RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR SMITH AND DOCTOR LAWRENCE

Professor Alfred L. Smith leaves the Tuck School February first to become manager of the Industrial Bureau of The Merchants' Association of New York which is the largest organization of its kind in the world, having over 5000 members and an annual income from dues of over a quarter of a million dollars. As one of his first problems as' manager of the Industrial Bureau, Professor Smith will begin a resurvey of the industries of New York for the purpose of ascertaining the changes which have been caused by the war, and of determining methods of meeting after-war conditions.

Professor Smith was graduated from the College in 1912 and from the Tuck School in 1913. In the spring of 1913 he was sent to South America by the School to study Latin America trade conditions, and upon his return took charge of the work in commerce in the Tuck School. The effectiveness of his instruction in commercial organization work has secured recognition throughout the country, especially the development of "clinical work," whereby students have performed under Professor Smith's direction actual secretarial service in such merchants' associations as those of Bellows Falls, St. Johnsbury and Lebanon. Mr. James P. Taylor, Secretary of the Greater Vermont Association, and of the Burlington Board of Trade, will succeed Professor Alfred L. Smith as instructor in, and supervisor of, commercial organization practice in the Tuck School.

Mr. Taylor is a son of Professor James M. Taylor, Professor of Mathematics at Colgate University, and is a graduate of that institution. After graduate work at Harvard and Columbia Universities and in Germany, Mr. Taylor taught history, first at Colgate Academy and later at Vermont, Academy. Four years ago he gave up work as a teacher to promote association work in Vermont. The Greater Vermont Association was conceived, started, and has been developed by Mr. Taylor, and is a concrete evidence of executive ability directed by the spirit of service to the community.

Dr. Henry Wells Lawrence, instructor in History, has accepted a position as head of the department of History at Middlebury College, and will begin his work there at the beginning of the second semester this year. Dr. Lawrence graduated from Yale in 1906 and investigation in Paris, took his degree and assistant and a period devoted to investigation in Paris, he took his degree of Ph. D. in 1910 and that year taught in the University of Vermont. He became instructor in history in Dartmouth in 1911.

He has been a member of the faculty advisory committee of the Dartmouth Christian Association and has shown his keen and helpful interest in the moral welfare as well as the intellectual development of undergraduates. He spent one summer in Pittsburg in charge of recreation work for boys and has devoted time to the study of social history in which he is especially interested.

He has been a very loyal Dartmouth man and a devoted teacher who has served the best interests of the college with deserved success.