NEW FACULTY APPOINTMENTS
Since the publication of the last number of the MAGAZINE, the following new appointments to positions on the faculty have been announced:
William A. Robinson, a graduate of Bowdoin in the class of 1907, and a former graduate student at the University of Wisconsin and Yale, from the latter of which he received his doctor's degree in 1916, has been made professor of political science. Professor Robinson has been connected with the political science departments of the University of Idaho and Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. Another appointment in the same department is that of A. H. Washburn, lecturer in International Law during the term just ended, to a full professorship. Professor Washburn is a graduate of Cornell, and of Georgetown University Law School. He has been in the United States Consular Service and recently was engaged in practice as special treasury counsel in customs cases.
Dr. R. H. Jordan has been appointed professor of education. Professor Jordan is a graduate of Yale, and his experience covers several years' work in the public schools of the East and Middle West. He received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Minnesota.
Harry L. Hillman, track coach and instructor in physical education, has been promoted to an assistant professorship in, that department and was at the same time made recreational director of the college. Other appointments to assistant professorships include Dr. William S. Messer and Royal C. Nemiah in the Latin Department. Doctor Messer graduated from Cornell in 1895, and received his Ph.D. from the same institution three years ago. He comes here from Columbia, where he has been an instructor in classical philosophy. Professor Nemiah is a Yale man, class of 1912, and has also been a student at the Yale Graduate School and the University of Gôttingen. He has been an instructor in Latin at Yale.
Two members of this year's graduating class of Dartmouth are included in the list of appointments as instructors, H. N. Chad: well '19, in the Chemistry Department, and H. L. Childs 'l9 as an instructor in public speaking. Three other alumni also figure in the list, Thomas E. Steward '10, Harold E. Washburn 'lO, and Bartlett C. Shackford '17. Mr. Steward, who will be an in- structor in English, is a newspaperman of wide experience, , his positions including work with the Springfield Republican, the Minneapolis Journal, and the New OrleansTimes-Picayune. Mr. Washburn is to be an instructor in French, while Mr. Shackford will teach anatomy.
Other appointments as instructors in English include: J. G. Neafie Mitchell, Trinity, A.B. 1916, A.M. 1917; Hewette E. Joyce, Yale, A.B. 1912, A.M. 1915; John B. Moore, Harvard, A.B. 1915, University of Washington, A.M. 1917; Irving C. Story, New Hampshire State College, B.S. 1915, Cornell, A.M. 1919; William B. Pressey, Trinity, A.B. 1915, Harvard A.M. 1916. George Raffalovitch, a former student at French universities, and author and translator, has been appointed lecturer in the French Department.
