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STATISTICS OF THE DARTMOUTH FACULTY

March 1917
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STATISTICS OF THE DARTMOUTH FACULTY
March 1917

According to statistics recently compiled, the academic faculty of Dartmouth, exclusive of officers of administration, professors emeritus and teachers in the associated schools, consists of ninety-nine men. Of the thirty-four full professors, eleven are Dartmouth men, of the twenty-nine assistant professors, twelve are Dartmouth men, of the thirty-six instructors, eleven arc Dartmouth men. Thirty-four or nearly one-third of the total faculty are thus seen to be Dartmouth graduates. These ninety-nine men have received bachelors' degrees from thirty-four colleges and universities. Thirty-four received this degree from Dartmouth, thirteen from Harvard, four from Amherst, three each from Yale, Cornell, and Toronto, and two each from University of Michigan, Wesleyan, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University, Acadia, University of Missouri, Northwestern, Albion, and one each from Leland Stanford University, Boston University, Brown, University of Minnesota, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, University of Kansas, Chicago, Beloit, Central, Carleton, Vanderbilt, University of Tennessee, Hamilton, Johns Hopkins, Tufts, Bowdoin, Butler, Cambridge England, Ecole Pratique de Commerce, Boulogne-sur-mer, France, and the Imperial Law School of Constantinople. There are twenty men in the graduate schools, Medical, Thayer and Tuck Schools, who are instructing Dartmouth undergraduates. This number added to the academic faculty of ninety-nine makes a total of 119 men teaching 1501 students, or one faculty member to twelve and one-half students.

Eighty-two of the ninety-nine members of the academic faculty hold advanced degrees granted by twenty-six different colleges and universities. Those not holding advanced degrees are young instructors in their first term of service. Most of these are working for masters' degrees or expect soon to take leave of absence for that purpose. Twenty-three of the faculty have taken their advanced degrees from Harvard, eleven from Dartmouth, six each from Chicago and Yale, five from Princeton, four each from Columbia and Cornell, three each from Michigan and Illinois, and one each from Wisconsin, Stamford, Johns Hopkins, Clark, Brown, Union Theological Seminary, Minnesota, .Kansas, North-western, and Vermont. Eight others hold advanced degrees from .foreign universities as follows: two each from Oxford and Leipsig, one each from Goettingen, Geneva, Kiel, and Cambridge.