Several members of the faculty are engaged this year in work of a public character. Doctor Gile is on the Council of Governor Bass of New Hampshire. Professor Worthen has been appointed to the state Public Service Commission. Professor Dixon is serving as chief statistician of the Bureau of Railway Economics at Washington. Professor Updyke is a member of the New Hampshire Commission for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis.
Professor Sheldon has prepared a "Report of Recent Publications on the Theory of Thought-Processes," for the Psychological Bulletin of September, 1911. He is also the author of an artide in the Philosophical Review for May, 1911, on "Ideals of Philosophic Thought." In the same journal for November, 1911, he reviews Rehmke's ''Philosophic als Grundwissenschaft," and in the American Journal of Psychology for October, 1911, Jerusalem's. "Introduction to Philosophy."
In the Atlantic Monthly for Tune, 1911, Doctor Tucker writes on "Undergraduate Scholarship."
Doctor Boggs has contributed to the University Magazine (Montreal) for February, 1911, an article entitled "Canada and the French Canadian"; to the Political Science Quarterly for June, 1911, an article on "The Government of India," and for the AmericanPolitical Science Review, August, 1911, he writes on the "Canadian Navy and Imperial Unity."
Professor C. D. Adams has a paper in a recent number of the Transactionsof the American Philological Association, entitled "Notes on the Peace of Philocrites."
Professor Husband has recently published two articles in Classical Philology entitled "Kelts and Ligurians" and "The History of Zeta."
Professor Goldthwait has been working this past summer for the Geological Survey of Canada, studying the changes in level of the New Brunswick and Ouebec coasts. In Memoir IO of the Geological Survey of Canada he has published a paper on " An Instrumental Survey of the Shore lines of the Extinct Lakes, Algonquin and Nipissing", and to the American Journal ofScience for October, 1911, he has contributed a paper on "The Terraces and Twenty-foot Sea-cliff of the Lower St. I awrence."
Professor Lyons has written two articles for Moody's Magazine: "A Gamble in Government," March, 1911, and "Taxation of Securities in New York State," September, 1911.
Registrar Tibbetts has recently visited some of the eastern colleges for the purpose of studying the dormitory systems at the various institutions. During his absence he visited Harvard, Tufts, Williams, Columbia, Princeton, Yale, and Brown.
Professor Emery is a member of the State Educational Council. This is an advisory body to the State Superintendent of Education and has to do particularly with the curricula of secondary schools.
Professor Wicker has been asked to serve as one of the judges in the Harvard economic thesis competition held under the terms of the benefaction of the late David A. Wells. Among the other judges is Professor Young, formerly a member of the Dartmouth faculty.
Professor Bingham spoke recently before the White River Congregational Ministerial Union, at Hartford, Vermont, on "Application of Psychology to the Work of the Ministry." On November 8 he read a paper before the New Hampshire Association of Academy Teachers at Meriden, on "Teaching Pupils How to Study," and on December 2 he addressed the New England Association of College Teachers of Education at Wellesley, on "Research by Students."
Prof. John K. Lord was one of the speakers at the recent national conference of the American Society for Judicial Settlements of International Disputes. Professor Lord spoke on "The Basis of Security in International Arbitration." The meeting was held in Cincinnati and President Taft was among the speakers.
Professor Bolser was one of the speakers at a recent meeting of the Springfield Lunch Club.
Professors Hardy and Skinner were among the speakers at the annual meeting of the State Teachers' Association. There were also present at this meeting Professors Emery and W. A. Adams, and Mr. Neef and Dr. Jones of the German department.