FACULTY PUBLICATIONS

ALL MEMBERS OF KAPPA KAPPA KAPPA, and . all those interested in fraternity life at Dartmouth, should be grateful to Professor James P. Richardson '99 for his work in assembling the centennial history of Kappa Kappa Kappa, an attractively printed volume of 231 pages—("K. K. K. History of the Societyand General Catalog.) Nearly one-half of this valuable volume is devoted to a general catalog of the members of the Society with brief biographical sketches. 1584 Dartmouth men have been members of the fraternity, 842 of whom are living at the present time. Among these is Zeeb Gilman of the, class of 1863, Dartmouth's oldest living graduate. From this catalog we learn that three of Dartmouth's most famous graduates were honorary members of the Society. Rufus Choate was elected to such membership in 1844 and Daniel Webster was also elected at the same time. George P. Marsh was elected in 1845.

In his opening chapter Professor Richardson describes conditions in the United States a hundred years ago, and also the conditions of the college. We learn that there were 340 student when "Tri-Kap" was established July 13, 1842, and that the graduating class that year consisted of 87 men whereas Harvard graduated only 55. These were the halcyon days when tuition was only $27.50 per year, room rent ranged from $lO-515 a year and board was about $2.00 a week. "Tri-Kap" was the second fraternity to be founded at Dartmouth, Psi Upsilon having been founded earlier in the same year. The Society apparently held its meetings in early years in Dartmouth Hall, but in iB6O moved into its own building which was occupied until 1894. This first fraternity building at Dartmouth is still standing and is used as the headquarters of the College Naturalist. In 1894 the Society moved into another home, the former resi- dence of Professor H. E. Parker which stood on the site of Silsby Hall. The old "hall" was, however, used for meeting purposes until 1909. Later, as the college desired the prop- erty of the fraternity for expansion purposes, an exchange of land was made and the frater- nity erected its present house in 1923.

Following the history of the fraternity is a valuable chapter by Professor Fletcher Lowe 'l5, Kappa Athletics. Professor Richardson has carefully gone over all the available So- ciety records, reasonably complete since 1846, and other records kept by the college for ma- terial to be used in this volume. Many direct quotations from these records enhance the value of this history, the writing of which was apparently a work of love on the part of the author.

Upper Devonian Bryozoa by Professor An drew H. McNair has been reprinted from the May issue of the Journal of Paleontology.

The Technique of Introducing Negroes intothe Plant by Professor Herman Feldman ap- pears in the September issue of Personnel.

Recent publications of members of the Dart- mouth Eye Institute are: Watch the Eyes ofthe Teens, by Dr. Kenneth L. Roper, reprinted from The Parents' Magazine, and On the Re-duction of Myopia, by Robert E. Bannon '34, reprinted from the September issue of the Columbia Optometrist.

Professor Bernard Brodie is the author of an article appearing in the September 19th is- sue of the Saturday Evening Post entitled Don't Count Out the Battleships'., and of a chapter entitled Sea Power in Modern War in Modern World Politics, edited by Professor T. V. Kalijarvi.

The July-September issue of the AmericanFern Journal contains an article, A New Dry-opteris Hybrid by Dr. R. M. Tryon.

Latin American Aspects of Post-war Agri-cultural Readjustments by Professor Francis A. Linville, has been reprinted from the Feb- ruary issue of the Journal of Farm Economics.

The April number of Plant Physiology con- tains an article A Non-Osmotic Force in theWater Relations of Potato Tubers DuringStorage, by Professor Charles J. Lyon.