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Faculty Notes

March 1945
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Faculty Notes
March 1945

UNDER THE DIRECTION of Prof. Ray Nash of the Art Department a new Boston and Maine timetable has been designed that the railroad officials believe is "foolproof." Professor Nash and the group of typographical experts which he headed have been experimenting for 28 months with various type faces and layouts in a search for a timetable for the Boston and Maine that can be easily and correctly read. The new simplified and improved edition of the B&M schedule is the result of these efforts and the railroad states that "it is our hope that it will for all time destroy the illusion of many that 'no one can possibly understand one of those complicated things.' The new one is as simple as ABC and a grammar school child can read it easily and correctly."

At the close of the winter term 32 members of the Dartmouth College faculty started leaves of absence which were granted through the spring semester. Two professors who are retiring from the College teaching staff, Charles E. Bolser '97 of the Chemistry Department and Norman E. Gilbert of the Physics Department, were included in the group. The others were as follows:

Professors Artemas Packard, Art Department; James P. Poole, Botany; John B. Stearns '16, Classics: Everett W. Goodhue '00 and Harry P. Bell, Economics; Louis P. Benezet '99, Education; Francis L. Childs '06, Sidney Cox, Henry M. Dargan, F. Cudworth Flint, George L. Frost '21, David Lambuth, Stearns Morse, L. Dean Pearson, Anton A. Raven, Kenneth A. Robinson, Ver- non Hall Jr., English; Andrew H. McNair, Geology; Merle C. Cowden, German; James P. Richardson '00, Government; Arthur H. Basye, Robert E. Riegel, Wayne E. Stevens, History; Arthur B. Meservey '06, Joseph W. Tanch, Physics; Edwin M. Bailor, Irvin E. Bender, Psychology; Howard A. Bradley, Public Speaking; Andrew G. Truxal, Francis E. Merrill '26, Sociology.

A memorial in the form of a lectureship has been established at Connecticut College to the late Dr. Henry Wells Lawrence Jr., former Chairman of the College's History and Government Department, and an instructor in Dartmouth's History Department from 1911 to 1917.