Faculty Notes
ROBERT FROST '96, George Ticknor Fellow in the Humanities, has returned to the campus after his annual sojourn in Florida and has resumed his undergraduate seminars. Last fall these were so popular that the number of students meeting with him had to be restricted to workable proportions. This term a few of the seminar sessions will be open meetings for the college community. In addition to his seminars, Mr. Frost usually gives a public reading of his own poetry each term and he is available at his study in Baker Library for individual conferences.
During his stay in Florida this winter Mr. Frost represented Dartmouth at the exercises at which Winston Churchill received an honorary degree from the University of Miami, and gave the address of welcome on that occasion. Recently he made his first radio broadcast on the Army Air Forces program.
Douglas E. Wade, the College Naturalist, has been elected Vice President of the Wildlife Society, the outstanding international professional society for wildlife workers. For the past three years Mr. Wade has served as treasurer and chairman of the finance committee of the Wildlife Society.
Coming to Dartmouth in May 1943, Mr. Wade is chairman of the New Hampshire Recreation Council, and editor and secretary for the New Hampshire Audubon Society. He was instructor in field zoology at the University of Missouri from 1940-43. He has, in addition to his work as College Naturalist, been active with the D.O.C.
Gordon Ferrie Hull Sr., Appleton Professor of Physics, Emeritus, delivered an invited paper on "Fifty Years of Physics, a Study in Contrasts" at the meeting of the American Physical Society at Harvard University on April 27. President Conant of Harvard and President Compton of M.I.T. delivered the other two papers at the same Saturday morning session.
In connection with the national meeting of the American Physical Society at Harvard and M.I.T. on April 25-27, the New England Section of the Society held its annual session at the same time, with Gordon Ferrie Hull Jr. '33, Assistant Professor of Physics, making the arrangements in his capacity as Secretary-Treasurer of the Section.
Arthur B. Meservey '06, Professor of Physics, Willis M. Rayton, Assistant Professor of Physics, and Allen L. King, Assistant Professor of Physics, also represented Dartmouth at the Cambridge meetings.
Prof. John W. Harriman has resigned from the Tuck School faculty to accept a position as Professor of Business Administration in the College of Business Administration at Syracuse University. He will begin his duties there on May 13.
Professor Harriman has been on leave from Tuck School since 1941 and recently returned from the European Theatre where he served as a lieutenant colonel with SHEAF in England and France, and later taught finance at the Army University at Shrivenham. England. At the university he was in charge of courses in finance and insurance and also taught those in investments. Professor Harriman came to the Tuck School as Assistant Professor of Finance and Banking in 1932 and became a full professor in 1938. His first assignment during his war service was with the OPA in Washington. Commissioned as a captain in the Air Corps in April 1942, he was ordered abroad in the fall of 1943 and assigned to active duty with the Technical Training Command.
During the illness of Dean Bill a temporary faculty committee to assist in the handling of the affairs of the Office of the Dean of the Faculty has been named by President Dickey. Prof. Bancroft Brown of the Mathematics Department is chairman of this group and the other two members are Prof. W. Stuart Messer of the Classics Department, now chairman of the Special Committee on Academic Adjustments, and Prof. Andrew G. Truxal of the Sociology Department. All three men have been serving on SCAA and are familiar with plans for the summer and fall terms.
Dean Bill underwent an operation more than a month ago and after a brief return to the office was forced to absent himself again for further recuperation.
