The College

November, meteorologically the gloomiest month of the year in Hanover, descends as October's spectacular foliage fades and hopes for a fifth straight Ivy League football crown are rekindled after a faltering start.

The faithful returning for the Holy Cross and Penn games - advance troops of some 5000 expected for mini-reunions of 43 classes during the football season - found, beyond idyllic Indian summer weather and gridiron blues, some things old and some things new in town.

Alumni vied with caravans of what one television station dubbed "the leaf-peepers" for limited numbers of hostelry beds and seats in local eateries. A fair percentage of the less literate canines, unable to read the fine print on the village's new leash law, asserted their traditional right to roam. The perennial anguish over Hanover's traffic problems found voice in the columns of area newspapers. Traffic lights in serried ranks worthy of 42nd Street had sprouted over the intersection of Lyme Road and North Park Street, but the familiar Main Street jam all but precluded motion. Pickets representing a union striking against the construction company involved in several campus projects walked their beats in protest of wage differentials between Hanover and Manchester, N.H., but the work went on with minimal interference.

Dartmouth Night, in abeyance since 1969, was revived the night before the Penn game. President Kemeny, Dean Brewster, Alumni Council President Stevenson, and Coach Crouthamel spoke from the steps of Dartmouth Hall, following a campus tour by the marching band and a fireworks display launched from Chase Field. After brief observations on traditions, alumni, football ("we're going to kick hell out of Penn"), the band led the crowd to the center of the Green for a whopping bonfire- at 90 tiers, a realrouser which - left the ground still steaming at gametime Saturday.

An increasing feminine presence was evident, as women members of the Class of 1977 brought the total number of coeds on campus to 682. A minor cause celebre was the integration of the Glee Club, following the exception taken by some women students to a Freshman-Week notice that the organization would remain all male for the time being. Crisis was averted by a quick decision to divide the club into one all-male group and one all-female, which would perform separately as individual glee clubs and together as a mixed chorus. (Puts us in mind of a Dartmouth man a few years back who was so incensed by the revolutionary move of his medical school's undergraduate college to add sopranos and contraltos to its glee club that he tried - nsuccessfully - to crack the discriminatory water ballet.)

Green Key was organizing a concerted search for a jazzier symbol than "The Big Green," deemed by its members bland to the point of soporificity. Suggestions in the least-likely-to-succeed category included "The Crocodiles" and "The Jolly Green Giants."

The best-laid schemes - and estimates - of the seers of curricular patterns and student housing gang mildly a-gley this fall when demand for dormitory space for a time threatened to exceed supply, but last spring's conversion of a few singles to doubles and doubles to triples ensured all but a handful of temporarily displaced hopefuls a dormitory bed. Analysts vary in their explanation of the swing away from off-campus housing, but as good a guess as any is that coeducation has somehow brightened the institutional environment.

As gaudy October gave way to sombre November, students braced themselves for forthcoming mid-terms and householders for what they hoped would be not too long or too cold a winter. Cross-country team members were perambulating about the dry pavements on roller training skis, gaining awesome acceleration from their ski poles. The hardiest out-doorsmen, mindful of soaring costs and tentative fuel supplies, joined their less rugged brethen in wishing well those prognosticators who are forecasting a mild season to come.

A changing ethos was discernible in a number of ways. "Men of Dartmouth" was sung without comment, editorial or otherwise, at the close of September's Convocation, which had more of the aspect of a revival meeting than a solemn academic ceremony. A member of the Class of 1968 reappeared on campus as a Marine recruiter, causing scarcely a ripple on the college pond. One undergraduate, a government major, is moonlighting on two eight-hour shifts a week with the White River Junction Police Department. On 24-hour-a-day call, he would be subject to emergency duty in case of a riot, which he considers a most unlikely event. The Dartmouth in late October ran a series of articles on Dartmouth traditions, explaining such historic tribal customs as canes, blazers, wetdowns, and the Senior Fence to their confreres - and consoeurs.

One group which has opted for off-campus living is a cadre of undergraduates who are part of the community at True Farm in Meriden, N.H., established recently by the Dartmouth Christian Fellowship. At harvest time, residents of the farm, who include a family of five and several alumni, were selling their produce daily from a truck on Main Street. The fellowship, numbering more than 200 members, also runs a coffee house called Agape.

Another "first" was recorded when Professor Colette Gaudin was selected from the membership of the Committee on Organization and Policy to chair faculty meetings when President Kemeny is out of town. "Firsts" are old hat to Professor Gaudin: first female faculty marshall and, when she was promoted to associate professor rank, one of the first women to be granted tenure by the College.

Other autumn happenings:

In his October State of the College address to the assembled faculties of the undergraduate college and the associated schools, President Kemeny reported a budget surplus of $438,000 for the College at the end of the 1973 fiscal year. He attributed three fourths of the surplus to expenses lowered than budgeted, the other quarter to revenues higher than anticipated. Improved operations in many areas account for much of the saving, why a mild winter left contingency funds intact The budget, the President reminded the faculties, covered all expenses of the undergraduate college, but only part of those of the three professional schools, which have their own budgets. He also predicted deficits for the next two or three years since expendable portions of the Third Century Fund are exhausted.

Three new faces have appeared on the Crosby Hall scene, with direct responsibility in the area of alumni affairs Elizabeth Ely, formerly controller at the Data Processing Office, has been named director of gift recording and research. Frank Logan '52, in recent years dean of admissions and financial aid at Antioch College and from 1956 to 1962 assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth, has returned to become associate secretary of the Bequest and Estate Planning Program, J. Michael Stuart '71 has joined the staff as director of Alumni College and associate in the Office of the Secretary.

The Thayer School has received $500,000 from the William Bingham II Trust, the largest single endowment gift in its 103-year history. The income will be used to develop a series of undergraduate courses designed to give liberal arts students an awareness and appreciation of modern technology and its relationship to society.

Frances K. Loh of Penang, Malaysia, has been named a Senior Fellow for this academic year. His project, which he will pursue independently under the supervision of a faculty member but without the encumbrance of formal class work, is on "Islam and Naturalism in Southeast Asia."

Sandra Dakota Spaulding, a Dakota, and Anthony Genia, an Ottawa-Choctaw, have joined the administrative staff of the College, with special responsibilities in the Native American Program - Mrs. Spaulding as a counselor, Genia as liaison with the Offices of Admission and Financial Aid. They will also serve as administrative representatives on the new Native American Council, a policy-making organization for all non-academic Indian programs at the College.

Bio - si; history - non. The swinging pendulum of undergraduate subject preferences, the sort that give departmental chairmen king-size headaches when time comes to consider new appointments and course offerings, has almost completely reversed the numbers of juniors declaring majors in history and biology between last year and this. The Class of 1974 has 70 biology majors and 97 in history; 91 members of the Class of 1975 have opted, for biology and 70 for history. A growing trend toward pre-med apparently accounts for the biology bulge. Psychology, which experienced a significant upswing last year, remained relatively unchanged, as did economics, government, English, and mathematics. Music has 10 new majors this year, more than tripling last year's 3. Sociology declined from 20 to 9 and anthropology from 13 to 6. Sic transit tranquillitas.

Souvenir peddlers get prettier all the time.

One dejected horse and one lone car share Main Street in pre-traffic jam Hanover.

A flock of sheep, their peaceable kingdom disturbed, pose for a bucolic picture at the Dartmouth Christian Fellowship's True Farm.

hmen top off the Dartmouth Night bonfire.