Chinese Teacher Named

ENLARGEMENT of Far Eastern studies at Dartmouth and appointment of Dr. Chan Wing-tsit of the University of Hawaii to the new post of Lecturer in Chinese Culture, starting this fall, was announced by President Hopkins late in June. This further adjustment of the Dartm outh curriculum to changing world conditions has been made upon the recommendation of the Committee on Defense Instruction.

The addition of Dr. Chan to the Dart- mouth faculty will augment the work here of Prof. David Lattimore, who will retire next year after serving as Professor of Far Eastern Civilization since 1921. Besides giving one or two formal courses, Dr. Chan will be available for informal student discussions and will also give public and classroom lectures.

In commenting upon the importance of Dr. Chan's appointment to the Dartmouth faculty, Dean Bill has stated, "It is certain that in the future American colleges must replace many of the traditional courses based on various European cultures with studies of the Orient. We have decided to start at once to increase the scope of our work in this tremendously important field."

Dr. Chan, who has been Professor of Chinese Philosophy and Institutions at the University of Hawaii since 1935, is one of the most distinguished of native-born Chinese scholars, with interests covering almost every phase of Chinese life and literature. He has written extensively and has delivered over three hundred public addresses on economic, social and political aspects of modern China.

Born in Canton in 1901, Dr. Chan received his education at the Lingnan Middle School of Canton, at Lingnan University, and at Harvard University, where he studied from 1924 to 1929 and where he earned his Ph.D. in the latter year. From 1929 to 1935 he was Dean of the University and Professor of Philosophy at Lingnan. He also was lecturer in philosophy at Sun Yat-sen University in Canton during 1933-34 and lecturer in aesthetics at the Institute of Drama in Canton during 1934-35. In >935 he assumed his present position at the University of Hawaii.

Dr. Chan was married in 1928 to Loi Wai-hing, a graduate of the New England Conservatory. They have two children, a boy and a girl of 'teen age.