Wheelock Biography

DARTMOUTH College Publications has announced that the completed manuscript of Prof. James D. McCallum's fulllength biography of Eleazar Wheelock has been turned over to the printer and that the volume will probably be ready before Commencement. This biography will be Volume No. 4 of the Dartmouth College Manuscript Series, the first volume of which was Professor McCallum's Lettersof Eleazar Wheelock's Indians.

Also in process of being printed under the auspices of Dartmouth College Publications is The Logic of Language by the late Prof. James M. MacKaye of the Philosophy department. This treatise on the logic of language and the conditions of successful communication between men has been edited by Albert W. Levi '32, instructor in Philosophy and one of Professor MacKaye's literary executors.

Professor McCallum in the preface to his biography of Eleazar Wheelock states: "Eleazar Wheelock was a very pious man. That is granted tacitly by all Dartmouth men, and on the many occasions when they sing Richard Hovey's words, vociferously. And his interest in education, in the Bible, and in good cheer is brought to mind by the poet's reference to the paraphernalia which Wheelock allegedly carried from Connecticut to New Hampshire.

"It has seemed to me that the time has come, however, for a more exact characterization than the poet permitted himself, rhythmical and humorous as his is. Just how did Wheelock express his piety? What were his aims in education? How did he carry on his duties as pastor, farmer, father, teacher, administrator?...

"It has been necessary for me to tell again, but with less detail, the story of the founding of Dartmouth; my main emphasis has been on the personality, the 'mental configuration,' of Wheelock, to the end that the questions stated above, and other related ones, may have an answer." *