Wheelock Biography
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE PUBLICATIONS will enter a period of brisk activity in October, with Prof. James Dow McCallums' biography of Eleazar Wheelock appearing on October 1 and Prof. James Mackaye's posthumous Logic of Language scheduled for publication later in the month.
Professor McCallum's Eleazar Wheelock will be the fourth volume in the Dartmouth College Manuscript Series, which also includes the author's Lettersof Eleazar Wheelock's Indians, Prof. Leon Burr Richardson's An Indian Preacher inEngland, and Harold Blodgett's SamsonOccum. In describing the Wheelock biography, the editors of the series state: "In this biography Wheelock once more lives as he did in the eighteenth century. The author has properly stressed Wheelock's religious attitude, and has shown how the small Indian school in Connecticut developed into Dartmouth College. But throughout the biography the personality of Wheelock stands forth clearly. Here we see him in his personal relationships with parishioners, white students, Indians, slaves, and many of the important men of the time, and learn of the founder's ambitions, disappointments and successes. The treatment is sympathetic but balanced, and affords a remarkably full insight into the personal and public life of one of New England's great educators."
The Logic of Language is being published by the College as a memorial to Professor Mackaye, for many years a teacher of philosophy at Dartmouth. The book is concerned with the problem of successful communication, a subject much publicized of late under the title of semantics. Professor Mackaye's manuscript was edited for publication by Albert W. Levi '32, instructor in philosophy at Dartmouth and a former student of the author.
Other recent activities of Dartmouth College Publications have included a new edition of Richard Hovey's DartmouthLyrics, of which an additional trade edition is almost exhausted; a new departure in publishing a volume for the Dartmouth Eye Institute, An Evaluation of VisualFactors in Reading by Henry A. Imus, John W. N. Rothney, and Robert M. Baird, reporting on research in connection with Dartmouth's program to improve the reading ability of the student body; Prof. John G. Gazley's monograph on Democracy in Great Britain andFrance Since the World War, written for Social Science 1-2 to cover a subject not to be found elsewhere in print; and the fifth edition of Songs of Dartmouth College, the first printing of Dartmouth songs under College auspices.
Other items bearing the Dartmouth College Publications imprint are the Orozco Frescoes pamphlet, which has sold over 3,000 copies; RevolutionaryNew Hampshire written by Richard F. Upton '36 during his term as a Senior Fellow; and Leon Burr Richardson's two- volume History of Dartmouth College, which is in continuous demand. Since Dartmouth College Publications undertook distribution of various publications previously issued by the College, a number have been sold out. These include The Proceedings of the Webster Centennial, The Report of the Senior Committee of the Class of 1924, the DartmouthRoll of Honor, 1861-65, and The Case ofDartmouth College.
A new edition of the General Catalogueof Dartmouth College, last published in 1925, is now in preparation and is scheduled for publication in February. It will contain biographical data on all alumni and all officers and teachers of the College since Dartmouth was founded, through the Class of 1939.
AERIAL VIEW (LEFT) OF THE 130-AcRE ESTATE AT CANAAN STREET, N. H., PRESENTED TO THE COLLEGE LAST SPRING BY THEODORE C. HAFFENREFFER OF JAMAICA PLAIN, MASS. THE 28-ROOM MANSION SHOWN AT THE RIGHT COMMANDS A FINE VIEW OF CANAAN STREET LAKE, ALONG WHICH THE ESTATE HAS ABOUT A MILE OF FRONTAGE. AS A SUPPLEMENTARY GIFT MR. HAFFENREFFER, WHO IS THE UNCLE OF RUDOLPH F. HAFFENREFFER III '25 AND CARL W. HAFFENREFFER '30, THIS SUMMER GAVE THE COLLEGE 700 ACRES OF WOODLAND IN CANAAN AND DORCHESTER, INCLUDING THE ENTIRE EAST SHORE OF CLARK POND. THE CANAAN STREET ESTATE WAS USED WITH GREAT SUCCESS THIS SUMMER FOR THE FIELD WORK OF THE FIRST-YEAR CLASS OF THE THAYER SCHOOL OF CIVIL ENGINEERING. PLANS FOR THE FUTURE USE OF THE ESTATE ARE STILL INDEFINITE, BUT CONSIDERATION HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE SUGGESTION THAT THE LAKE FRONT BE DEVOTED TO FACULTY OR ALUMNI COTTAGES, AND ALSO TO THE SUGGESTION THAT THE ESTATE BE USED AS A BOYS' CAMP.
