The idea was to give a classroom approach to the ticklish subject of international affairs, and tie this in with courses already taught at Dartmouth. Either the New York Times or Herald Tribune is required daily reading. Visiting lecturers make up the bulk of the course, and such men as Harvard's I.A. Richards, Crane Brinton, and Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. trek New Hampshirewards each year to help prepare the Dartmouth senior for the world outside.

Mecca of study is the Backer Library, whose lone tower sticking up out of the wilderness symbolizes the School. In the lower floor of these storehouses of wise words is a reading room full of monstrous murals-monstrous both in size and content.

Drawn by a Mexican, contemporary of Diego Rivera and every bit as radical, t paintings link an old Mexican legend will up-to-date propaganda. The first pan show in screaming colors the story the white god of ancient Mexico who w last seen sinking into the sea says. "I shall return." The next panels Cotes, coming from the sea as the turned white god, which makes all t people very happy. That is until begins to rape and plunder.

From Cortes to Christ

Then Cortes becomes imperialism, sniffed in figures of war leaders and Wilson, clutching big bags of money. I last panel shows Christ, returned to ear and chopping down his cross in port for the things that were being done its name.

The mural is a mass of jumbled co and symbol. A story around the camels that no one knew what it meant Eleanor Roosevelt saw it once and marked with surprise that it was pi propaganda. But the college did not to it down, and many expect the gar work to become quite famous. "And that's to be the case," said an alumna "we want it at Dartmouth."

If it seems strange that a radical much form a background for normal a dents with the old-fashioned idea of bell close to nature, it is not strange to Dartmouth, where the usual would be out of place. Old President Whelk's motto still holds: "The voice of one crying the wilderness." And so far, no one offered to make that a chorus.