Several members of the faculty and administrative force of the College for last year have entered upon active war service. A few of these men have resigned, but most of them have been granted leave of absence and expect to return to their duties at the College when the war is over.
Professor H. S. Person, Director of the Tuck School, continues as Associate of the Stores Committee of the General Munitions Board, in charge of personnel, at Washington. Professor R. W. Husband, of the department of Greek, also continues in the position to which he went last spring, that of Secretary of the Committee of Public Safety for the State of New Hampshire. He has full charge of the management of the headquarters of the Committee in Concord, and he has recently extended his activities to include supervision of clerical service for the draft board of the State. Dr. Percy Bartlett is in active service in the Medical Corps, and Dr. H. N. Kingsford has received his commission as Captain in the Medical Reserve Corps, but has not yet been called for active service. Professor Curtis Hidden Page, of the English Department, who has qualified both as interpreter and as stores manager in the Quartermaster's Department, is awaiting government orders. Mr. W. H. Loveland, also of the English department, is a sergeant in the Quartermaster's Service, and Mr. M. J. Files, of the same department, is in the Ordnance Department, at present taking his intensive training at the Watertown Arsenal. Mr. E. B. Hartshorn of the Chemistry department is engaged in research work on poisonous gases in the laboratory of the Bureau of Mines at Washington. Mr. David Hitchcock, also of the Chemistry department, is now a private in the Connecticut Field Artillery. Mr. R. Klo-kow, an assistant in the Registrar's of- fice, and Mr. J. J. Healy, an assistant in the Treasurer's office, are both now in service in the Ordnance Department.