RESIGNATION OF PROFESSOR DIXON

Professor Frank Haigh Dixon of the economics department has resigned his position to become Professor of Transportation at Princeton University, his resignation to take effect in June. His new work will be much like that with which he has been engaged here, dealing with transportation and corporation finance, but will be largely in the graduate school. Although the alumni extend to him their heartiest wishes for success in the new and larger field he now enters, they will be deeply conscious of the great loss to Dartmouth in his departure.

Professor Dixon, who is a graduate of the University of Michigan, came to Dartmouth as Assistant Professor in Economics in 1898. In 1903 he was promoted to a professorship. From 1900 to 1904 he acted as Secretary of the Tuck School, and the larger part of his teaching has been in that school. In the twenty-one years during which he has been associated with the college he has shown himself to be an excellent teacher and an invaluable executive, serving constantly on many and important committees.

Few members of the faculty are more widely known outside the college than Professor Dixon. He is the author of a volume, "State Railway Control", and of numerous monographs, statistical bulletins, and articles and reviews on corporations and transportation in a large number of technical and popular periodicals. He acted as an expert for the United States Census in 1902; for the United States Census on Valuation of Railroads in 1904: for the Bureau of Statistics and Accounts, Interstate Commerce Commission in 1907-8; for the National Waterways Commission in 1909-10. Since 1910 he has served as Chief Statistician for the Bureau of Railway Economics at Washington. Last year he held a place on the United States Shiping Board and was a member of the Committee of Public Safety in New Hampshire. At present he is a member of the executive committee of the League of Free Nations Association of New Hampshire and of the National Council of the Association.

His letter of resignation given below, will prove of interest to the alumni.

"April 15, 1919.

"Dear President Hopkins:-

"I present to you herewith my resignation as Professor of Economics in Dartmouth College, to take effect at the close of present academic year.

"This action is taken with extreme reluctance, and only after a most trying period of consideration. But the insistent call of professional opportunity could not be withstood. The fact that I have been associated with the Department of Economics ever since it attained to an independent existence in 1898, combined with the fact that in these twentyone years I have struck my roots deep into the life of the College and the Community make my departure a very sad one to me.

"May I express through you to the Trustees my very deep gratitude for the unfailing consideration that they have shown me during your administration and in those of your predecessors, both in generous support and encouragement in the Development of the Department, and in the liberty granted me personally to preserve contacts outside the College.

"And may I express to you personally my deep admiration for the leadership you are displaying in your administration, and my keen regret that I cannot be a participant in the large output that your vital and progressive personality will surely obtain.

"With confidence that the College under your guidance will increase in prosperity and in public usefulness, I am, "With best wishes,

"Sincerely yours,

"FRANK HAIGH DIXON."