FACULTY NOTES

The extent to which members of the faculty engage in governmental and public service of various kinds is indicated by the following tabulation, which covers the last ten years:

Professor Emerson, inspector of the check list for fifteen years.

Professor Worthen, police judge; member of State Legislature, 1905-1906; member of Public Utilities Commission of New Hampshire.

Professor Bartlett, town moderator, 1906—.

Professor Colby, delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1902 ; editor of New Hampshire Manual for Constitutional Convention, 1902 and 1912.

Professor Hazen, supervisor and superintendent of section of state highway construction, 1911; precinct commissioner, 1901-1910; member of school committee of town of Hanover, 1906—.

Profesor Burton, police judge, 1911—.

Professor Wicker, special agent of United States Census Bureau, 1909-1910; expert assistant in valuation of New Hampshire railroad property, 1910-1911.

Professor Dixon, expert statistician for Interstate Commerce Commission, 1907-1908, and also for the United States Census Bureau, 1902-1907.

Professor Updyke, member of the New Hampshire Anti-Tuberculosis Commission, 1911; delegate to New Hampshire Constitutional Convention, 1912.

Professor Gilbert, assistant astronomer of United States Naval Observatory Eclipse Expedition to North Carolina, 1900, to Sumatra, 1901, to Algeria, 1905; temporary assistant Astro-physical Observatory, Smithsonian Institute.

Professor Goldthwait, work on geological survey for the Canadian government, 1908, 1909, and 1911; expert mineralogist in connection with state highway construction.

Doctor Kings ford, director of New Hampshire Laboratory of Hygiene; precinct commissioner, 1910—.

Professor Persons, expert statistician in the employ of the Bureau of Corporations, 1908-1909.

Doctor Gile, member of the Governor's Council, 1911-1913.

Professor Fletcher, member of State Board of Health; expert in bridge and water works construction.

Professor Hardy attended the meeting of the New England Modern Language Association in Boston on May 4. His paper on German Readers read at the meeting of the Modern Language section of the State Teachers' Association in Concord last October will be printed in the report of that association which is to appear shortly. Professor Hardy, who is on sabbatical leave for the second semester of this academic year, sailed for Europe the latter part of May.

Mr. Charles P. Chase, treasurer of the College, has been elected president of the Mascoma Light and Power Company. This company is a new holding corporation formed by a merger of the Hartford Water Power Company and the Mascoma Gas and Electric Light Company.

Doctor Tucker was present at the inauguration of President Hibben of Princeton.

Mr. Goodrich attended recently the joint meeting of the New Jersey and Pennsylvania Library Association at Atlantic City. These meetings are of such importance that they constitute in effect a gathering of the eastern section of the American Library Association. Mr. Goodrich also attended the meeting of the New England College Librarians, held at Tufts College.

Professor Updyke has prepared a booklet on "The Short Ballot Principle in New Hampshire." Doctor Tucker is the president of the New Hampshire Short Ballot Organization. : Among others on the advisory board are Professors J. K. Lord and Worthen and Mr. Frank S. Streeter of Concord, trustee of the College.

Professor Dixon is a contributor to the "Cyclopjedia of American Government" of articles on technical aspects of railroad management and operation. The titles of the articles follow: "Traffic Agreements," "Differentials in Railroad Traffic," "Physical Valuation of Railroads," "Bill of Lading," "Discrimination in Railroad Rates," "Classification of Freight Transportation," "Gentlemen's Agreements," "Long and Short Hauls," "Merger of Railroads," "Pooling in Railroads," "Regulation of Pullman Cars," "Rebates in Transportation," "Uniformity of Railroad Accounts."