With the Faculty
THE THREE FACULTY MEMBERS whose pictures appear in the left-hand column of this page and the four others whose pictures are on the opposite page were recently honored by the Dartmouth Board of Trustees with election to vacant professorial chairs. These professorships, in some cases dating back to the earliest days of the College, have always been filled by men distinguished in their teaching fields.
The Dartmouth faculty this fall stands at a record total of 301 men for the College and associated schools, as compared with the pre-war average of about 275 men. All but eight of these faculty members are actually teaching this semester, which is also something of a record, since the men on leave of absence for any given term usually number at least twenty. Despite the temporary increase in the size of the student body, the ratio of teachers to students still stands at better than one to ten.
Roy P. Forster, Assistant Professor of Zoology, has been named Editor of the Kidney Section of Biological Abstracts, a. scientific journal which publishes summaries of the most important papers in the field of biology appearing throughout the world. His appointment is a tribute to his prominence in the field of kidney research, in which he has worked for a number of years. Professor Forster is also Director of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Maine, where he is in charge of the summer research programs carried out by scientists from various colleges and universities.
Two members of the Dartmouth faculty have recently completed special surveys for the State of New Hampshire. Michael E. Choukas '27, Professor of Sociology, with the help of a young University of New Hampshire graduate, has filed with the New Hampshire Liquor Research Commission a report on liquor conditions in the State. Based on a ten-week study during the summer, the report deals with a proposed educational program on alcohol, both for the public schools and adults; the rehabilitation of alcoholics; and the curbing of excessive drinking.
The other State survey has been made by William A. Carter 'so, Professor of Economics, who collected data from 121 cities and towns to find out how much construction is in process or planned for the 18-month period from January 1, 1946, to July 1, 1947. The study, made for the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission, disclosed a total of $53,000,000 of public, industrial, mercantile and private construction for that period.
The Inter-American Educational Foundation has recently arranged for the publication in Brazil of a considerable portion of a book of which Francis E. Merrill '26, Professor of Sociology, is co-author. The title of the book is Social Disorganization. It will be translated into Portuguese at the Escola Livre de Sociologia e Politica in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and will appear in the Bibliotica de ciencias sociais, edited at the University of Sao Paulo, and also in a volume entitled (in Portuguese translation) Readings in Sociology and Social Anthropology. This work will be used in institutions of higher learning throughout Brazil and its publication is part of a larger international educational project in furtherance of the Good Neighbor policy in Latin America.
Eric P. Keily '06, professor of journalism, who has been on special wartime leave since 1942, resumed his teaching duties with the start of the fall term. During most of this four-year period he was with the Office of Foreign Relief of the State Department and was stationed in Leon, Mexico, where he was in charge of a cooperative town for Polish refugees. For this work he was decorated by the Polish government in 1944. Long a friend of that country, he has written numerous books about Poland, the most recent of which was From Star to Star, a story of Krakow in the time of Copernicus. Immediately prior to his return to the College, Professor Kelly was busy on further writing at his summer home on Chebeague Island, Maine.
Robert Frost '96, George Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities, opened his annual fall seminar in the Treasure Room of Baker Library on October 22. The group meetings and personal conferences this fall will be especially relevant to students considering the teaching of English as a career. Mr. Frost returned to Hanover from Kenyon College, where he represented Dartmouth at a conference on "The Heritage of the English-Speaking Peoples and Their Responsibility."The Ohio college honored him last year with the degree of Doctor of Laws.
Hugh S. Morrison '26, Professor of Art, who wrote the book Louis Sullivan,Prophet of Modern Architecture, prepared for the American Institute of Architects the following citation for the posthumous award of the Institute's Gold Medal to Mr. Sullivan:
To Louis SULLIVAN we render honor: His profession of Architecture was a lifetime dedication of all his energies of mind and spirit.
By esteeming practical requirements as aesthetic responsibilities he unfolded a new discipline of design.
He believed that the dimensions of American architecture are the dimensions of American life, and thus directed us to an art of, by, and for our own people. He approached each task afresh, believing that each problem contains and suggests its own solution.
He demanded of himself an emotional and spiritual expenditure to endow each building with its own identity of beauty. He attacked entrenched beliefs. He repudiated false standards. He scorned the stylistic gods of the marketplace.
He fought almost alone in his generation, lived unhappilly, and died in poverty.
But because he fought, we today have a more valiant conception of our art. He helped to renew for all architects the freedom to originate and the responsibility to create. The' standards he set have contributed much to the achievement of today and will augment the promise of tomorrow.
We render to Louis Sullivan this grateful tribute, highest honor of our profession, the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.
Development of Dartmouth's growing map collection and better utilization of the collection as a teaching aid, particularly for the Department of Geography, have been made possible with the arrival this semester of Van Harvey English as Assistant Professor of Geography and Curator of Maps. Professor English, who graduated from Colorado State College of Education in 1939 and did graduate work in geography at Clark University, served as geographer and cartographer for the Office of Strategic Services, with the rank of Army captain, from 1942 to 1945. During the following year he was with the Department of State and in this capacity attended the meeting of the Allied Commission on Reparations in Moscow in June and July of !945 and also the Potsdam Conference in July and August of the same year.
Harold R. Bruce, Professor of Government, spoke to the University Forum of Cleveland oil the night of October 29. His topic was "The Conflict Between Communism and Democracy." He had two other speaking engagements the same day, addressing a student assembly at Western Reserve Academy in the morning and a meeting of the Dartmouth Club of Cleveland at luncheon.
HENRY McCUNE DARGAN Wiflard Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory
LEON BURR RICHARDSON 'OO New Hampshire Professor of Chemistry
CHARLES RUTHERFORD BAGLEY Edward Tuck Professor of the French Language and Literature
DEMOCRATIC STATE CHAIRMAN. One member of the Dartmouth faculty who cannot be accused of occupying an ivory tower is Herbert W. Hill, Pro- fessor of History, who as Democratic state chair- man in New Hampshire is in the thick of the cur- rent political campaign. He has been director of Hanover Holiday for several years.
LOUIS LAZARE SILVERMAN Professor of Mathematics on the Chandler Foundation
FRANCIS LANE CHILDS 'O6 Winkley Professor of the Anglo-Saxon and English Language and Literature
WILLIAM KELLEY WRiGHT Stone Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy
BANCROFT HUNTINGTON BROWN Cheney Professor of Mathematics
