Faculty Notes
Two special meetings of the Dartmouth refaculty were held February 12 and 15, to take up the proposals of the Committee on Educational Policy with regard to the College's postwar curriculum. The Committee, headed by Prof. Charles L. Stone 'l7 of the Psychology Department, brought in its report after a year of study, during which a sub-committee headed by Professor Hugh Morrison '26 of the Art Department did much of the special work.
Donald L. Stone, Professor of Government at Dartmouth, is a member of the organizing committee of a recently formed group called "Pioneers of the Princeton Graduate College." At the suggestion of Lowell Thomas, who was a graduate student at Princeton in 1914, this organization, composed of the original group of graduate students in the Princeton Graduate College, was formed. It is expected that it may become the nucleus of a larger ganization, embracing all men who have taken graduate work at Princeton.
Robert Frost '96, George Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities, represented Dartmouth College at the exercises at which Winston Churchill was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Miami, February 26, at Coral Gables, Florida. Mr. Frost, as he does each year, is spending the winter months in Florida.
Prof. Robert E. Riegel has received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Carroll College, Waukesha, Wis., of which he is a graduate. The LL.D. degree, which is the highest to be given by educational institutions, is held by very few members of the faculty. Professor Riegel was awarded the degree upon the occasion of the 100 th anniversary celebration of Carroll College, from which he graduated in 1919.
Professor Riegel has been in the History Department at Dartmouth since 1922. He took his M.A. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1920, his Ph.D. in 1922. He is an authority on the history of railroads in this country, and is the author of AmericaMoves West.
Professor Andrew Scarlett 'lO who has been in the Chemistry Department in the Biarritz American University in southern France for the past six months has turned to Hanover to resume his teaching duties with the College. He found the golf course in Biarritz warm and sunny, the class rooms chilly, with the temperature often at 40 degrees. Although he frequently lectured in an overcoat, he enjoyed his students, whom he described as the most inspiring group he had ever taught. As he expressed it, "It was a joy to teach a boy who came afraid he could not concentrate, only to discover that he got back quickly into the studying groove. The motivation for learning was perfect."
Seven members of the Dartmouth faculty are returning to their teaching duties March 1 after leaves of absence which represent a variety of war service and experience.
Donald Bartlett '24 Professor of Biography, returns from long wartime service as a Lieutenant Commander in the Naval Reserve; James L. Scott, Professor of German, from Army and defense work; John C. Adams, Assistant Professor of History, from service as Major in the Army; Francis W. Gramlich, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, from service as a Lieutenant in the Navy; Almon B. Ives, Assistant Professor of Public Speaking, also from service as a Lieutenant in the Navy; H. Wentworth Eldredge '3l, Assistant Professor of Sociology, from service in England and Germany as a Major in the Air Corps; and Trevor Lloyd, Professor of Geography, from special work for the Canadian Government in Greenland.
Members of the teaching staff on leave for the spring term are: Fletcher Low 'l5, Professor of Chemistry; Joseph L. McDonald, Professor of Economics; Harold R. Bruce, Professor of Government; John R. Williams 'l9, Professor of History; Erville B. Woods, Professor of Sociology; James F. Crow, Assistant Professor of Zoology; and John M. Hirst '3B, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Thayer School.
Three resignations from the faculty have been tendered by Malcolm C. Henderson, Professor of Physics; Charles B. Arthur '34, Instructor in History and Business Manager of the Dartmouth College Athletic Council; and Robert G. Nelb '35, Instructor in Chemistry.
Professor Henderson, who came to Dartmouth in 1940 and has been on leave during the war to do special research for the government on the Pacific Coast, has accepted a position in Washington in the Scientific Branch of the Military Intelligence Service. Mr. Arthur, well known as "Hafey" from his Dartmouth athletic days, has accepted a position as Instructor in History at Princeton University. He joined the College staff in July 1943 and during the absence of Eddie Jeremiah served as coach of the Dartmouth hockey team.
Three members of the Department of Naval Science and Tactics who have just received discharges are Lt. Comdr. James H. Beardsley, Lt. Comdr. Andrew C. y Marsters, and Lt. John N. Hart 111. Replacements reporting aboard are Lt. Henry
OFFICERS OF THE NEW AIR FORCE ASSOCIATION, who called on President Truman following General James Doolittle's acceptance of the presidency of the organization, include Meryll Frost '44, vice president, and Willis S. Fitch 'l7, executive director. Left to right, in the group are General Doolittle, Fitch, T/Sgt. Forest Vossler, President Truman, Lt. Col. Thomas Lanphier, Frost, and Col. James Stewart.
