FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

"The Bible and College Culture. I. From the Point of View of the Professor," by former Professor B. T. Marshall is published in Religious Education for October, 1917.

"War Administration of the Railways of the United States and Great Britain," by Prof. F. H. Dixon and Julius H. Parmelee, has just been issued by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

"America's (Bad) Debt to Germany," by Prof. James L. McConaughy, was published in the Boston Transcript, February 2, 1918.

Rambles in Old College Towns by Hildegarde Hawthorne, published by Dodd, Mead & Co.

Rambles in Old College Towns is an interesting, chatty, volume dealing with sixteen American Colleges of the East, from Virginia to Maine. Chapter ten of this volume is entitled "Dartmouth and Hanover." Although Miss Hawthorne's knowledge of Dartmouth was apparently quickly gained and some of her statements not authentic, she paints an interesting picture of the college and its surroundings which seem to have impressed her very favorably. Miss Hawthorne writes as if she visited Hanover last spring when the whole college was engaged in military drill. The following quotation will suffice to show something of the author's style:

"And yet the lovely campus, the beautiful buildings, the yard, the encircling hills, the wide and serene river, remain untouched and calm,—shrouded in the dying light of a purple evening when first we looked about us; they make war seem a monstrous impossibility; a thing too far and foreign from all this exquisite peace and fragrant beauty to be believable.

"And the war will pass, and Dartmouth will be here, on her plateau, and the students will once more crowd her dormitories and hasten to Chapel in the morning, and play games again on her Athletic' Field. It is a comforting thought. And perhaps this is truly the last time in the history of the world that the young men from America's schools and colleges, from her fields and hills and cities, her workshops and factories, will ever have to go out to war. These boys, whom we had watched from Virginia" to Maine and saw again at Dartmouth marching and counter-maching to the call of the bugle, these boys, some of whom were never to come back to alumni meetings and to talk of the old days, might perhaps be the last sacrifices on the fierce and bloody altar.

"But Dartmouth is the college of the wild place's, and the strength of the hills encompasses her. Nature is her sister, her close ally. The terrible fact that men have not yet learned to settle their human affairs without war stands out in naked horror against that background. Until all have learned it, the lesson must go on. But it was infinitely touching, on that spring evening, to see again the splendid young manhood of the country making itself ready to teach that lesson, whatsoever the cost."

The most glaring mistakes in the Dartmouth chapter, which, by the way, is illustrated with a drawing of the old row by John Seaford, are found in hopeless confusion of the dormitories, the mention of Elm House, long used as college faculty house, as a dormitory, the mention of the "Paleopilies, the most important society in Dartmouth," and the reference to Eleanor Wheelock as the founder of the college.