ADDITIONS TO THE FACULTY
FROM PARIS where he has been for four years director of the Delaware Group of American students studying in French universities, George Drew Hocking comes to the department of Romance Languages. As this system of study in French schools has been broken up during the war, Dr. Hocking is confining his efforts to teaching in the United States. The Delaware Group which is now in its 17th year, came from the university of that name. As the scope of its work widened, it included groups from Dartmouth, Amherst, Brown, Williams, Cornell, Vassal", Wellesley. Smith College has had its own group system for study in France. The whole program was most interesting. Students enrolling for the group would prepare to spend one year in France. The year's study usually counted as the equivalent of the work of junior year in an American college. The first two months were spent usually at Tours, as a kind of preparation, then the remainder of the year was given over to studies in the Sorbonne in Paris or at some such school as "L'Ecole des Sciences Politiques." Part of the work of the group-director was to assign living places in representative French families, in order to give practice in conversation, as well as to help the student get a better understanding of French life and thought.
Practically welcomed to his Dartmouth post in mid-ocean, James Van Gundia Neel, a graduate of Wooster College, with a Ph.D. from the University of Rochester is carrying on this year in the teaching of genetics, a course taught for so many years by Dr. J. H. Gerould in the department of Biology. Dr. Neel had been attending in London this summer a conference on genetics, where he presented a paper on Temperature, Body Size, and Character Expression in Drosphila, and was returning to America on the City ofFlint. When that ship was called to aid the survivors of the sinking Athenia, Dr. Neel, like many passengers was helping in the rescue work, and was greatly surprised to see a life boat from the Athenia pull up, with Dr. William F. Diller, a predecessor from the department of Biology at Dartmouth sitting in the stern. Dr. Diller was on leave of absence from Dartmouth last year, and this year goes to the University of Pennsylvania as assistant professor of zoology. Dr. Neel has taught as assistant at Rochester and has held a Wood's Hole fellowship from that institution.
Dr. Ross Stagner, who comes as an assistant professor in the department of psychology this year is engaged in an interesting work, that of editing a book on the psychology of war. He is working with Professors J. F. Brown of the University of Kansas, Ralph White of Cornell, and Ralph Gundlach of the University of Washington, in Seattle. The purpose of the book is to try to apply psycho-analytic knowledge of unconscious desires and motives to the causation of war, and the effects of war, on soldiers and civilians. Dr. Stagner, after being graduated from the University of Washington, went to the University of Wisconsin, where he took his master's degree in 1930 and his doctor's degree in 1932. He taught at a junior college in Chicago and then was elected to the faculty of the University of Akron whence he comes to Dartmouth.
Two new men have come to the department of public speaking, the offices of which on the top floor of Wentworth Hall are about as busy as any in the college. The advances of work in the field of public speaking in the past few years have been enormous, particularly the activities of the Speech Clinic. Almon Bingham Ives, with degrees from Illinois Wesleyan, Illinois State Normal, and Northwestern, comes to give two courses in oral interpretation and also to assist Carl D. England in the very important speech clinic. Mr. Ives, who has been teaching at the Stout Institute, Menomonie, Wisconsin, is building a piece of equipment for voice science, a neon lamp disc-stroboscope, an instrument to show pitch variations and to assist in correcting monotonous voices. The other newcomer to the department is Arthur Morford Barnes, who has taken degrees at the University of lowa and was working on a doctorate at Cornell last year. In addition to teaching duties, Mr. Barnes will have charge of freshman debating. Some twenty contests with outside teams are usually arranged, and next April the debating tournament will be held as it was last year, at Dartmouth, with teams from such New England colleges as Bates, Amherst, Williams, and Yale.
Exemplifying, perhaps, the way in which the modern college presents subjects as opposed to the older and more strictly departmental method is the schedule of John Ernest Alexander Crake, who comes as an instructor in the classics. Two of his courses are in the direct language field o£ Latin and Greek. A third course is Roman history. His fourth course in the field of classical mythology is especially adapted to English majors, particularly those who are majoring in English classics. It is also a course which might be listed as Art, with the study from books and lantern slides of paintings, designs, vase-figures and other remains of the Greek and Latin civilizations. Dr. Crake had his B.A. from Toronto, a similar degree from Oxford, and the doctorate from Johns Hopkins. He had a teaching fellowship at Toronto, a fellowship in Latin at Johns Hopkins, and the subject of his thesis at Johns Hopkins is "Archive Material in Livy."
WHEN A STUDENT works out an idea which will benefit the work of the College, he is rather sure to get a good hearing for that idea. So, when Peter S. Cardozo of last year's senior class came forward with a well worked-out plan for improving the student writing in all departments, his idea was taken up by the English Department at once, and now Mr. Cardozo is a member of the English Department working out his scheme. In a room on the lower floor of Sanborn House he has posted a sign "Writing Clinic. Office Hours," such and such. To this office repair freshmen with much marked-up themes; also come students from other departments whose instructors find their English not up to standard. The office is a welcome place for those who come voluntarily, and it is also busy with those students who are sent directly by instructors. Mr. Cardozo believes that in freshman work particularly, students need to know a little of the technique of interesting readers. He also deals with offences against usage, spelling, and grammar. With a good record in English, high grades as well, the head of the clinic won two English prizes for writing while in college, the Lockwood in junior year and the Grimes (composition) in senior year. In addition he has done much writing outside his courses, a novelette of his, "A Letter to My Love," appearing in the September Cosmopolitan, with which publication he is also under contract to do additional work.
ASSISTANT IN ENGLISH Peter S. Cardozo '39 who is doing specialwork for the department of English andother departments of the faculty in assisting undergraduates in writing.
