FACULTY NOTES

President Hopkins was the principal speaker at the opening of the Forty-Fourth Annual Convention of the New Hampshire State Sunday School Association, held in Lebanon October 10-12. Other speakers included Professor W. H. Wood and Professor J. L. McCon-aughy.

Professor F. M. Anderson gave courses on recent European history and on the World War at the Summer Session of Boston University.

Dr. P. G. Clapp is giving a series of lectures on Saturday mornings throughout the first semester at Boston University. The subject of Dr. Clapp's course is "Modern Orchestral Music."

For the National Board for Historical Service Professor H. D. Foster has organized in New Hampshire the contest among public school teachers for $300 in prizes for the best essays on the subject, "Why the United States Is at War." Professor F. M. Anderson is chairman of the board of judges for this contest.

On "Dartmouth Night", October 12, Professor C. E. Bolser addressed the Dartmouth Club of Hartford, Conn.; Professor F. L. Childs, the Dartmouth Alumni Association of Merrimack County, at Concord; and Professor W. C. Shaw, the Dartmouth Lunch Club of Springfield, Mass.

Dr. P. G. Clapp has composed the music to accompany the dramatic scenes in an historical pageant written by Mr. W. C. Langdon, in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Massachusetts Agricultural College.

Dean Laycock gave the principal address at the annual dinner of the New Hampshire Schoolmasters' Club in Manchester on October 18. His subject was "Dartmouth College and the War."

Professors A. K. Hardy, J. L. Mc-Conaughy, L. B. Richardson, and Mr. J. C. Roulé were in attendance at the annual meeting of the New Hampshire State Teachers' Association held in Manchester on October 19. Professor Richardson addressed the Science Section of the Association on "Entrance Requirements in Chemistry," and Mr. Roulé, assisted by Miss Pratt of Concord, read a play in French to the French Section. Professor McCon-aughy was elected a member of the Executive Committee of the State Educational Council.

Under the auspices of the College Extension Club of Concord, N. H., Professor F. L. Childs is delivering on successive Thursday evenings from October 25 to December 5 a series of lectures on "Six Nineteenth Century Poets."

Professor W. H. Wood represented the College at a Y. M. C. A. conference held in Concord, N, H., on October 18.

Professor A. H. Basye, who spent the last academic year in graduate study at Yale and received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from that institution in June, taught two courses in English History in the Summer Session of the University of Kansas. Professor Basye is still on leave of absence for the first semester of this year, and is teaching in the University of Michigan.