Geography Department

IN RECOGNITION of the global character of the war and the responsibilities of the United States in the post-war world, Dartmouth College has expanded its offerings in geography into a new and separate Department of Geography, effective with the semester starting in January.

In announcing this action by the Dartmouth trustees, President Hopkins also made known the appointment of a young Englishman, Dr. Trevor Lloyd of Carleton College, as Assistant Professor of Geography, to give courses in physical and political geography in addition to those which have long been offered here by Dr. Albert S. Carlson, Assistant Professor of Economic Geography. It is expected that some work in cartography will also be included in the new department, which will have full status in the Division of the Social Sciences.

Creation of Dartmouth's new geography department is another important move in the series which the College has made since President Hopkins outlined a program to give students greater opportunity to study world-wide conditions and peoples and to prepare for the enlarged role of the United States in international affairs after the war. Professorships in Chinese and Russian civilizations have been established this fall, and the Committee on Defense Instruction has urged more intensive work in foreign studies, by means of the new modified major in the social sciences, and more continuous study of modern foreign languages.

Dr. Lloyd, who is joining the Dartmouth faculty to aid in this program, was born in London in 1906. He received the degree of Bachelor of Science in Geography from the University of Bristol in 1929, and his Ph.D. from the Graduate School of Geography of Clark University in this country in 1940.

From 1931 to 1938 Dr. Lloyd taught in the schools of Manitoba, Canada, and took an active part in the development of new educational programs in that Province. After two years at Clark University in Worcester, he was named Instructor in Geography at Carleton College last February and was promoted to Assistant Professor in June.