NOTES

"The Coal Industry—A Plan for its Stabilization" was the subject of an address delivered in Dartmouth Hall, January 21, by Dr. Edward T. Devine, former editor of TheSurvey.

President Ernest M. Hopkins and Dean Craven Laycock were speakers at the annual dinner of the Dartmouth Alumni Association, of Boston, January 24.

A moving picture film, "The Story of Compressed Air," was shown at the Thayer School, January 22. The film was loaned by the United States Bureau of Mines.

Marcel Dupre, organist of the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, was one of the features of the winter musical season in Hanover, giving a recital on the Streeter Organ in Rollins Chapel, January 22.

Col. Anton Diettrich, coach of the fencing and ski teams, has been conducting a skiing class for members of the faculty.

Professor C. A. Holden, Director of the Thayer School, recently attended a luncheon of Thayer School Graduates, in Buffalo, N. Y., and inspected work on which Thayer School men in that vicinity are now engaged. Mr. Holden also attended a two day conference of Administrative Officers and Deans of Schools of Engineering, held at Ann Arbor, Mich.

Professor Curtis Hidden Page's new book on Japanese Poetry was the subject of a paper by Professor David Lambuth of the Department of English, at a recent meeting of the Ticknor Club. At the same meeting Professor E. A. White, of the English Department, reported the convention of the Modern Language Association, held at Ann Arbor, Mich., during the Christmas recess.

The customary series of examination week organ recitals was given this year by the Department of Music and attendances were large.

Under the auspices of the Dartmouth Scientific Association Mr. John Mills of the Western Electric Company gave an illustrated lecture on Human Speech and its Electrical Transmission, in the Tuck School, February 6.

W. P. Snow, of Lockwood, Greene & Co., of Boston, spoke at the Thayer School, February 5, on "The Beginning of Construction."

Professor Rhees H. Bowen, of the Department of Sociology, was a speaker before the Round Table recently on the policies and future of the new British Labor Government.

In the Little Theatre, of Robinson Hall, February 12, Miss May Korb, soprano, gave a song recital under the auspices of the Department of Music.

A lecture on "Construction and Maintenance by Brick Pavements" was given at the Thayer School, February 13, by Mr. W. C. Perkins, Chief Engineer of the Eastern Paving Brick Manufacturer's Association, of Philadelphia.

Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, former president of Amherst College, who delivered the annual Phi Beta Kappa lecture in Hanover, February IS, was the guest of honor at a reception given by the local chapter of Theta Delta Chi in the Hanover Inn.

Dr. John W. Bowler, Professor of Physical Education and Director of Alumni Gymnasium, left Hanover recently to embark on a two-months' cruise of the Mediterranean. Dr. Bowler has been recovering slowly from a severe illness which he suffered late in the fall and the cruise will give him an opportunity to rest and completely regain his strength.

Russell R. Larmon, Executive Assistant to the President, was the speaker at the first smoker of the Senior Class held in the Senior Eating Club.

Dean of Freshmen, E. Gordon Bill, and Professor L. D. Stillwell, of the Department of History, were the speakers at the first 1927 class smoker, February 16.

Mr. George H. Perkins, of Warren Bros. & Co., Boston, spoke at the Thayer School, February 16, on "Bituminous Pavements."

Homer P. Whitford, of the Department of Music, was the organist at a recital in Rollins Chapel, February 19.

Dr. Earl Dean Howard, labor manager of Hart, Schaffner & Marx, of Chicago, delivered a series of lectures recently in the Tuck School. Dr. Howard spoke on labor conditions, and on conditions in Russia.

"Asphalt Pavements" was the subject of a Thayer School lecture given February 19 by

Mr. C. E. McClintock, of Warren Bros. & Co., Boston.

The second weekly "smoke talk" of the Senior Class was given at the Senior eatmg club in College Hall, February 21, by Professor R. H. Bowen, of the Department of Sociology.

Captain Grant Williams, internationally known as an expert in identification and formerly connected with the Police Department of the City of New York, was the speaker at a College Club "Smoke Talk" in College Hall, February 23.

Professor Norman MacDowell Grier, of the Department of Evolution, will be in charge of the course in Field and Systematic Botany at the Biological Laboratory, Cold Spring Harbor, N. Y., during the coming summer.

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