Faculty Notes

DEAN HERLUF V. OLSEN '22 of the Tuck School has accepted an appointment as Assistant Director of the Study of Higher Education for the Committee on Education of the House of Representatives.

The purpose of the study is to determine how the Federal Government can help institutions of higher learning during the present emergency and through future situations arising from it. It is expected that the study will be completed within- two months, the work being facilitated by the appointment of Dean Olsen who has had a wide experience in Washington in the field of higher education and with the collegiate schools of business administration throughout the country.

Dr. Trevor Lloyd, Professor in the Department of Geography, granted special leave of absence from the College, is now in Godthaab, Greenland, on a wartime assignment for the Canadian government. As a specialist in the study of the Arctic regions, Prof. Lloyd is preparing a report on the post-war development of northern Canada for the Canadian Institute of International Affairs. Together with Dean Bill he has also recently taken part in the formulation of plans for the newly organized Arctic Institute of North America. Prof. Lloyd with his wife and 7-year-old daughter Mona was flown to his new post by the Royal Canadian Air Force the latter part of October.

Robert Frost '96, America's greatest living poet, returns to Dartmouth to resume on November 12 his series of informal conferences with Dartmouth students. Following his appointment in 1943 as Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities, Mr. Frost began this annual period of extracurricular work with the College undergraduates. His headquarters are again to be in a special study in Baker Library during the three weeks he will be in Hanover.

The conferences with the poet, which proved so valuable to the students last year, will be held this year twice weekly on Tuesday and Thursday evenings and will be supplemented by personal conferences each morning.

Russell R. Larmon '19, Professor of Administration on the Benjamin Ames. Kimball Foundation, will return to the College on November 1. He was on leave of absence during the year 1943 and part of 1944 to serve as Director of the New Hampshire Office of Price Administration.

Leon B. Richardson '00, Professor of Chemistry, has been appointed by Governor Blood to serve on the New Hampshire War Records Committee.

Professor Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture, attended the Fifth Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion in New York City, September 9 and 10 and presented a paper on the intellectual basis of a peaceful Japan. The paper will be published in a forthcoming symposium.