FACULTY NOTES

Professors N. E. Gilbert, G. F. Hull, and A. B. Meservey of the Physics Department, attended the joint meetings of the American Physical Society and the American Association for Advancement of Science which were held at Pittsburgh during the Christmas recess. Professor Gilbert was re-elected for 1918 to the presidency of the Gamma Alpha graduate scientific fraternity. Professor Hull was elected a member of the Council of the American Physical Association.

Eleven members of the College faculty, Professors W. A. Adams, F. L. Childs, F. P. Emery, E. R. Greene, F. E. Guyer, A. K. Hardy, R. W. Jones, F. J. Neef, S. G. Patterson, P. O. Skinner, and W. K. Stewart, attended the meetings of the Modern Language Association of America at Yale University during the Christmas recess. Professor E. R. Greene also attended the meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Spanish at the College of the City of New York.

Professor C. A. Holden was present from January 14 to 18 at meetings of the Thayer Society and the American Society of Civil Engineers in New York City.

Professors C. D. Adams and L. R. Dean attended the meeting of the American Philological Association in Philadelphia, from December 27 to 29. Professor Dean presented a paper entitled "The Consuls During the Principate of Augustus."

Professor F. A. Updyke was in attendance at the meetings of the American Political Science Association from December 27 to 29 in Philadelphia.

Professor J. W. Young attended the meetings and Council of the American Mathematical Society in New York City on December 28 and 29 at which he was elected vice-president of the Mathematical Association of America, and was re-elected a member of the Committee on Publication of the same society.

The meeting of the American Historical Association at Philadelphia on December 27 to 29 was attended by Professors F. M. Anderson, H. D. Foster, and W. H. Wood. Professor Foster, as a member of the committee on history in schools, was elected as speaker to discuss the report of the committee. Professor Wood was also present at the meetings of the American Archaeological Association in Philadelphia, and of the Association of Biblical Teachers of America in New York. At the latter meeting he read a paper on "Present Relations Between the Bible and Science Departments." On Thursday evening, January 3, he addressed the men in training at Camp Merritt, N. J.

Professor E. J. Bartlett attended a conference of biological chemists at the Chemists' Club in New York, on December 31.

Professor J. L. McConaughy attended the conference of the Strafford County Teachers' Association on January 11 at Dover, N. H., where he addressed the meeting on "Habit and Memory in the Schoolroom."

Professor J. W. Goldthwaite, head of the Geology Department, who has recently been employed in making a survey for the state of the available road materials in New Hampshire, spoke in Keene, January 9, on the subject, "Rocks and Gravel for New Hampshire Roads."