Morrison Joins Faculty

The election of Hugh Morrison, instructor in Fine Arts at the University of Chicago and lecturer on architectural subjects, as assistant professor of Art on the Dartmouth faculty has been announced by President Hopkins. Mr. Morrison will give a course in the history of architecture, ancient and modern, and will conduct a seminar in modem architecture here next year. He will also do tutorial work with the honors students in Art.

Following graduation from Dartmouth in 1926, Mr. Morrison studied at the Princeton Graduate School and was appointed instructor in Fine Arts at the University of Chicago during the spring and summer quarters of 1927. He attended the Princeton Graduate School again in 1927-28 and has been instrucatentative tor in Fine Arts at the University of Chicago since that time. He is a member of the staff of the Bureau of University Travel as a lecturer to tourists at European art centers.

Mr. Morrison is at present engaged in work on a biography of the architect, Louis Sullivan, who, as a dominating influence on architecture during the past century, is considered largely responsible for the development of the skyscraper. Mr. Morrison has also had published a number of incidental articles on art.