Five Join Faculty
DR. ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN, one of America's foremost philosophers and educators, will join the Dartmouth faculty for the second semester as Visiting Professor of Philosophy. Also appointed for second-semester terms are the Rev. Chester B. Fisk, pastor of the Church of Christ in Hanover, as Visiting Lecturer in the English Bible; Robert D. Eddy as instructor in Chemistry; Thomas H. LeDuc as instructor in History; and Barrington Moore Jr. as instructor in Sociology.
Dr. Meiklejohn, former president of Amherst College, will give a course entitled "Idealism and Pragmatism" which will deal with significant social controversies and will be open to the three upper classes. The Department of Philosophy also plans to present Dr. Meiklejohn in a series of public lectures on the philosophy of education. A special departmental committee has been named to plan this series and to devise other means of enabling as many as possible to benefit from the eminent philosopher's visit to Hanover.
Since 1933 Dr. Meiklejohn has divided his teaching between the Experimental College of the University of Wisconsin, where he is chairman of the Department of Philosophy, and the School of Social Studies in San Francisco. Former professor of Philosophy and Dean at Brown University, from which he graduated in 1893, he served as president of Amherst from 1912 to 1924. His son, Donald Meiklejohn, was an instructor in Philosophy at Dartmouth last year.
Reverend Fisk graduated from Princeton in 1927, and in 1930 received the degree of Bachelor of Divinity from Chicago Theological Seminary and the degree of Master of Arts from the University of Chicago. He has been pastor of the White Church in Hanover since last spring. Mr. LeDuc, who taught at Dartmouth during the second semester last year, graduated from Columbia University in 1934 and received the degree of Master of Arts from Toronto University in 1936. Mr. Moore is a graduate of Williams College, in the class of 1936. Mr. Eddy, who was assistant in chemistry at Princeton last year, graduated from Brown in 1935. He received his M.A. at Princeton last year and his Ph.D. there this year.
