FACULTY NOTES

On June 9 and 10, Professor Robert Fletcher attended the fiftieth anniversary of his class at West Point.

Professor W. C. Shaw delivered a patriotic address at the Fourth of July celebration in Norwich, Vermont.

Professor S. G. Patterson of the French Department was a member of the faculty of the Columbia Summer Session this summer, giving courses in Spanish.

The following members of the faculty attended the Students' Army Training Corps camp at Plattsburg Barracks from July 15 to September 15: Professors E. F. Clark, W. C. Shaw, A. B. Meservey, Messrs. J. S. Pickett, P. J. Kaney, C. F. Echterbecker, and Dr. C. H. Forsyth.

Captain Louis Keene, C. E. F., who was the officer in charge of military instruction in the College last year, has sufficiently recovered from the wounds which he received in the battle of Ypres to return to the front. He sailed from Montreal during the latter part of July.

Professor F. L. Childs delivered the historical address at the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the town of Henniker, New Hampshire, on August 19.

Harry Hillman, varsity track coach, who was commissioned a first lieutenant in the Sanitary Corps in July, has been detailed to the aviation section of the Army at Hazel-hurst Field, Mineola, Long Island, where he will have charge of the physical training of the aviators.

Librarian N. L. Goodrich, who has been given a captains commission, is engaged in map work in the office of the chief of staff in the State, War and Navy Building in Washington.

Professor G. F. Hull has been commissioned a major in the Ordnance Department, and is now at work in Washington.

Professor E. F. Clark, one of the men selected at Plattsburg for special training in personnel work, has been given a second lieutenant's commission. He is at present stationed at the University of Rochester.

Professor W. R. Gray, who for the past year has been acting director of the Tuck School, went to Washington on October 1 to take charge of a division of the War Department which is organizing and operating the accounting of the business arrangements between the War Department and the colleges having units of the S. A. T. C.

Professor F. P. Emery has been lent by Dartmouth for the present year to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is acting in the capacity of Advisory Professor in the planning and conduct of a sophomore course in history and literature; he is also assisting in the conduct of the course on the Issues of War as given there.

Professor W. H. Sheldon, who has been granted leave of absence for the year, is engaged in teaching at New York University.

Professor-Emeritus J. F. Colby has been summoned to conduct a special course on international law in the S. A. T. C. at Boston University Law School.

Mr. H. G. Rugg, acting librarian, represented the Dartmouth College library at a meeting of the New Hampshire War Work Council in Manchester on September 24.

At the annual assembly of the Boston alumni at the Boston City Club on the evening of October 26, the speakers included President Hopkins, Business Director H. E. Keyes, Graduate Manager H. G. Pender, and Professor J P. Richardsoh.

Professor E. Gordon Bill has, in accordance with a recent order of the Governor-General of Canada, been appointed to the newly created office of assistant to the Director, Military Service Branch of the Canadian Department of Justice.

Professor John W. Young has gone to New York for three months' service as Director of Instruction in Mathematics with the Educational Bureau of the Y. M. C. A. His work will be that of organizing and standardizing the mathematical work undertaken by the Y. M. C. A. Educational Department in camp and abroad.