Hanover Conferences

THE WEEK-END OF October 17-18 proved to be a busy one for Hanover despite Dartmouth's exodus to Harvard to cheer the team. Two engineering conferences and a meeting of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers were held at the College on Friday and Saturday.

Four hundred members of the New England Section of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education gathered at Thayer School on Saturday, October 18, for their annual fall meeting. Engineering librarians met at the same time and discussed plans for cooperation and organization. Dean Frank W. Garran of Thayer School of Civil Engineering was chairman of the committee in charge of conference arrangements and assisting him were Profs. William P. Kimball '2B, Edward S. Brown '34, and Kenneth K. Edgar, and Millett G. Morgan, all of Thayer School. The speakers at the general session of the Society were David C. Prince, president of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, and Arthur Fleming, United States Civil Service Commissioner. Prof. Gordon H. Gliddon of the Dartmouth Eye Institute spoke at the dinner session. Prof. Bancroft H. Brown of the Mathematics department was among those who delivered papers at the morning session of the conference.

The Saturday engineering gathering was proceeded by a meeting on Friday, October 17, of representatives from northern New England institutions offering Engineering, Science, Management Defense Training in the defense program sponsored by the U. S. Office of Education. Principal speakers at Friday's gathering were Dean E. L. Moreland of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, regional director of the ESMDT program; Dean George W. Case of the University of New Hampshire Engineering School, now connected with the U. S. Office of Education; and Ralph E. Flanders of Springfield, Vt., president of the Jones and Lamson Machine Company and head of the New England Council.

On Saturday, the College was host at a luncheon in Thayer Hall to sixty members of the New England Association of Chemistry Teachers, gathered in Hanover for their 211th meeting. Prof. Elden B. Hartshorn '12 was in charge of arrangements for the sessions which were held in Steele Hall during the morning and afternoon. Among the speakers at the conference were Prof. Harold M. Bannerman of the Geology department whose topic was "Industrial Minerals of New Hampshire" and Prof. Andrew J. Scarlett '10 of the Chemistry department, who discussed "Valence and lonization."