Trustee Meeting

The regular spring meeting of the board of trustees was held in Hanover April 1 and 2. Those in attendance were Pres. Ernest M. Hopkins, Lewis Parkhurst, H. B. Thayer, C. B. Little, F. A. Howland, C. G. Dußois, M. C. Tuttle, E. W. Knight, J. R. McLane, and W. R. Gray. A. 0. Brown and Gov. Charles L. Tobey did not attend. Mr. Brown is spending the early spring months in Florida owing to illness during the winter.

The regular docket of business was taken up by the trustees including the elections, reelections, new appointments and re-appointments to the faiculty. Leaves of absence to faculty members and promotions in grade were made. Increases in salaries were given to several of the instruction corps. The reports of the executive committee and of the committee on the physical development and maintenance of the plant were submitted and discussed. Halsey C. Edgerton, college treasurer, was called into the meeting to submit his report and to discuss the financial policies of the College.

SCHOLARSHIP AID As announced in other articles in this issue of the MAGAZINE the trustees voted to adopt the President's plan for the establishment of Senior Fellowships and to proceed with the erection of a new Tuck School group. After consideration of the report on the scholarship aid system now in effect, as submitted by Prof. Herman Feldman and Prof. Gilbert H. Tapley of the Tuck School, it was voted to have additional copies of the report printed and circulated among the members of the board and to have further investigation made, to be reported upon at the June meeting, toward the end of a possible revision of the scholarship system.

A committee recently appointed by President Hopkins and consisting of Robert C. Strong, chairman, Adelbert Ames, Jr., William H. McCarter, Leslie F. Murch, Max A. Norton, and E. Bradlee Watson, was granted an appropriation of $5OO for the expenses of studying the need for a Student Union building.

DEGREES AWARDED

Upon recommendation of Dean Laycock the following degrees in course were awarded: BACHELOR OF ARTSClass of 1923 Norris, Whitton Evans

Class of 1928 Church, Ralph Alfred Dodge, Homer Goddard Holbrook, George Edward Klinck, Richard Rhodes Treanor, William Curry BACHELOR OF SCIENCE Class of 1927 Lamson, Wendell Mather Class of 1928 Cole, George Leonard, Jr. Ginsburg, Samuel Arthur' Graf, Kenneth Folsom Graupner, Herman William Mann, Albert Elmore Marshall, Robert Coppins Whittemore, Merrill Willey

FACULTY APPOINTMENTS

Elections to the Dartmouth faculty for the year 1929-1930 were made as follows: Monsieur Denoeu as visiting lecturer in French. Herluf V. Olsen as assistant professor of Statistics and Secretary of the Tuck School. Upon the recommendation of the committee advisory to the President it was voted to make the following promotions in faculty grade: Gordon H. Gliddon, now a fellow in the department of Research in Physiological Optics to assistant professor of Physiological Optics in the Medical School. George Loring Frost from instructor to assistant professor of English. Evan Albro Woodward from instructor to assistant professor of English. Ralph A. Burns from instructor to assistant professor of Education. Harry F. R. Shaw from instructor to assistant professor of Economics. New appointments to the faculty were made as follows: Harold W. Blodgett as instructor in English. Charles Dean Chamberlin as instructor in English. Merle C. Cowden as instructor in German. Brainerd Dyer as instructor in History. Allen R. Foley as instructor in History. A. Howard Meneely as instructor in History. Wendell Stewart as assistant in Physics. Mike V. McEnany as assistant in Physics. Joseph S. Tidd as instructor in Botany. Dr. John J. Boardman as instructor in Anatomy in the Medical School. Dr. Elmer H. Carleton as instructor in Anatomy in the Medical School. Leaves of absence were granted to the following members of the faculty: 1928-1929 Frank Maloy Anderson, professor of History, for the second semester. 1929-1930 James A. Winans, professor of Public Speaking, for the first semester. Charles R. Lingley, professor of History, for the second semester. Leroy J. Cook, assistant professor of Romance Languages, for the second semester. Anton A. Raven, assistant professor of English, for the second semester. Joseph W. Tanch, assistant professor of Physics, for the second semester. Ambrose White Vernon, professor of Biography, for the entire year. George M. Robertson, assistant professor of Evolution, for the entire year. Leon Verriest, assistant professor of French, for the entire year. Allan H. Macdonald, instructor in English, for the entire year. The resignations of three members of the faculty were read by the President and these were accepted. They are: James G. Stevens as assistant professor of Education. Allen P. Richmond as assistant professor of Civil Engineering in the Thayer School. Gilbert H. Tapley as assistant professor of Statistics and secretary of the Tuck School.

To REVISE ROOM RENTS

The trustees instructed the administration to proceed at once with a revision of room rents in college dormitories. Owing to increased costs of maintenance and operation this readjustment of rental fees will result in increases in many cases. In others there will be a reduction from the rentals now in force.