PROFESSORS RETIRE
Bolser and Gilbert End Noted Teaching Careers
THE SENIOR MEMBER of the Dartmouth College faculty, Prof. Charles E. Bolser '97 of the Chemistry Department, and the third in rank of seniority, Prof. Norman E. Gilbert of the Physics Department, retired from their teaching duties in the College at the close of the Winter Term last month. Both professors have been actively engaged in the Navy V-12 Training Program in addition to their regular assignments.
Professor Bolser, after serving as principal of the North Berwick (Me.) High School, joined the College teaching staff as instructor in chemistry in 1901, the same year in which he received his Ph.D. from Goettingen University in Germany. He was appointed assistant professor in 1904 and became a full professor in 1914. At the time of his retirement, he was Professor of Organic Chemistry in the College and Professor of Physiological Chemistry in the Medical School.
During his undergraduate years at Dartmouth, which bring his total years of association with the College to nearly fifty, Professor Bolser as captain of the track team held the New England intercollegiate record for the half-mile run. His interest in athletics continued after he became a member of the faculty. From 1901 to 1917 he was a member and then chairman of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council and assisted greatly in developing the College's recreational program. He was one of the pioneer members of the Outing Club Council and from his suggestions came the idea for Outdoor Evening of Winter Carnival as well as the name Cabin and Trail.
Professor Bolser in his student days rekins, ceived academic honors as well as athletic titles. He won honorable mention in his major subject, chemistry* and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. As a professor his teaching has always been distinguished by his insistence on patience, diligence and a high degree of accuracy from his students. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Ouroboros Club, Sigma Chi, and Gamma Alpha.
A pioneer in chemical blood analysis, Professor Bolser eventually added duties at the hospital to his teaching schedules at the College and Medical School. He has also written reviews, articles, a laboratory manual and given talks before his professional colleagues as well as speaking frequently at Dartmouth alumni meetings.
He was born in 1875 in Amesbury, Mass., of a New England family in the carriage making business. A relative and former Dartmouth trustee, Rear Admiral John R. Eastman '62, persuaded him to come to the College and he entered in the same year that Dr. William Jewett Tucker became the head of Dartmouth.
GILBERT PROFESSOR SINCE 1903
Professor Gilbert first came to the College in 1903 as Assistant Professor of Physics. He was made an Associate Professor in 1916 and a full Professor in 1918, when Dartmouth also awarded him an honorary A.M.
Before coming to Dartmouth, Professor Gilbert taught at the Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, N. Y., and the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N. Y., during the years 1896 to 1898. At Johns Hop where he undertook his graduate work and received his Ph.D. degree, he was a University Scholar from 1899 to 1900 and a Fellow from 1900 to 1901. Just prior to his Dartmouth appointment, Dr. Gilbert was Professor of Physics at Hobart College.
He accompanied the United States Naval Observatory Eclipse Expedition to North Carolina in 1900 as assistant astronomer and has been on other expeditions under the same auspices to observe and study the eclipse of the sun at Solak, Sumatra, in 1901, and at Guehna, Algeria, in 19°5-
Professor Gilbert is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Astronomical Society. From 1917 to 1919 he was national president of Gamma Alpha (graduate scientific) fraternity. He is also a member of Delta Tau Delta.
He has written two books: Electricityand Magnetism and, in collaboration with Professor Murch, Elementary College Physics and Laboratory Manual. He has also written numerous scientific papers including Some Experiments Upon RelationsBetween Ether, Matter, and Electricity and Eclipse Phenomena. In the years 1910, 1925, and 1931, Professor Gilbert studied at Cambridge University, England.
Dartmouth's distinguished physicist was born in Middletown, Conn., on December 15, 1874, and is a graduate of Wesleyan University with the Class of 1895. He holds, with his other graduate degrees, an A.M. from Wesleyan which he was awarded in 1896.
Upon Professor Bolser's retirement, Professor Leon Burr Richardson '00, also of the Chemistry Department, became the senior member of the college faculty.
TWO SCIENCE PROFESSORS RETIRE after long and distinguished teaching careers at Dartmouth. Professor Charles E. Bolser '97 (left) of the Chemistry De- partment, senior member of the College faculty, and Professor Norman E. Gilbert of the Physics Department, third in rank of seniority, left the College teach- ing staff at the close of the last term. Both professors have given courses in the Navy V-12 Training Program as well as in the College.
