MANY FACULTY MEMBERS AT MEETINGS OF SOCIETIES

Meetings of learned societies held during the Christmas recess were attended by many members of the Dartmouth faculty, several of whom delivered papers. At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Professors W. A. Adams, Bruerton, Guyer, Hardy, and Joyce were present at the meeting of the Modern Language Association. Professors Keir and Rice attended the meeting of the American Economic Association at Atlantic City. At the meetings of the American Physical Society and the.American Optical Society held in Chicago, A. Ames, Jr., read two papers, "The Nature of the Retinal Image," and "Systems of Color Standards," and Professor C. A. Proctor, of the Physics Department, gave a paper on "Measurements of the Aberrations of the Eye." Professor L. B. McWhood, of the Department of Music was elected counselor of the Music Teachers' Association of America for the coming year, at their convention, held also in Chicago. In Washington, Professor F. M. Anderson and Mr. L. D. Stillwell attended the meetings of the American Historical Association and Professors Bruce, Robinson, A. H. Washburn and May were present at the American Political Science Association's meeting. Meetings were held in New York by the National Association of Teachers of Speech which Professor Winans attended, and the American Philosophy Association, where Professors Urban and Wright, of the Department of Philosophy, and Professor Mecklin of the Sociology Department represented the College. Professor C. H. Forsyth was also in New York at the meetings of the American Mathematics Society. At Baltimore Professors Burton and Messer attended the meeting of the American Philological Association where Mr. Messer gave a paper, entitled, "A Possible Source of the Dream in Pindar's Fourth Pythian." Professor Burton also represented the College at the meet' ing of the Advisory Committee of the American Society for Classical Study at Rome. The meeting of the Botanical Society of America was attended by Professor A. H. Olivers, of the Biology Department.