Convocation

As the Class of 1978 was welcomed into the Dartmouth fellowship at the convocation celebrating the start of the 205th year of the College, President Kemeny, Dean Carroll W. Brewster, and Warner R. Traynham, new Dean of the Tucker Foundation, reminded freshmen and upper- classmen of the benefits and responsibilities that fellowship entails.

President Kemeny called for making "honesty a way of life at Dartmouth" as "together we ... write a new page in the history of the College .., a page thai future generations will be proud to read. He pointed out measures to be taken within the College community, revelant to problems of the nation and the world, which can effect "modest change": the pooling of resources from differed academic disciplines to solve common problems; the use of institutions of higher education for long-range planning; creation of a climate of racial and social equality; and continued emphasis on tegrity.

Dean Brewster talked about Dartmouth's commitment as much "to the Turing of your conscience, the animation of your spirit, as ... to the cultivation of your intellect and "the principle that each is essential to the other." The ways in which "Dartmouth will touch your spirits," he said, were in the satisfactions of hard work, the spirit of adventure, lack of pretentiousness, judgment and wisdom, a cultivated sense of the timeless, institutional loyalty, and brotherhood.

Dean Traynham called on the undergraduates to invest their lives rather than merely contributing their time to the acquisition of knowledge during their Dartmouth years. Recalling the admonition of President Tucker - "Do not expect that you will make any lasting or very strong impression on the world through intellectual power without the use of an equal amount of conscience and heart"

he said that the foundation's "concern is like salt. Its purpose is to actualize possibility, to bring out the savor that is here, to witness to compassion and integrity and the kind of truth that is not simply congruence with the facts."