The Faculty
THE WINTER MONTHS bring many interesting lecturers to Dartmouth. These lecturers as a rule do not come one day, give a talk, and leave the following morning. It is always planned to have as many of them as possible spend several days or a week or more in Hanover and hold conferences for any students that wish to attend. In January Dartmouth had the honor of entertaining the representative of a five-generation Dartmouth family. Aaron Davis, of the class of 1913, magazine writer and advertising man, came in a lecture-conference capacity for a whole week. Mr. Davis has a son in the freshman class. Mr. Aaron Davis' father was W. H. Davis of the class of 1874, a trustee of the college from 1901 to 1905. The grandfather and great-grandfather were also Dartmouth graduates. Isn't this a record?
The extra-curricular classes for students, faculty, and townsfolk this year are reminders that many such courses have already been given in Dartmouth in the past. Besides these a number of regular courses are open to members of the faculty if they wish to attend. The courses in Chinese given by PROFESSOR DAVID LATTIMORE have been attended last year and this year by both students and faculty as were the classes in Russian given a few years ago by PROFESSOR R. W. JONES. PROFESSOR LATTIMORE will be away during the second semester on leave.
DR. LOUIS P. BENEZET who joined the department of Education in the fall is one of the most versatile writers on the faculty. Men of the early 1 goo's remember a very readable book on the rise of Dartmouth in the football world. Later Dr. Benezet wrote and lectured on world affairs, two of his books being The Right and Left inEurope and The World War and WhatWas Behind It. The Story of Society is one of his most recent. But having been a lifelong student of Shakespeare, PROFESSOR BENEZET has carried on much investigation of his own, and has given lectures of the subject, which to those of a more settled point of view are quite startling. Dr. Benezet also has a very fine collection of maps.
PROFESSOR HERMAN FELDMAN of Tuck School is continuing his activities in public service this year. Having been chairman of the New Hampshire commission which drafted the state unemployment insurance law he is now serving as a member of the Federal 48-member committee to recommend wage and hour standards for the apparel industry. Graduates of a few years ago may remember that PROFESSOR FELDMAN'S analysis of the Prohibition question before the Great Repeal was one of the very few authoritative books on the subject.
PROFESSOR NORMAN H. HINTON who joined the Political Science department last fall has been engaged in a very interesting survey along with two Columbia professors on the subject of Public Opinion on Education, the survey having been made in the state of Pennsylvania. The survey included a number of groups, such as teachers, school administrators, and parents, but the parent group brought perhaps the most interesting results. Eightyseven per cent of the parents in the poll were in favor of experimentation methods in education, and were also in favor of letting the children in on some of the political blunders of the country in the course of its history. An interesting comment was "If the schools are to educate children, they must educate the parents as well."
Announcement was made during the Christmas vacation of the marriage in Concord, N. H. on Dec. 20 of PROFESSOR RUSSELL LARMON '19 and KATHERINE GRAVES JOHNSTON of Concord. Mr. Larmon is professor of Administration on the Benjamin Ames Kimball Foundation.
Professors from the History and Political Science departments these days are in somewhat of a demand for talks on current subjects before groups all over this part of the country. Besides the talks already noted of PROFESSOR ANDERSON and HILL and BRUCE, a talk by DR. JO.HN G. GAZLEY at Union College recently attracted considerable attention. Under the title "Impressions of England" DR. GAZLEY discussed Chamberlain's policies and the feeling of the English public about the Czechoslovak controversy, and English public opinion in its attitude toward Chamberlain and Eden.
PROFESSOR STEARNS MORSE of the English Department who writes about the White Mountains and other subjects, engages in politics now and then to run for something or other, is called upon by students and young people very frequently to talk over political matters. At a recent gathering of young people in a Springfield, Mass. Forum he stated as his belief that we could stay out of a war fought in Europe, but was doubtful if we could remain out of one in South America if any foreign country started a war there. "Germany will probably continue to get what she wants without fighting" he is quoted as saying.
With interest in the North Country still increasing, if the number of winter-sport patrons in Hanover this year is any index, two booklets issued by the State Planning and Development Commission, prepared in such fashion as to be of interest to the layman, describe mountains, waterfalls, flumes and cascades and their geologic history. They are reports on the territories designated as Mt. Chocorua, and Mascoma-Mt. Cube. PROFESSOR JAMES W. GOLDTHWAITE of Dartmouth reviewed and approved these booklets, after they had been completed under the direction of PROFESSOR MARLAND BILLINGS of the Department of Geology and Geography at Harvard. These are additions to the reports on the geology of the Franconia, Littleton and Moosilauke areas. They may be obtained at a small charge from the State Planning Commission in Concord.
Dartmouth is well represented on the Yankee's map of New Hampshire writers in a recent number. Besides the names of PRESIDENT HOPKINS, STEARNS MORSE, ALEX LAING, SIDNEY Cox, HERBERT WEST, J. W. GOLDTHWAITE and others of the College, are included the names of two Hanover Women of faculty families, ALICE VAN LEER CARRICK the wife of PROFESSOREMERITUS PRESCOTT O. SKINNER, and ELEANOR LATTIMORE, daughter of PROFESSOR LATTIMORE. If the list included all the Hanover writers, including those who work here in the summer, it would be a very large list indeed.
During the Christmas Vacation the College group was saddened by the loss of two of its most loved members. The death of EARLE C. GORDON '11 on Dec. 18 followed by the death of DR. JOHN BOWLER SR. on Dec. 26 were both especially shocking by their suddenness. Close-knit as the college community is, these losses are much more distinctly felt than in a city or a larger group, and members of the faculty as well as students who in the past have been associated with these men will miss them keenly. The splendid service rendered by both to the College will live, however, as long as the College itself.
DR. STEPHAN J. SCHLOSSMACHER'S group "Germania" which has made such an interesting contribution to the cultural life of the College, will repeat the play it gave in Hanover Christmas time, at Smith College on April 22. The "Germania" organization has rooms on the top floor of Robinson, where its meetings take place but it gives plays during the year, offers considerable entertainment, and is always very lively. It has 60 members or thereabouts, many of whom eat together at a German table in Thayer Hall and speak nothing but German. DR. SCHLOSSMACHER also gives a community class in the German language, to which belong faculty members, their wives, members of the College staff and townsfolk. Incidentally the last Christmas play was the eighth annual production.
PROFESSOR HERBERT WEST, who is the author of a new book which is the key to books on nature, discussed his subject before a group of 300 people at the Book Fair held recently in Brattleboro. The Brattleboro Book Fair is the only book fair held outside the larger cities of the country, and attracts such writers as Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Charles Crane, Gerald Brace, and many others. Mr. West has been laid up for a month following removal of his gall-bladder and appendix. He is recuperating rapidly now.
ROBERT J. DELAHANTY, of the department of physical education, has been working over the figures prepared by Dr. John W. Bowler and compiled over a period of thirty years or more, and is prepared to state that the Dartmouth undergraduate of today is taller, younger, and heavier than the undergraduate of days usually considered more husky. Dr. Bowler's work in keeping track of the record of every Dartmouth man in this long period is certainly amazing, and the MAGAZINE hopes to print the results of this study at some future time.
GEOLOGIC HISTORIAN James W. Goldthait (Harvard '02), Hallprofessor of Geology at Dartmouth since1911, shown with his son Richard '33 whois teaching Geology at Harvard.
