Faculty Notes
OXFORD UNIVERSITY has invited Prof. Charles Bagley of the French Department to be visiting lecturer and tutor there during the academic year starting October 14. The College has granted its distinguished faculty member special leave of absence during the coming March and November terms so that he may accept this honor. He will give five series of lectures on French classicism and the history of ideas in France.
Professor Bagley, who was a Rhodes Scholar at St. John's College, Oxford, and recipient of a B.A. degree with honors, B. Litt. degree, and an M.A. from the English university, was elected Professor of French at Dartmouth in 1932.
Prof. James W. Goldthwait of the Geology Department was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Science by the University of New Hampshire at the University's commencement exercises in June.
The degree was conferred on Professor Goldthwait as "an outstanding contributor to our knowledge of New Hampshire geology, dean of New Hampshire geologists, and a man of international reputation in his field of science."
Norman Rian, Instructor in Music, relinquished direction of the Dartmouth Glee Club to take over as graduate secretary of the Dartmouth Christian Union at the beginning of the new term. Mr. Rian will continue to teach music and direct the Band.
A change in title from Professor of Italian and Comparative Literature to Professor of Belles Lettres has been voted George C. Wood h'34. Under his new title Professor Wood wiil be relieved of a part of his teaching duties in order that he may devote more time to the College's program of increasing development of Baker Library as an important adjunct to its teaching facilities.
Thirty-eight members of the College faculty have been granted extensions of their special leaves for wartime services. The men, whose war assignments are either of a military or civilian nature are:
Donald Bartlett '24, Professor of Biography; Arthur M. Wilson, Professor of Biography and Government; }. Milton McDaniel, Professor of Economics; Francis A. Linville, Assistant Professor of Economics; Harry L. Purdy, Professor of Economics; Ralph A. Burns, Professor of Education: George L. Scott '25, Assistant Professor of Education; Eric P. Kelly '06, Professor of Journalism; John Hurd '22, Assistant Professor of English; Arthur E. Jensen, Assist- ant Professor of English; Thomas H. Vance, Assistant Professor of English; Dean Chamberlin '26, Instructor in English: Joel W. Egerer, Instructor in English; John W. Finch, Instructor in English; Harold M. Bannerman, Pro- fessor of Geology; Richard E. Stoiber '32, Assistant Professor of Geology; James L. Scott, Professor of German; Herbert R. Sensenig '28, Assistant Professor of German; Albert L. Demaree, Professor of History; John C. Adams, Assistant Professor of .History; W. Raymond Kendall, Assistant Professor of Music; Francis W. Gramlich, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; Harold M. Evans, Assistant Professor of Physical Education; Elliot B. Noyes '32, Instructor in Physical Education; Malcolm C. Henderson, Professor of Physics; Willis M. Ray ton, Assistant Professor of Physics; Charles P. Hadley '41, Instructor in Physics; Henry S. Odbert '30, Assistant Professor of Psychology; Ross Stagner, Assistant Professor of Psychology; Almon B. Ives, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking; Alberto Vazquez, Assistant Professor of Romance Languages; George E. Diller, Assistant Professor of French; Reginald F. Brown, Instructor in Spanish; Ramon Guthrie, Professor of French; Robert A. McKennan '25, Professor of Sociology; H. Wentworth Eldredge '31, Assistant Professor of Sociology; Michael E. Choukas '27, Professor of Sociology; and Frank H. Connell '28, Professor of Zoology.
