FACULTY ACTIVITIES

During the last summer, Mr. J. M. Shortliffe was engaged in research work in Toronto and Quebec, relative to the administration of forest lands in Canada.

Professor Robert Fletcher, on October 14, gave an address "The Civil Engineer and the Public", before the annual convention of the V ermont Society of Engineers at Brattleboro. On October 20 to 22, Professor Fletcher was in Exeter and Farmington as sanitary inspector, and made a survey of those towns with suggestions for improvements in the sanitary conditions. At Dover, in company with the mayor of the city, he inspected the newly installed incinerator there.

At the annual meeting of the New England History Teachers' Association held in Boston, October 24, Professor Lingley was elected a member of the executive council of the association. At the same meeting Professor Foster was one of the speakers on the program, discussing the relation of history teaching in the school and college.

Professor Hardy was elected chairman of the Modern Language section of the New Hampshire State Teachers' Association at the annual meeting of the society, held at Portsmouth on October 24. Mr. J. C. Roule read a paper at this meeting on "Choses et autres sur l'enseignement de la langue française".

Professor Burton attended a meeting of the New Hampshire Classical Association at Portsmouth on October 24.

The Citizens' Association of Bellows Falls, Vt., has engaged the services of Professor Alfred Smith of the Tuck School, as an expert adviser on the civic, commercial, and industrial matters of the town. Professor Smith will spend the time from Friday to Monday of each week in Bellows Falls, and the results of his study will be made use of by the students in his classes in the Tuck School.

On November 14, Professor F. H. Dixon read a paper before the Western Economic Society in Chicago on "The Economic Significance of the Interlocking Directorates in Railway Finance".

At the November election Dean-Emeritus Charles F. Emerson was elected representative from Hanover to the state legislature.