With the Faculty

WITH THE OPENING of the new academic year the Dartmouth faculty will put into operation the streamlined organization that was adopted last spring, following a detailed study and report by a Special Committee on Faculty Organization. The major innovation is the creation of a Faculty Council of forty members, empowered to act for the faculty as a whole in all matters which do not involve a major change in educational policy or procedure. The present Dartmouth faculty of approximately 300 men has proved to be too large a body to serve as a working, functioning group in open meetings, and some form of Council or Senate, similar to those now in operation in most large universities and colleges, was proposed and adopted.

It is mandatory upon the new Council to keep the faculty constantly informed of its actions. The faculty has reserved the right of review, approval or rejection of all such actions; and it also retains the full right of initiating action.

One great benefit of the new organization will be the elimination of routine faculty meetings. Great importance will therefore be attached to what is to be known as the Annual Meeting of the Faculty, scheduled this year for October 14. It will be featured by a "State of the College" report by the President.

A number of administrative officers are ex-officio members of the Council. They include the President, Dean of the Faculty, Dean of the College, Dean of Freshmen, Director of Admissions, Registrar, Director of the Personnel Bureau, Librarian, and Commanding Officer of the NROTC Unit. Their membership is expected to provide "a practicable method for administrative officers and faculty to work together, frankly and intimately, for the educational objectives of the institution."

Other Council members are the three Division chairmen; eight men elected from each of the three Divisions of the Humanities, Social Sciences and Sciences; and four members appointed by the President from the faculty at large. The starting members will serve varying terms of from one to four years, so that new men may serve on the Council each year.

DURING THE FIRST SEMESTER of the academic year 1947-48, the following men will act as temporary chairmen of their departments:

Art and Archaeology—Prof. Artemas Packard.

Botany—Prof. James P. Poole. Geography—Prof. Albert S. Carlson, who will be acting chairman for the second semester also.

Government—Prof. Robert K. Carr '29.

FOLLOWING A SURVEY made last fall, the American Chemical Society has again listed Dartmouth among the colleges and universities deemed to be qualified to offer professional training in chemistry.

THREE BOOKS written by members of the Dartmouth faculty made their appearance during the summer months. Eric P. Kelly '06, Professor of Journalism, is the author of another volume about Poland, this one entitled The Hand in the Picture. Francis E. Merrill '26, Professor of Sociology, and Andrew G. Truxal, Professor of Sociology, are co-authors of The Family inAmerican Culture. Herbert F. West '22, Professor of Comparative Literature, has written The Mind on the Wing (reviewed in this issue), a volume for those who find pleasure in books.

Professor Kelly's illustrated book deals with the great moments of Polish history and is written primarily for young people. The Merrill-Truxal volume, in the words of the authors, is "an attempt to present some of the principal social and cultural aspects of the contemporary middle-class American family, its changing status as a social institution, its impact upon the personalities of its members, and, finally, the forces threatening the stability of this increasingly frail personal relationship."

Professor West in The Mind on theWing deals with the literature of mountaineering, travel books, the nature writers, and war books of the past thirty years. His final chapter presents his own personal list of one hundred great books.

ALBERT L. DEMAREE, Professor of History, -TV gave a lecture on "The History of the Navy at the opening of the Navy Civilian Orientation Course at Columbia University on September 8. A similar talk was given last May by Professor Demaree, who served with the U. S. Naval Reserve from 1942 to 1946, mostly with the Navy Department at Washington, and held the rank of Commander.

THREE MEMBERS of the Department of Physical Education were on the staff of the American Red Cross National Aquatic School at Camp Kiwanis, East Otis, Mass., last month. They were Prof. Sidney C. Hazelton 'O9, and Edward S. Fabian and Edward M. Korb, instructors.

AT THE convention of the American PsyA chological Association in Detroit, September 9-13, Robert M. Bear, Professor of Psychology, presented a paper describing research in connection with development of a new battery of diagnostic reading tests by a committee of which he is a member. Also attending from Dartmouth were Profs. Irving E. Bender and Henry S. Odbert '30.

Carl L. Wilson, Professor of Botany, represented Dartmouth at the meetings of the Botanical Society of America in Montreal in August.