1919*
In an attempt to keep them occupied during the quiet days before Christmas, I asked the intellectual members of the Class to report on their activities, both past and present, and received an exceedingly generous response.
Wallace Wright, from lowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, Ames, lowa, sends the following:
"Your letter came at a time when I imagined myself to be unusually busy, but I am always astonished to discover that the world goes on about as usual, even when I take time off to do the things I really want to do instead of those I am compelled to do.
"I have been connected with lowa State College since leaving Stanford in 1930. My present rank is that of Professor of Economics. I am also in charge of the administrative work in Industrial Economics, a sub-section of the department. Aside from my administrative work, my whole interest and attention has been given to teaching.
"As you doubtless know, I am married and have two children, a boy of 7 and a girl of 3.
"If you ever come West, don't fail to stop off at Ames. It's on the direct route to 'everywhere,' meaning, of course, California."
Donald L. Finlayson is, as you will see from his own statements, enjoying an active and interesting life in and around the hills of Ithaca, N. Y.—
"I'm not quite sure what is fit to print in my past but I'll give you the whole story of my life as a disher-upper of higher learning. It started at Wells College (Aurora, N. Y.—girls college of 250) in 1925 as Asst. Prof, of Art (History of Art to you). Cornell called me from there in 1938 and raised me to full Professor of Art in 1935, and here I am still, in the College of Architecture.
"Summers, until the last one, have been spent usually in taking groups of college students around Europe under the direction of the Bureau of University Travel. T. Y. Crowell brought out my MICHELANGELO THE MAN in 1935. Since then, I've been too busy to follow up with anything.
"That is that. As for graduate training, I got my M.A. at Brown in 1923, took a year at Harvard, then a year as Proctor Fellow at Princeton.
"What I do outside the classroom is to serve on various committees, as chairman of the Library Committee of our College (not the University!) for example, where I get yearly headaches over balancing the budget, etc. I used to be on the Board of the Cosmopolitan Club and of the International Association, and am still on the University Committee on Foreign Students. At the moment I'm on the Student Conduct Committee also. Add to that other minor committee work and a halftime schedule teaching at Elmira College (35 miles by car over roads that should be in Poland or Finland) and you'll see I keep on the jump most of the time.
"The family gets parked at Kennebunk, Maine, in the summer and in the present state of Europe, I summer with them. Drop in on us there next summer."
Russell Whitney wrote me from Boston: "I have been Dean of the School of Business at Northeastern University since July 1, 1935.
"I was very sorry that I was not able to attend the class reunion last June, but the Northeastern Commencement and the Dartmouth Commencement happened to come at exactly the same time. Possibly I shall have better luck when the twentyfifth reunion comes along."
Harwood L. Childs has been Associate Professor of Political Science at Princeton University since 1931 and is Managing Editor of the PUBLIC OPINION QUARTERLY published by the School of Public & International Affairs at Princeton. He is author of LABOR AND CAPITAL IN NATIONAL
POLITICS 30; REFERENCE GUIDE TO THE STUDY OF PUBLIC OPINION '34; PROPAGANDA AND DICTATORSHIP (editor) '36; articles in AM. F. SOCIOL., ANNALS AM. ACAD. POLIT. &
SOC. SCI., ATLANTIC MONTHLY, POLIT. SCI. REV. Here is a direct quotation from his letter:
"I do hope that members of the Class when in the vicinity of Princeton will let me know so we can arrange a meeting. I have usually attended the Dartmouth game when played here, but this year had to turn the tickets over to my daughters. It was a shame as indicated by the fact that one of them came home with the query, 'Daddy, what is a down?'
"And one other thing—do keep me in touch with any class meetings held in the vicinity of New York. Give my best regards to Spider the next time you see him."
John R. Williams tells this about his activities.
"I am teaching at Dartmouth, where I am Professor of History and at present I am Chairman of the Department.
"What research I have done has been published in a number of scattered periodicals. My field of interest is the intellectual history of the Middle Ages. I doubt whether anyone will be interested, but since you ask for them, here are the articles:
" 'William of the White Hands and Men of Letters,' in HASKINS ANNIVERSARY ESSAYS, edited by C. H. Taylor and L. La Monte, Houghton Mifflin Cos., 1929. " 'The Authorship of the Moralium Dogma Philosophorum' in SPECULUM, Vol. 6 0931). PP- 392-411. " 'The Microcosmographia of Trier MS. 1041,' in isis, vol. 22 (1934), pp. 106-135. " 'General Aspects of Mediaeval His- tory,' in the VOLUME Library (1939). "I was also contributing editor to the revised edition of L. J. Paetow's Guide to the Study of Medieval History, Crofts,
Cotty Larmon, with excessive modesty, although he is the Department of Administration at Dartmouth, omits any remarks regarding the extent of his academic accomplishments. At present he appears to be absorbed with the intricacies and mysteries of his new farm and how to make one apple grow where two grew before.
H. M. Chadwell is Chairman of the Dept. of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Tufts College, and is Lecturer at Adult Education Center, Boston. He is a member of the following societies: American Chemical Society, American Ass'n of University Professors, Fellow of the American Ass'n for Advancement of Science, Society for Promotion of Engineering Education, Faraday Society 0f England, Americkn Electrochemical Society. His publications include Papers on physical chemistry in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and Chemical Reviews.
Chaddie's Sabbatical leave from Tufts College in 1931-32 was spent in Germany.
Del Ames is Research Professor in Physiological Optics in the Dartmouth Eye Institute associated with Dartmouth Medical School. His productive work has been extensive, ranking him at the very top in his profession. He is a member of the Optical Society of America, Ames Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Association of Research in Ophthalmology.
A. V. Goldiere, Ph.D., is Professor of French at Davidson College, Davidson, N. C, He received his A.M. at Yale in 1928, and his Ph.D. at Yale in 1936. His Doctoral Thesis, Life and Works ofCharles de Bernard, is in preparation for publication.
This completes the information received so far regarding our academic brethren.
Letters and holiday messages have come in recently from Ray Adams, Watson, Davis, Treat, Martin, Ewart, Chadwell, Carr, Pelletier, Oscar Lewis, K. C. Bevan, Jim Wilson and Tom Reilly.
Walter Cooper was another Pacific Coast traveller last year. He and Bresnahan went out on the same streamliner and while there represented the Class at the Stanford game.
Jim Davis has made a firm New Year's Resolution to collect the ALUMNI MAGAZINE subscriptions. Listen to his appeal"First of all, I wish you'd help me out in the ALUMNI MAGAZINE Notes by a cry for help from the boys. I want them who hasn't to pay their subscription. Tell them to send $2.50 either to James C. Davis, Framingham Centre, Mass., or to the ALUMNI MAGAZINE, Hanover, N. H., it doesn't matter which."
Give Jim a lift if you haven't paid up.
Secretary,2 Park Ave., New York, N. Y.
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