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Professor Arthur S. Dewing, of the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, spoke before the Tuck School class in Business Organization, October 21.

Professor C. A. Holden, Director of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering, attended the National Conference on Highway Engineering held at Washington October 26, 27, and 28. Mr. Holden, while in Washington, addressed a meeting of Dartmouth and Thayer School Alumni October 25, and spoke at a meeting of alumni in Baltimore October 28.

Members of the Chi Phi fraternity entertained the faculty of the college at a reception in the Chi Phi House, October 22.

Professor W. S. Messer, of the Latin Department, addressed members of the Arts October 26, on "An Archaeological Promenade in Africa," relating personal experiences in rarely visited parts of Tunisia and Algiers.

Professor W. K. Stewart spoke at the meeting of the Tuck School Clearing House, October 31. Professor Stewart spoke on "Fiction," a subject in which the course in Salesmanship is particularly interested.

Opening the extension course being conducted in Brattleboro by the Department of English, Professor J. D. McCallum addressed teachers enrolled in the course on "Anglo-Saxon Literature to Chaucer," October 31. On November 7, Professor McCallum spoke on "Chaucer and His Contemporaries," Professor H. E. Joyce spoke November 14 on "Elizabethan Poetry," and on November 21 on "Milton and the Puritans," and on November 28, Professor C. H. Page spoke on "The Earlier Romanticists."

At a public meeting of the Dartmouth Scientific Society held November 1, Professor Norman E. Gilbert gave an interesting talk on "The Thermionic Tube and Its Application to the Radio."

"Some Advantages of Philosophical Training for Study of Social Sciences" was the subject of an address given November 2, by Professor Mecklin, of the Department of Sociology at a meeting of the Philosophical Club.

The annual series of English Department readings was opened November 3, by Professor H. E. Joyce who read from the works of O. Henry.

On November 2 Mr. George W. Laine, of the Monroe Calculating Machine Company gave a demonstration of the calculating machine at the Thayer School.

"Railway Electrification" a moving picture made by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company was exhibited at the Thayer School November 3.

An explanatory recital based upon the program to be given by the Boston Symphony Orchestra was given by the Department of Music November 4.

Selections from French authors of the 19th century were read by Professors Roule and Wood, of the Department of French, at a meeting of Cercle Francais, November 2.

A reception for Pierre Monteux, conductor and Richard Burgen, concert master of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, was given by members of The Arts, following the concert of the Orchestra in Webster Hall, November 5.

Bremer W. Pond '07 spoke November 4 to the course on City planning given under the direction of the Department of Modern Art, his subject being "Parks and Park Development."

Dr. Alejandro E. Bunge, Professor of Commerce and Statistics at the National University of Buenos Aires, addressed the college November 7 and 8 on "Argentine Economic Development," and "Argentine Economic Policy.

The Dartmouth Christian Association's annual series of Six-40-Fives was opened November 14 by Mr. Norman Thomas, Director of the League for Industrial Democracy and contributing editor of The Nation, who spoke on "The New Imperialism."

At Bradford, N. H., November 8, Professor A. D. Wright, of the Department of Education delivered an address on "Problems of Education" at a meeting of the Bradford Parents and Teachers' Association.

A slight fire in the basement of Hitchcock Hall caused a brief flurry of excitement on Election day. A Red Hot Republican was suspected.

A lecture on "The Manufacture of Lime and Its Use in Construction" was given at the Thayer School, November 8 by Mr. T. B. Shertzer, a construction engineer and representative of the Eastern Bureau of the National Lime Association of Washington, D. C.

Selections from Ring Lardner constituted the program of the English Department Reading given ovember 10 in Robinson Hall by Professor Robinson.

E. P. Goodrich, vice president of the Technical Advisory Corporation of New York City spoke on "Transit and Transportation" and "The Scientific Approach to City Planning" under the auspices of the course in City Planning.

A program of hymns, jubilee and plantation songs was given by a quartet from Hampton Institute at a smoker held in the Trophy Room of the Gymnasium under the auspices of the Dartmouth Christian Association, November 11."

The Shakespeare Playhouse Company, a successful stock company of New York presented George Bernard Shaw's "Candida" in Webster Hall, November 18.

Dr. Charles Upson Clark, formerly a member of the Yale faculty and for three years Director of the school of Classical Studies of the American Academy in Rome, gave an illustrated talk on "The Near East and the Balkan Problems" in Dartmouth Hall, November 14.

Ralph J. Richardson '09, Graduate Secretary of the Dartmouth Christian Association attended the convention of the international committee of the Y. M. C. A. held at Atlantic City during the week of November 14.

The Delta Tau Delta fraternity entertained the members of the Dartmouth faculty at a reception at the fraternity house November 19.

"The Personal Problem in the Construction Industry" was the subject of a lecture given at the Thayer School, November 16, by Mr. O. R. Rietschlin, of the Aberthaw Construction Company, of Boston.

President E. M. Hopkins spoke at a meeting of the Travel Club, November 16, and at the 1923 class smoker, November 18.

S. C. Hazleton, coach of the Dartmouth Swimming Team has been appointed a member of the Constitution Committee of the newly organized College Swimming Coaches Association of America.

Congressman Robert Luce, of Waltham, Mass. spoke in Dartmouth Hall, November 20, on "How Congress Works."

Giving as his reason the pressure of college duties, President Hopkins has resigned the Chairmanship of the New Hampshre Workmen's Compensation Commission to which he was appointed by Governor Brown last year. Dr. J. M. Gile has been appointed by Governor Brown to succeed President Hopkins.

Professor S. G. Patterson, of the Department of Romance Languages, was recentlyelected secretary for the meeting of the Modern Language Association to be held at Philadelphia during the Christmas recess. Mr. Patterson has been put on the executive board to prepare the program for this meeting.

Two lectures, "Old Geneva as an International Force; the First Puritan State" and "The Successors of the Genevan Puritan State in Europe and America," were given at the University of Geneva summer school, during the last term, by Professor H. D. Foster, of the Department of History.

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