Trustees Appoint Faculty Members

The annual Commencement meeting of the trustees was held as usual in Hanover, the work consisting largely of making appointments to fill vacancies in the faculty for the ensuing year. A measure of large importance, however, was the decision of the board that, henceforth, meetings of the trustees shall be held in Hanover. Hitherto a considerable part of the meetings have been held either in Boston or in Concord. The declared intention of submitting to the inconvenience of the longer journey to Hanover is but another indication that the Dartmouth trustees accept their office as a responsibility entailing active work rather than an empty honor.

A minute expressing the regret of the trustees at the untimely death of Professor Wells and conveying sympathy to his bereaved family was adopted.

The gift of $500 from Dr. Edward H. Peaslee of New York for the purpose of fitting up a library and reading room in the Nathan Smith laboratory of the Medical School was accepted.

In addition to faculty appointments already noted in THE MAGAZINE, the following were ratified:

James Walter Goldthwait, Ph.D., assistant professor of geology promoted to be Hall Professor of Geology.

Curtis Hidden Page, Ph.D., professor of English on the Winkley Foundation. The appointment of Professor Page is a notable one, because of both the character of the position,—that left vacant by Professor Richardson—and of the man chosen to fill it. Professor Page was born in Greenwood, Missouri, in 1870. His father was Benjamin Greely Page, a Dartmouth graduate in the class of 1861. Professor Page is a Harvard man, having received from the University the degree of A.B. in 1890, A.M. in 1891, and Ph.D. in 1894. He subsequently spent a year at the University of Paris, and at the Institute of Higher Studies in Florence, Italy. His field of teaching and of investigation has been wide. Having given instruction in French at Western' Reserve University and at Harvard in 1895, he ..went to Columbia as lecturer in Romance languages and literature, subsequently becoming professor in these subjects, as well as professor of English in extension teaching. In 1909, he went to Northwestern University as professor of English literature. As a writer and lecturer he is widely known. A man of high attainments, of attractive personality, and strong fibre as a teacher, Professor Page should be a valued addition to the Dartmouth faculty. Leave of absence is granted him for the coming year. He will assume his new duties in the fall of 1912.

John Wesley Young, Ph.D., professor of mathematics on the Chandler foundation. Professor Young's appointment, being, again, to one of the higher grades of the faculty is of unusual interest. Professor Young graduated from Ohio State University in 1899. Five years later he received his Ph.D. from Cornell. He has been instructor in mathematics at Cornell and at Northwestern; preceptor at Princeton 1905-1908; assistant professor of mathematics at the University of Illinois 1908-1910; professor and head of the department of mathematics at the University of Kansas 1910-1911. He is the author of a work on "Projective Geometry," of "Lectures' on Fundamental Concepts of Algebra and Geometry," and of numerous magazine articles, among them several reviews and translations.

Henry Andrew Doak, A.M., instructor in English. Mr. Doak is graduate of Guilford and of Haverford Colleges, and received his A.M. from Harvard. He has had experience as a teacher of various subjects, notably that of English.

Roy Wilson Follett, A.8., instructor in English. Mr. Follett is a graduate of Harvard. He has been instructor in English at the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas since 1909.

Earl Lockridge Bradsher, structor in English. Dr. Bradsher is a graduate of the University of Missouri 1903. He received his doctor's degree from Columbia in 1911. He has been instructor in.English at the University of Missouri and at the University of Illinois.

Holmes Beckwith, M.L., instructor in economics. Mr. Beckwith is a graduate of the University of California, 1908. He has since carried on his studies at California, at the Pacific Theological Seminary, and at Columbia,

Henry Wells Lawrence, Jr., Ph.D., instructor in history. Dr. Lawrence is a graduate of Yale 1906. He received his doctorate from the same institution, 1910. He has acted as assistant in history at Yale and during the past year was professor pro tempore of history at the University of Vermont.

A. B. Meservey, instructor in physics. Mr. Meservey graduated from Dartmouth in 1906; taught at the "Gunnery" School 1906-1907; was assistant and graduate student in physics at Dartmouth 1907-08. In the latter year he won the Rhodes Scholarship from New Hampshire at Oxford where he has been pursuing, studies during the past three years, and where he has received a research degree.