NOTES

On the evening of April 11, Mr. W. G. Knapp, Secretary to the President, gave an illustrated talk about the College to forty men of the Dartmouth Club of Phillips Andover Academy.

Mr. W. C. Shaw and Mr. A." T. Weaver of the public speaking department have recently published a pamphlet of thirty-five pages entitled "Information for Debaters". The booklet is designed for use as a supplementary manual in connection with the usual texts of the courses in argumentation and debate.

On the afternoon of March 24, Dr. H. H. Vaughan of the University of Pennsylvania, formerly instructor in the Romance department at Dartmouth, delivered a lecture in Dartmouth Hall on "Dante's Divine Comedy".

Professor C. D. Adams, Professor H. E. Burton, and Dr. C. P. Clark attended the meeting of the New England Classical Association held during the spring recess at Worcester. Dr. Clark read a paper on "The Direct Method of Teaching Latin".

Professor W. V. Bingham attended the Conference of Experimental Psychologists held during the recess at Wesleyan University.

President and Mrs. Nichols spent the Easter recess in New York, Boston, and New Haven. In Boston, President Nichols attended the monthly meeting of the Trustee Committee on Business Administration; in New Haven, he was the guest of Professor Bumstead of the physics department of Yale College.

During the illness of Mr. A. C. Baird of the English department, his work is being carried on by Mr. Robert Barnes Rudd, a graduate of Hamilton College, 1909, and of Merton College, Oxford, 1912.