Professor Eddy Elected President of Hobart
Professor William A. Eddy of the Department of English at Dartmouth will be the new president of Hobart College, it was announced from Geneva, N. Y., on January 4. In becoming Hobart's 15th president, he will succeed the Rev. Dr. Murray Bartlett, who is to retire in May after an administration of 17 years.
Professor Eddy has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1928 and a full professor since June, 1934. Before coming to Dartmouth he was Associate Professor of English and chairman of that department in the American University at Cairo, Egypt, from 1923 to 1938. During his eight years at Dartmouth, Professor Eddy has been one of the most popular teachers in the College, his courses on Satire and Representative English Authors attracting many undergraduates to the study of English literature. He has been faculty adviser for a number of student organizations, and was formerly a member of the Dartmouth Outing Club Council. He is one of the two faculty representatives on the Committee for the Survey of Social Life in Dartmouth College, and for several years has been a member of the faculty committee advisory to the President, Professor Eddy has tendered his resignation as a member of the Dartmouth faculty, effective at the end of the college year.
The son of an American missionary, Dr. Eddy was born in Syria in 1896. He came to this country in 1908, received his early schooling in Wooster, Ohio, and in 1913 entered Wooster College. Two years later he transferred to Princeton University, where he was graduated in 1917 with the Litt.B. degree. At Princeton he starred in basketball and was a member of Dial Lodge, upperclass club. After graduation he joined the Marine Corps, was assigned to the Second Division of the A. E. F., and rose to the rank of captain in 1918. He served as regimental patrol officer, and for extraordinary heroism received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Navy Cross, and four general army citations. Wounded in June, 1918, while fighting in the Belleau Woods sector, he was retired from the Marine Corps in 1919. He returned to Princeton for graduate study in English and received his M.A. degree in 1921 and his Ph.D. degree in 1922. In the following year he sailed for Egypt to take over his duties at the American University in Cairo, where he lectured and prepared texts in both Arabic and English. As director of student activities, he introduced the game of basketball into the Nile Valley, and helped to form a league of 16 teams, from Alexandria to Assuan, which is still flourishing.
Professor Eddy married Miss Mary Garvin in 1917 and has two sons and two daughters: William Alfred Jr., 14; Mary Garvin, 13: John Condit, 10; and Carmen Frances, 2. He and his family will take up their residence in Geneva on July 1.
A specialist in 18th century literature, particularly in satire and the writings of Swift, Dr. Eddy has written Gulliver'sTravels—A Critical Study (1923), and has edited the Nelson edition of Butler's Erewhon and the Oxford two-volume edition of Swift's works.
Dartmouth's Modern Ski Tramway The main drive station of Dartmouth's modern ski tramway. The 6-foot wheel weighs 1,600 lbs. and with the 80 h.p. engine in the house drives the steel cable at a speed of about 7 miles per hour. The Tramway delivers 600 skiers per hour at the top of the hill 1,200 feet away and 350 feet above this station.
Spyglass Hill Farm at Mt. MoosilaukeDartmouth's Spyglass Hill Farm at Mt. Moosilauke, Warren, N. H., open to all skiers and headquarters for skiing on this southernmost of the big White Mt. peaks. F. K. Sayre '33 is the Manager and the Club prides itself on the excellent, low priced ski schools held each week-end and popular with alumni.
