PROFESSOR OF EDUCATION APPOINTED

Dr. James L. McConaughy, Professor of Education and English at Bowdoin, has been appointed Professor of Education and executive secretary of the Committee on Admission at Dartmouth. Professor McConaughy received the degree of A.B. from Yale in 1909; of A.M. from Bowdoin in 1911; and of Ph.D. in Education from Columbia in 1913. In addition to his teaching activities at Bowdoin, Professor McConaughy has also served in the position of Acting Dean. His work at Dartmouth will begin at the opening of the next college year.

The appointment of Professor McConaughy is of far-reaching significance, for through it the College hopes 'to bring itself into closer relationship with the secondary schools of New England and particularly of New Hampshire. Professor McConaughy will not only extend and broaden the work of the present courses in Education, but he will also, as executive secretary of the Committee on Admission, come into direct and personal contact with the superintendents, principals, and teachers of secondary schools from which the College accepts students by certificate. In this way the College will be enabled to carry out the policy which it formulated at the time of its withdrawal last spring from the New England College Euntrance Certificate Board; namely, that of drawing up its own entrance requirements and of considering problems of admission in a more intimate manner than could be done by a formal certificate board. Professor McConaughy will also become director of the Summer Session; in this position it will be his aim to make the Session of wider service to secondary school teachers. The alumni as well as the faculty and officers of administration of the College will watch with interest this new attempt at a solution of the difficult problem of admission to college.