The Faculty
JOHN H. GEROULD whose retirement from teaching began last October, on his 70th birthday, is engaged, among other activities in writing up "Genetic and Seasonal Color Variations in a Butterfly Species-Cross." This describes hybridization experiments made mostly in 1913 and 1914 in the greenhouse, basement and garden of the late Butterfield Hall where Baker Library has since arisen. Stock from the orange-colored alfalfa butterfly of certain western states was crossed with a common eastern yellow species which lays its eggs preferably on white clover. The heredity and seasonal (climatic) variations in wingcolor in numerous specimens of the cross have lately been skilfully measured with a "tintometer" by Dr. Hannah Croasdale, technical assistant in Zoology, and the results have been plotted. Partial sterility between the two species and the probable evolution of one from the other are being studied.
It isn't often that a football coach can jump directly into a game and function with the team that he has been coaching, but in dramatics Director WARNER BENTLEY of the Players took the leading role in the Winter Carnival Show this year, and that by the actual selection of the organization itself. This is the first time that Mr. Bentley has been cast in a Dartmouth show, although he has been seen on the stage several times in emergency roles, and once when he first came to Hanover with a group from the Yale School of the Drama.
Added to Dartmouth's life this winter are Dr. and Mrs. R. L. WEAVER, both of whom are experts in the study of bird life, and give many lectures here and elsewhere and Dr. Weaver is engaged in extracurricular activities with Dartmouth students and acts in an advisory and cooperative capacity with faculty and townspeople. A lecture, "Birds and Their Habits," was given jointly by Dr. and Mrs. Weaver in Hanover last month for the purpose of explaining some details about bird life and the ways in which birds may be fed and also studied in home feeding stations. In January Dr. Weaver was the principal speaker at the annual meeting of the Audubon Society and the Northeastern Bird Banding Association at Boston University. He spoke on a "Territorial and Nesting Study of English Sparrows." Mrs. Weaver also spoke on the subject "Life History Study of the Wood Thrush."
JOEL W. EGERER of the department of English became curious this year about the drawings students make in their notebooks while listening to lectures. And so he made a collection of these pictures and put them on exhibition during Carnival week under the title of "Uninhibited Art." There were, it is true, a number of portraits of the professors giving the lectures but there were more "release" pictures which showed the vagaries of the student mind. There were plenty of automobiles with surrealist thumbs, strong men, an ice cream cone, girls, Indians, Victorian embellishments, a perfect Fra Lippo Lippi, sport pictures, a "sex machine" experiment in mathematics, probably expense accounts, and telephone designs. There was a picture of Satan with red arteries showing through the skin, presumably a product of the biological laboratory. It applied also to social science as a Latin inscription made him the Devs ex Machina.
But the most elaborate drawing showed a lecture in progress, a scantily dressed woman declaiming her theme before a listless group on the subject "What (withexpletives) is a Liberal Education?"
Professor HOWARD F. DUNHAM of the Romance Language Department, himself a Dartmouth man, likes to see Dartmouth students dressed in a little more fastidious fashion on public occasions, and made it known recently to a class in which term papers are read, that the teacher would regard the man who read the term paper aloud before the class a little more favorably if he would, upon the morning of the reading, add a necktie to his apparel. Neckties thereupon began to appear at the morning reading. One morning there was considerable stir outside the door of the class-room just before exercises began, and then in walked the reader of the day dressed in a tuxedo with studs and all. The rest of the class had been outside the door grooming him, straightening out his tie and brushing his clothes. An example which may be followed, with presumably good effect, in all classes.
Another marriage to be recorded among the professorial ranks is that of ANDREW H. MCNAIR, assistant professor of geology to Miss EVELYN LYFORD of Hardwick, Vermont. The marriage took place in the United Church in Hardwick Jan. ag. Dr. Richard E. Stoiber of the department of geology was best man. The ushers were Henry S. Odbert, assistant professor of psychology and Norman K. Arnold of the department of zoology.
DR. ROSS STAGNER, author of "The Psychology of Personality" and now engaged on a book The Psychology of Peace andWar has been added to the Dartmouth College faculty and will begin work here in the fall. His undergraduate work was done at Washington University, St. Louis, and his graduate work at the University of Wisconsin where he took his doctor's degree in 1933. He is a member of a number of academic committees of pyschology, one of them an international group set up by the New Commonwealth Institute of London for special research.
ASSISTANT LIBRARIAN HAROLD RUGG returned this month from a vacation trip that took him to Key West. As Mr. Rugg never divorces business from pleasure he is always on the lookout for rare and autographed books for the Dartmouth Library, not to mention Americana, old New Hampshire and Vermont books and first editions of almost any variety, provided of course the library is not already supplied.
A number of members of the Dartmouth Faculty have already sent in for complimentary memberships in the Dartmouth Club of New York, following the invitation by the Club to all the Hanover group. The old Morgan residence at 30 East 37th street is a very fine headquarters for anyone visiting or doing business in New York, and the chances are that the faculty visitor will run across old students. The dining room which is reserved for members with women guests is almost a "museum piece" with its carvings and handsome wood finish.
CHALLENGING TEACHER Sociology 15-16 ("Types of Social Imagination") is a favorite course with Prof. JohnM. Mecklin who will address the Bostonalumni at a meeting at the University Clubon Dartmouth Night, March 9.
