THE PRESS

While Dartmouth students have been be meaning the Babbittry of the Dartmouth student body and claiming that it faces rugged mountains of the north and turns its back on the world beyond White River, Harvard has been busy. Now President Conant announces an interesting educational experiment, endeavoring to link more closely scholarship and contemporary events.

This year Harvard will offer a series of extra-curricular lectures on present government by professors volunteering their services. These talks are intended to serve as a testing ground for opinion and theories developed in research, and to place greater responsibilities for creative thinking on students. Subjects to be discussed include the German State, fascism, communism, international law, and Japanese foreign policy.

Being a large university, Harvard has many young professors anxious to gain an audience for their research reports. At Dartmouth, the professor are more concerned with teaching than research, and consequently President Conant's plan is hardly suitable for this campus. But The Dartmouth believes that general weekly discussions by members of the local faculty would do much to re-kindle in the Dartmouth student body interest in the history-making events taking place in the world today.

Last year The Dartmouth, in co-operation with the Economics department attempted to sponsor a similar program on contemporary problems. Lectures by Professor Leffler and Professor Rice on banking and agriculture were well attended, and appreciated. Were these lectures to be thrown open to all faculty departments, the logical organization to manage the program would be The Junto. The president of that organization expressed his willingness to cooperate. Several professors likewise contacted, also believed that these weekly "classes" would be an asset to the college.

It is time the wall around Hanover be leveled entirely. For this reason, the non-compulsory course plan is worth contemplation and ramification. --The Dartmouth.