FACULTY ACTIVITIES

Professor George B. Zug, who is on leave of absence from Dartmouth, has recently given two lectures before the Brooklyn Institute. They were "Art and the War" and "What pictures to have in the home and why." He also lectured recently in Providence, R. I., on the subject, "Fighting the Kaiser with brush and pencil," and before the Columbia University Institute of Arts and Sciences on "Cartoons of the War and Great Buildings in the War Zone."

Prof. F. H. Dixon is a member of the executive committee of the newly-formed New Hampshire branch of the League of Free Nations.

At the annual conference of the Association of Biblical Instructors in American Colleges and Secondary Schools held at Columbia University during the Christmas recess Professor W. H. Wood spoke on "How to Teach the Bible in the New Age." At the meeting of the New Hampshire State Sunday School convention held in Manchester in December Professor Wood gave an address on "The New Appeal for Religion in Education." At the meeting of the board of trustees of the Northern New England School of Religious Education held at White River Junction December 1, Professor Wood was elected chairman and treasurer.

In recognition of his services in behalf of outdoor life in the White Mountains and elsewhere, Professor J. W. Goldthwait was awarded recently a medal by the Dartmouth Outing Club. Professor Goldthwait is the second person to receive this "Conservation Medal" of the Outing Club.

Dr. Philip Greeley Clapp, former director of music in Dartmouth College, has just returned from overseas service. Dr. Clapp was bandmaster in the 73rd regiment of artillery and held a commission as lieutenant. Most of Dr. Clapp's time was spent in places around the Marne, where daily concerts were given for the troops. '