FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Professor R. L. Theller, Mr. W: C. Shaw, and Mr. A. B. Meservey acted as judges April 20 in the secondary school debating contest between Lebanon High School and Tilton Seminary.

Professor G. C. Cox addressed a suffrage meeting at Woodstock, Vermont, May 2.

Professor E. J. Bartlett was recently a guest and speaker at the annual dinner of the Lawrence (Mass.) Alumni Association. On May 1 Professor Bartlett was the speaker at the Ladies' Night Banquet of the University Club of Proctor, Vt. He attended also on May 9 the meeting of the New England Chemical Club at Northampton, Mass.

Professor E. B. Woods represented the Children's Commission of New Hampshire at a conference of workers for children of the three northern New England States (Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont) held at the New England Home for Little Wanderers, in Boston, March 31.

Under the direction of Professor E. B. Woods, there is being conducted an investigation into the completeness of birth registrations in Manchester and Nashua, and an investigation into the high infant mortality rate in Manchester. A considerable number of students in Sociology are collaborating witH" Professor Woods in working out the statistical problems in infant mortality in Manchester and other parts of the state.

Professor J. F. Colby represented both Dartmouth and the Boston University Law School at a conference of teachers of international law, held under the auspices of the American Society of International Law, at the annual meeting of the society in Washington, April 23-25. Professor F. A. Updyke, and former Professor Reeves were also present.

Professor F. A. Updyke has just completed at Johns Hopkins University, a course of lectures on the Treaty of Ghent. These lectures will, upon Professor Updyke's return from Europe next fall, be published.

Dr. Max Mueller addressed the students of Worcester Academy on German Night, May 2. His subject was, "Student Life in Germany."

Mr. Alfred Smith is a member of a committee to call together the New England manufacturers to devise means of arousing' interest in South American trade. This committee has just been appointed by the New England Association of Commercial Executives.

On June 4, Professor Robert Fletcher delivered the Commencement address at Clarkson College of Technology (J. P. Brooks '85, President) in Potsdam, New York.