1921

These notes are being written just a week before the Harvard game, an event that must be viewed with some trepidation in view of Harvard's so far Undefeated team and Dartmouth's 1-3 record; If Dan Ruggles could still be with us he might conjure up one of those old "Sportraits" predictions for the rest of the season that he used to write for the Daily Dartmouth. Not having that gift myself, I shall merely say that I have unlimited confidence in the spirit of this year's Indian team and tremendous respect for Joe Yukica's ability as a coach.

As for the class activities, 26 have signed up for the Friday night dinner and 40 for the pregame luncheon. These figures include wives.

Ralph and Greta Pendleton are leaving Rutland, Mass., this month to resettle near their daughter, Judith Hyland, at 1703 Kennedy Ave., Loveland, Colo. 80537.

Many of us in retirement decide that the thing to do is to take it easy do some traveling, walk the beach, play a bit of golf, spoil the grandchildren. Some others have other ideas, and I'm thinking specifically of Jack Hubbell. His activities since his retirement from the Simmons Company in December of 1964 are just short of amazing. In the first place, he stayed on the Simmons board of directors until May of 1975 and was engaged in a series of special projects for them.

He then joined the advertising agency of Young & Rubicam for a year or so as a consultant in their solicitation and servicing of retail accounts. Next he joined a voluntary organization called the Council for Financial Aid to Education, whose function is to help corporations make the most effective use of any grants they may wish to make to education. They do not solicit funds merely advise how best to allocate the funds already planned.

He bowed out of that assignment a few months ago, and then, as he still was not quite ready to start taking it easy, has just taken an assignment as director of marketing of Whitney Communications, a corporation headed by John H. Whitney, which owns a number of special interest magazines and newspapers.

So good luck, Jack, and don't forget that the United States is starting to look for likely candidates for the 1984 Olympics!

In a recent issue of the new weekly The Dartmouth Review, Professor Jeffrey Hart '5l, son of 1921's departed Cliff and Gladys, argued strongly that Dartmouth College needs to reexamine its purpose and its curriculum. Hart views the curriculum as fragmented. He sees it as having grown in response to demands by particular constituencies and particular interests, and as possessing little overall rationale. Hart proposes that students be required to acquaint themselves with Western civilization and gave as one model the required humanities course he had taken during his senior year at Columbia College. There students take a one year course beginning with Homer and continuing through the Greek and Roman classics, the Old and New Testaments, St. Augustine, Dante, some great works from the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, and on into modern times. According to Professor Hart, too many Dartmouth students know where they are in space but not where they are in time, that is, where they came from. Possession of such a body of common knowledge, he argued, would greatly improve the quality of intellectual life on the campus both for students and faculty.

When I phoned Jeff, who is unquestionably one of the College's most stimulating and popular professors, to check on the above story that had appeared in Bill Buckley's "National Review," he assured me that the above criticism could be applied with even greater emphasis to almost every college in America.

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