HANOVER SUMMER

THE business of learning as usual — in Hanover — in the summer? Absurd! Classes in July, finals in August probably seem a contradiction in terms to pre-year-round-operation alumni, but academic demands and extra-curricular activities jostle one another for the student's time in the summer just about as they normally do in traditional term-times — as these photographs taken in recent weeks by Adrian Bouchard and Nancy Wasserman '77 tell better than 17,000 words.

Most undergraduates, finding a summer term in residence inevitable, come to enjoy it. Many return for an unrequired repeat performance. With fewer students on campus, the pace tends to be a little less hectic, library books more readily available, facilities — other than tennis courts — less crowded. Alumni are in town again in greater numbers than at other seasons, with the exception of football weekends. Summer Carnival's "Olympiade" of frisbees and foot-races substitutes for Winter's snow sculptures, fraternity bashes move outdoors, sun competes a shade more often with study for attention, but booking in the 1902 Room, 12:30 REP, the Players, and exhibitions in Hopkins Center galleries go on as usual. And it still rains now and again.

Not your standard scene on the Green since Eleazar's day, but very much a part of a New Hampshire Fourth of July.

Straw-hat circuit at the Hop.

Their business still is learning.

"Did I ever tell you about the time ... ?"

Ella Fitzgerald D.H.L., before her concert.

Undistracted by a passing Jeep, a lone meditator hearkens to his mantra

Deft fingers fashion a dulcimer.

JGK takes on a double header at Carnival.

Trio — or is it a sextet? — from the Players' production of The Mandrake scores a pre-performance assist.

No duckboards when Belle struck.

Even Green Key was never like this.

Training for the Olympics, U.S. women's crew catches crab on the Connecticut.

Assaying f-stop and focus.

Full steam ahead in the lab

A book of verses underneath the bough," no jug of wine, no loaf of bread, but a faithful friend beside him in the wilderness

Floor muralist at work.

La Penseuse in a rugger shirt.