Senior Fellows Chosen
Senior Fellowships for the academic year 1935-36 have keen awarded to six members of the junior class, it was announced by President Hopkins following the spring meeting of the Board of Trustees. The men honored with a year of complete freedom from scholastic requirements are Robert G. Chaffee, of Rutland, Vt.; Paul S. Cleaveland, of Lancaster, N. H.; Robert T. Keeler, of Cleveland, Ohio; Samuel F. Morse, of Danvers, Mass.; Raphael H. Silverman, of Hanover; and Walter A. Stewart, of New York City.
Under the Senior Fellowship plan, which was established by a vote of the Trustees in April, 1929, the President upon recommendation of a special committee selects from the junior class a small group of outstanding men, usually five or six, to be Senior Fellows for the following academic year. During the tenure of his fellowship, the Senior Fellow is not required to attend classes, take examinations, or pay tuition fees. He is allowed to pursue his studies in whatever way he chooses, but must be in residence at the College during the year and must retain his good standing as an undergraduate.
To Do MUSEUM WORK
Chaffee, who plans to go into museum work, will devote next year to securing and completing specimens of local mammalian fauna for the Wilson Museum, to preparing specimens which he expects to secure during a field trip to Mexico this summer, to identifying further the present paleontological collection in the Museum, and to continuing his studies in Vertebrate Paleontology. He prepared for Dartmouth at Pawling School, is a Zoology major, and belongs to Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity.
Cleaveland plans to go into law and will use next year to broaden his cultural foundations, particularly along the lines of a sociological study of mass thinking. He is an honors student in English and has been a letterman in basketball for the past two seasons. He prepared for Dartmouth at Exeter Academy; is a member of Sphinx, Green Key, and Chi Phi fraternity; and is one of the undergraduate members of the Committee for the Study of Social Life in Dartmouth College.
PLANS HISTORICAL STUDY
Keeler also plans to enter the profession of law, and will use his Senior Fellowship for an ambitious historical study involving the Greek, Roman, Medieval and Modern periods. He is a History major and prepared for Dartmouth at University School. He will be manager of varsity hockey next year, and is a member of Casque and Gauntlet, Green Key and Alpha Delta Phi fraternity.
Morse hopes to make teaching and writing his vocation, and plans to devote next year to creative work in prose and poetry. He proposes to complete the first draft of a New England novel on which he is working, to continue his unusually promising work in poetry, and to make a start upon a integrative anthology of young English and American poets of today. An English major, Morse has had some of his poetry published in College Verse and Poetry. He prepared for Dartmouth at Holten High School in Danvers, Mass., and is a member of the Poets' Guild and of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.
SON OF DARTMOUTH PROFESSOR
Silverman, the son of Prof. L. L. Silverman of the Mathematics Department, is looking forward to a musical career, eventually as a conductor, and plans to devote next year to musical techniques and to the study of score reading and theory. An exceptional violinist, he also expects to master a larger portion of violin literature. He is majoring in Mathematics, and before entering Dartmouth attended Clark School and Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. He is a member of the Musical Clubs, the Forensic Union, and Pi Lambda Phi fraternity.
Stewart is planning a career of zoological research and will use his Senior Fellowship to continue the promising laboratory work in cyno-genetics which he has been carrying on as an honors student in Zoology. He prepared for Dartmouth at Lincoln School in New York and has been a candidate for the soccer team. He is a member of Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity.
John H. McElroy '03 Nominated to Alumni Council by alumni of Albany, N. Y.
