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...confused with General Motors' President Charles Erwin Wilson. Other members: Lever Bros.' Charles Luckman, C.I.O.'s James B. Carey, A.F.L.'s Boris Shishkin, College Presidents John S. Dickey of Dartmouth and Frank P. Graham of the University of North Carolina, ex-Assistant City Solicitor Sadie T. Alexander of Philadelphia, Lawyer Morris L. Ernst of New York, Lawyer Francis P. Matthews of Nebraska, A.V.C.'s Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Methodist Social Worker Mrs. M. E. Tilly of Atlanta, Rabbi Roland B. Gittelsohn of Long Island, the Most Rev. Francis J. Haas, Bishop of Grand Rapids...
...time Dickey took office, sons of Alumni were virtually guaranteed a place in the college. Somebody figured out then that by 1970 there would not be room for all those sons of Dartmouth, much less for outsiders. The new president seized the argument and soon tapered off the circular inbreeding. The once-privileged sons now go through the same admissions interviews as anyone else...
...scant two years ago, John Sloan Dickey became president of the college, and since that time he has done some face-lifting in Hanover that has also lifted some eyebrows among the conservative Dartmouth family...
Personally, Dickey has brought to Hanover an informality unknown during the 29-year tenure of President Hopkins. Dickey, who in 1929 was still a Big Green undergraduate, has forsaken Hopkins' sleek, presidential limousine for a sturdy little jeep. He has been known to pitch in with the snow shoveling squads and has been variously photographed with dogs, a genuine Dartmouth Indian baby, and a broad chief executive smile. Undergraduates who are not afraid of him like...
...Dickey's pet project is the Great Issues course which is required of all seniors. Designed to bring the foundation knowledge of the first three college years into sharp focus on the great national and international problems of the world. Great Issues offers lecturers like Archibald MacLeish. Lewis Mumford, and President Conant. It gives the men of Dartmouth a common cultural experience to match the enthusiastic social solidarity fostered by for years of living and working together in Hanover...