TRUSTEES TAKE IMPORTANT ACTION

The decision to abandon the giving of the medical degree at Dartmouth; the declaration of a progressive policy for the Tuck School; the appointment of new men to fill vacancies in the instruction corps characterized the trustee meeting held in Hanover, April 26. Details of the action taken follow:

MEDICAL SCHOOL CHANGES POLICY

The Trustees of Dartmouth College, meeting in Hanover on April 26, voted, after the year 1914 to suspend, for the present, instruction in the last two, or clinical years, of the Dartmouth Medical School and to concentrate the resources of the school in teaching staff and equipment upon the first two years in medicine, which may be counted for graduation by Dartmouth College.

Students thus trained will be well qualified to enter the third year of the courses offered by the best city medical schools and may there complete their clinical preparation for the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The reason given by the trustees for this action is that because of its location the school has found difficulty in satisfactorily meeting the steadily advancing, requirements set by the medical profession for a larger and larger supply and variety of clinical material for purposes of instruction.

and larger supply and variety of clinical material for purposes of instruction. The governing boards of a number of well-known medical schools, situated at a distance from the larger centers of population, have recently taken action similar to that now taken by the trustees of Dartmouth College. The University of Wisconsin, among others, has lately discontinued clinical instruction in medicine and now sends its students elsewhere for the last two years of their medical course.

TUCK SCHOOL STRENGTHENS ITS COURSES

By the action of the trustees at their April meeting, provision was made for important changes in the policy and organization of the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance. Announcement of appointments to the teaching staff and of extensions in the curriculum, gives evidence of far-reaching plans for developing and strengthening the training which the School offers.

The policy of development authorized by the trustees looks toward closer correlation and more intensive development of study.

In furtherance of the plans of the School, provision is made at present to extend the work in business organization and management, and in commerce. Professor Person, director of the School, is relieved of his work in commercial geography that he may devote more attention to the courses in organization and management. Principles of business management, heretofore a second year course, will be given in the first year. Professor Person and Mr. Henry Woods Shelton, appointed assistant professor, will offer new, advanced courses in the application of principles of management in manufacturing and merchandising, including selling, advertising, and other specialized branches. Those courses will include laboratory experiments in motion study and other phases of scientific management. Problems of management will be studied through field work among business concerns.

Mr. Shelton, a graduate of Yale in 1904, is at present engaged in special work for the Philadelphia Bureau of Municipal Research. For two years he was associated with Morris Llewellyn Cooke, consulting engineer, in the development of scientific management in industrial plants. With previous experience as sales manager for a large manufacturing concern, Mr. Shelton brings an exceptionally thorough and successful experience to his work at Dartmouth.

Mr. Alfred L. Smith '12, Tuck School '13, is appointed instructor in commerce, relieving Professor Person of the first year course in commercial geography and assuming the development of additional courses in the field of commerce. He will give the following second year courses: Commerce of Central and South America; Methods of Conducting Import and Export Trade; Functions and Organizations of Chambers of Commerce; each of these courses to provide specialized training for men desiring preparation for positions in these fields.

Mr. Smith has written, as a special investigation for a member of the Boston Chamber of Commerce, an able thesis on "Free Ports", and has just sailed on the three months' tour of Central and South America with the Boston Chamber of Commerce party, as the representative of the Tuck School and the College. Upon his return, he will seek further material for his courses, by spending several weeks of investigation in the Boston Chamber of Commerce and in the Springfield Board of Trade.

Professor Dixon resumes his teaching in the Tuck School, by offering a special second year course in Railway Statistics, a subject closely related to his work with the Interstate Commerce Commission and with the Bureau of Railway Economics,

Owing to his appointment as assistant counset to the Investment Bankers Association of America, Professor Lyon relinquishes his work in banking, but Si continue to give courses m corporadon finance and investments, and commercial law.

* V new second year course, Banking Problems and Relations, and the courses in banking practice and foreign exchange will be conducted by Mr. Phillips of the Department of Economics, who also plans to spend some time m investigating problems and procedure of bank management.

An edition of the Tuck School announcement, shortly to be issued, will include detailed descriptions of the new courses to be offered. Announcement will also be made of the special one-year course, offered to men who hold a bachelor's degree, and consisting of a program of courses selected from the work of both the first and second years.

The announcement of the trustees' action indicates a far-sighted policy to further broaden and strengthen the training afforded by the Tuck School. The successful records of the School's graduates, and the increasing demand for their services are significant of the possibilities wisely forecasted by the founders.

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Professor Frank H. Dixon, head of the department of Economics, will return to a full schedule of teaching. Since 1910, Professor Dixon has been chief statistician of the Bureau of Railway Economics, which has its headquarters at Washington, D. C. This bureau was organized August, 1911, by the presidents of several of the larger railroad systems, and now includes in its membership two-thirds of the railroad mileage of.the country. The efficient organization of' this bureau, making possible the great service rendered by it, has been in no small measure due to the efforts of Professor Dixon. His wide experience, expert technical training, and scholarly outlook over transportation, have given him recognition as one of the leading experts and scholars in the field of railway statistical service. Having organized the statistical work of the bureau, Professor Dixon will, next year, find his personal presence in Washington less frequently necessary: hence he finds it possible to give more time to the College.

George Breed Zug, assistant professor of the History of Art at the University of Chicago, has been appointed assistant professor of Modern Art to fill the vacancy made by the resignation of Professor' Keyes, recently appointed Business Director of the College.

Professor Zug graduated from Amherst College in 1893, began advanced studies in English at Harvard, and then went abroad, where he became so interested in the history of art that he remained in Europe for six years, which time he spent in extensive study and travel. For some time resident in Florence, Rome, and Paris, he made the acquaintance of many of the best known -critics and artists, and fitted himself thoroughly to undertake the teaching of the history and criticism of art. Upon his return to America, he became a member of the faculty of the University of Chicago. He has lectured widely in the middle west, and is known as a contributor to various periodicals. Of late he has been contributing weekly letters on art topics to the Chicago Inter-Ocean.

Mr. E. D. Dickinson, a graduate of Carleton College, Northfield, Minn., Class of 1909, was appointed instructor in Political Science.

Mr. Dickinson was a member of the varsity football team, a member of the debating team, active in Y. M. C. A. work and in student organizations, and at the same time secured highest scholastic honors. He came to Dartmouth in 1910, accepting a graduate scholarship in History. After spending a year in graduate study, he was appointed instructor of History, 1910-1911. In June, 1911, he was awarded the Al aster of Arts degree. His work was of such high rank, that his Master's thesis, which was "English Opposition in Parliament during the Period of the American Revolution", was regarded by the examiners as one of the most remarkable ever submitted at Dartmouth College. His Master's thesis had a large bearing on his appointment to the Ozias Goodwin Memorial Fellowship in History and Political Science in the Graduate School of Harvard University. For the year 1912-13, Mr. Dickinson was reappointed to the same Fellowship for the second term at Harvard University.

Mr. R. Keith Hicks was appointed instructor in French.

Since Mr. Hicks graduated from Emanuel College, Cambridge, England, he has had over ten years of varied experience in secondary school teaching in England and Canada. For the past year he has been doing graduate work and teaching in the department of French at Harvard University.