FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Professors Robert Fletcher, J. V. Hazen, and C. A. Holden attended the annual meeting in New York of the Thayer Society on January 14, and of the American Society of Civil Engineers on January 15 and 16. In connection with the latter meeting, tours of inspection were made to the Grand Central Station and to the construction work of the Kensico Reservoir.

Professor Edwin J. Bartlett and Professor Fred P. Emery will have sabbatical leave of absence for the second semester. Professor Bartlett will be engaged in his duties, as representative to the New Hampshire state legislature. Professor and Mrs. Emery sail for Europe in February; their vacation will be spent largely in France and England.

Professor Homer E. Keyes, who was recently elected to the board of trustees of the New Hampshire Historical Society, has been chosen chairman of the Trustee Committee on Museum and Art Collections.

Echoes from the annual meetings held during the holidays by the learned societies have been heard in Hanover at the meetings of the various faculty associations. At the Social Science Club on January 8, Professor G. C. Cox read a paper entitled "The Case System in the Study and Teaching of Ethics," which he presented at the meeting of the American Philosophical Association at Columbia University. At the Ticknor Club on January 15 reports were given of the meeting at Philadelphia of the Modern Language Association, at the Dartmouth Scientific Association on the same evening the meetings at Cleveland of the American Association for the Advancement of Science were reviewed.