Trustees Meet

THE DARTMOUTH BOARD OF TRUSTEES, holding its annual fall meeting in Hanover on November 10, devoted morning and afternoon sessions to a long docket covering fiscal matters, degrees, faculty changes, and special reports on postwar projects.

In approving the budget for 1944-45 members of the Board heard the Treasurer's report of an expected deficit of at least $300,000 for the current year, because of reduced V-12 enrollment this term and an expected further reduction in March.

Among faculty matters, the Trustees voted the rank of full professor to Dr. Clark W. Horton, with a change in title from Assistant to Consultant in Educat ional Research. Two other changes in title, adding new men to the Department of Government, were approved for Dayton D. McKean, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, who becomes Assistant Professor of Government, and for Arthur M. Wilson, Professor of Biography, whose new title is Professor of Biography and Government. Both men, on leave this term, will fill roles in the Department's postwar program.

Bachelor degrees were voted by the Board to a total of 105 men in the classes of 1942 through 1946, six of these being awarded for the first time upon recommendation of the Special Committee on Academic Adjustments, which has been empowered to handle matters of courses and degrees for Dartmouth servicemen outside of the regular faculty channels. Also awarded were six faculty honorary degrees of Master of Arts, in privatim, to Profs. Albert S. Carlson, James F. Cusick, Sidney C. Hazelton, Clark W. Horton, Trevor Lloyd, and Elmer E. Smead.

By vote of the Board, the agreement whereby Thayer School work in the seventh and eighth semesters is counted toward the A.B. degree was expanded for the duration, or such period as determined by the President, to allow credit for such courses taken any time after the second term; and in cases of men who have taken three or four terms in Thayer School plus a minimum of four terms in the College it was voted to award the Bachelor of Science degree, restricting the normal Bachelor of Arts degree to men who have taken a minimum of six terms in the College plus two terms in Thayer School. Students with less than four terms in the College will be awarded the diploma of the Thayer School with the appropriate degree to which their academic credit entitles them.

In announcing the standing committees of the Trustees for 1944-45, President Hopkins reestablished the Committee on Physical Development of the Plant with the following membership: Edward S. French '06, chairman; President Hopkins, Dr. John F. Gile '16, Harvey P. Hood '18, and Halsey C. Edgerton '06, College treasurer, ex officio.

Other committee membership follows:

Executive Committee—John R. McLane '07, chairman; President Hopkins, Mr. French, Dr. Gile.

Committee on Degrees—Dr. Arthur H. Ruggles '02, chairman; President Hopkins, William W. Grant '03, Dudley W. Orr '29, Nelson A. Rockefeller 30.

Committee on Investments—Victor M. Cutter '03, chairman; President Hopkins, William J. Minsch '07, Mr. McLane, Mr. French, Mr. Hood.