Professor Stewart Retires

WILLIAM K. STEWART, who has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty for 44 years, retired at the close of the June intersession. Mr. Stewart, professor of comparative literature since 1919, was the senior member of all the Dartmouth faculty and has a long and successful record as a teacher.

He is widely read and is proficient in French, German, Italian, Spanish, and the Scandinavian languages. He has visited Europe fifteen times and has spent considerable time there doing research and collecting material for his courses here in comparative literature.

Professor Stewart was born in Hamilton, Ontario, but moved when quite young to California, then to Tennessee and Kentucky. He received his elementary and secondary education in the public schools of the latter state. In 1897 he received his A.B. degree from the University of Toronto, where he majored in modern languages and history, with an extra major in philosophy. He then went to Harvard and received an M.A. in Germanic languages in 1898. The following year he remained at Harvard for further study, at the same time serving as an assistant in German.

In 1899 he came to Dartmouth as an in- structor in German. There followed an assistant professorship and then a full professorship in this department. In 1919 he began teaching his course in comparative literature, which has become one of the most popular literature courses in the College curriculum.

Professor Stewart is well known in the literary field as a reviewer, particularly of foreign books, as a translator, and as an editor. His most recent work is Adventuresin World Literature, which he edited in 1936.

He is a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, the Modern Language Association of America, the Society for Advancement of Scandinavian Studies, and the American Association of University Professors.

COMMANDING OFFICER of the Dartmouth Army medical unit is Col. William T. MacMillan AGD.