FACULTY ACTIVITIES

During the Christmas recess many members of the faculty took the opportunity to attend the meetings of the learned societies of which they were members.

The American Mathematical Society met in New York with Professors Young and Haskins and Mr. Dines present. Professor Young read papers on "Algebras Defined by Groups of Transformations" : and "On a Generalization to 3-space and to n-space of the Inversion Geometry of a Plane." Professor Haskins read a paper on "Notes on Selective Integrals."

At the sessions of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, Professors Bartlett, F. P. Lord, and Chivers, and Messrs, Stetson and Meservey were present. Professor Bartlett was also present at the meetings of the American Chemical Association; Professor Lord at the sessions of the Association of American Anatomists, and Mr. Stetson at those of the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America.

Professors Fletcher and Hazen attended the meetings of the Thayer Engineering Society and the American Society of Civil Engineers in New York.

Professor Bingham was present at the combined meeting in Washington, of the American Psychological Association and the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology.

Professor Gerould attended the meetings of the American Society of Naturalists and the American Society of Zoologists at Princeton.

The Modern Language Association held its meetings in Chicago. Dartmouth was represented by Professors Emery, W. A. Adams, Hardy, and Skinner, and Messrs. Neef and Vaughn.

Before the American Historical Association at Ithaca, Professor Foster discussed "The Political Theories of the Calvinists" and in Buffalo he attended a meeting of the Historical Manuscripts Commission. Mr. Lawrence was also at Ithaca and Buffalo.

Professor W. H. Sheldon read a paper on "The Philosophy of Chance" before the American Philosophical Association at Cambridge.

Professors Person and Wicker were present at the meeting of the American Economic Association in Washington. Professor Person acted as chairman of. a round-table conference on "Industrial Efficiency and the Interests of Labor." He also lectured recently on "Scientific Management" before the Board of Trade, Northampton, Mass.

Professor H. E. Keyes presented a paper before the Archaeological Institute of America on "A Byzantine Madonna at the Princeton Art Museum."

Professor Husband was present at the meetings of the Philological Association in Pittsburg.

Professor W. K. Stewart is one of the advisory board of editors of the "German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries" to be published in twenty volumes by the Current Literature Publishing Company.

Professor C. F. Richardson, who retired from, active work on the faculty last June, will devote some years to writing a "History of American Periodical Literature from Colonial Times to the End of the Nineteenth Century."

Professor Emery was the representative of Dartmouth at a recent meeting of the New England Association on College Entrance Requirements in English. The purpose of the meeting was to decide the entrance requirements in English for 1916, 1917, and 1918. Professor Emery has been elected the delegate of the new England colleges to the National Convention on Entrance Requirements in English. This convention will meet in New York the latter part of February.