With the Faculty
THE SIZE of the Dartmouth faculty is something that somehow manages to defy exactness—depending on how one interprets the borderline cases—but now that the official directory for 1947-48 is out (thanks to the efforts of our business manager, William T. Maeck '43) the ALUMNI MAGAZINE is able to count up its own total of 327 men as the teaching faculty. There can be no controversy over the fact that this is the largest teaching staff in Dartmouth's history. Despite this fall's record enrollment of 3,001 men, the ratio of approximately one teacher to each nine students is still being maintained by the College.
THE FACULTY of Tuck School, through its Committee on Research, has recently put out its fifth revision of A Reading List on Business Administration. To meet requests from alumni and others, and to assist business concerns in establishing libraries for staff use, the reading list suggests hundreds of books, periodicals and sources in nine broad fields of business administration and is the largest edition yet prepared by Tuck School. It sells for 50 cents.
THE HIGHLY FAVORABLE RECEPTION given throughout the nation to the report To Secure These Rights submitted to President Truman by his Committee on Civil Rights was in part a tribute to the job done by Robert K. Carr '29, Professor of Government. As executive secretary of the Committee and head of a professional staff of twelve who assisted in the civil rights study, he had a major hand in the excellence of the report.
AT THE ANNUAL CONVZNTION of the AmerA ican Psychological Association in Detroit this fall, Ross Stagner, Professor of Psychology, was elected secretary-treasurer of the Division of Personality and Social Psychology.
No MEMBER of the Dartmouth faculty devotes more of his spare time to community and regional affairs than Albert S. Carlson, Professor of Geography and acting head of his department. He is executive secretary of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region Association, which is concerned with the industrial, agricultural and recreational development of the area, and this past summer he was named chairman of a special committee on industry surveys for the New England Council. Professor Carlson, whose special field is economic geography, is a frequent speaker at New England meetings, and last spring he addressed the U. S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington on the subject of industrial promotion. He is a graduate of Clark University (1929), where he also took his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in geography.
ANOTHER MEMBER of the Dartmouth geo graphy department, Prof. Trevor Lloyd, is now in Canada, on special leave for the year, in order to assist the Canadian government in setting up a new Geograpic Bureau for the development of that country's resources in the Far North. As temporary chief of the bureau, Professor Lloyd has the task of organizing it, planning its work and rounding up a qualified staff. The main objective of the agency will be to discover just what resources the Canadian government has accessible for development.
Professor Lloyd, who is one of the leading members of the recently formed Arctic Institute of North America, has specialized in the geographic study of the Canadian Arctic and sub-Arctic regions. He has carried out a number of important assignments for the Canadian government and in 1945-46 was given leave of absence from Dartmouth to serve as Canadian consul in Greenland.
DAYTON D. MCKEAN, Professor of Government and department chairman, was one of the principal speakers in September at a conference on "The Citizen's Participation in Public Affairs," sponsored jointly by the American Bar Association, the American Political Science Association, and the School of Law of New York University. His topic was "The Citizen, the Bosses and State Government."
Bancroft H. Brown, Cheney Professor of Mathematics, was the principal speaker November 1 at the fall meeting of the Connecticut Valley Section of the Association of Teachers of Mathematics in New England. He discussed "A College Program of Mathematics Adapted to General Education" and at another session spoke on Dartmouth's new one-semester math course designed for students not majoring in science.
Other faculty members who have represented Dartmouth at educational meetings in recent months include: Gordon Ferrie Hull Jr. '33, Assistant Professor of Physics, at a meeting of the American Optical Society in Cincinnati, and also at a conference of the Navy Industrial Association in New York; Dimitri von Mohrenschildt, Professor of Russian History and Literature, at a meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and Eastern European Languages at Yale; William W. Ballard '2B, Professor of Zoology, at a conference on biology and medicine at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Patchoque, N. Y.; Frank H. Connell '28, Professor of Zoology, at the American Surgeons Meeting in Boston; and F. Cudworth Flint, Professor of English, who read a paper at a meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics at the Baltimore Fine Arts Museum, attended a cultural conference at Kenyon College by invitation of that college, and presented another paper on "Aesthetic Judgment" at the New England regional meeting of the College English Association in Boston.
Maurice Mandelbaum '29, Professor of Philosophy, will give a paper at a Conference on Methods and Philosophy in the Sciences, December 7, at the New School for Social Research in New York.
INDUSTRIAL PROMOTER: Albert S. Carlson, Professor of Geography, who heads a special committee on industry surveys for the New England Council.
NOTED EXPLORER ADDED TO MUSEUM STAFF: Dr. Valhjalmur Stefansson conducts a seminar on the Far North in the College's new Arctic program.
