The September 11 arrival of '76ers for the first of a week-long series of Freshman Trips, then the arrival of the entire entering class plus transfers for orientation week, did not leave much of a breathing spell between a busy summer and the first stirrings of the fall term.

The summer program ran through the first days of September and wound up with the biggest event of all — the presence in Hanover of more than 1200 mathematicians attending the annual meetings of the Mathematical Association of America, the American Mathematical Society, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Pi Mu, undergraduate math fraternity. Blessed with beautiful weather, the five-day gathering was declared one of the most successful ever for the scholarly groups involved, and kudos were deserved by the hard-working Dartmouth faculty committee in charge. One of the main addresses was given by President Kemeny, whose topic was "What Every College President Ought to Know About Mathematics."

The summer term, last of its kind before the start of year-round operation, had a record enrollment of 807 students, including 300 Dartmouth undergraduates. Around this academic core some twenty other groups came and went. Prominent among them were two 90-member contingents in Dartmouth's ninth summer ABC program, the annual Alumni College attended by 215 adults and 90 children, and the new Dartmouth Institute, whose inaugural session is described in an article in this issue.