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WITH the retirement of Professor William Stuart Messer as Chairman of the Special Committee on Academic Adjustments on March 1, there comes to a temporary rest one of the busiest administrative-teaching careers on the Dartmouth College faculty. Professor Messer, who will be on leave of absence from March 1, will be succeeded by Professor Herbert R. Sensenig '28 as Chairman of SCAA.

An active teacher for over 40 years and current occupant of the chair of the Daniel Webster Professorship of the Latin Language and Literature, Professor Messer began taking on special administrative tasks as soon as the threat of war loomed in Europe. In 1939 he became chairman of the Press and Writing Section of the American Defense Dartmouth Group, later be coming chairman of the entire Group. In 1941 he was named vice-chairman of the Committee on Defense Instruction, functioning directly under President Hopkins.

During this period, Professor Messer was dividing his time between teaching and administrative duties, but not long after the Trustees formed SCAA (June 9, 1944) as the sole agent in dealing with admission and curricular problems of the veterans, he temporarily abandoned teaching to devote full time to this important task. During the V-12 teacher shortage he conducted classes in English, Physics and Greek. After nearly three years as SCAA's chairman and two away from the classroom, he has requested leave of absence to "brush up on my scholarship" preparatory to resuming teaching of the classics. Professor Messer at present is chairman of the Faculty Committee on Nominations and one of the three members of the Temporary Committee on the Dean of the Faculty's Office.

Professor Sensenig, the new chairman of SCAA, has been serving as vice-chairman under Professor Messer in recent months, while continuing to teach German.

PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S Committee on Civil Rights to which President John Sloan Dickey was named in December took on another Dartmouth aide when it was recently announced that Robert K. Carr '29, Professor of Government, had been appointed as executive secretary of the committee. Professor Carr has been granted leave of absence for the second semester and Professor Dayton D. McKean has been named Acting Chairman of the Department of Government in his place.

Professor Carr's duties embrace the supervision of the committee's paid secretariat and management of their offices in Washington, D. C. He is no stranger to the civil liberties field, having been engaged for two years in a study of the civil rights problem under the sponsorship of Cornell Research in Civil Liberties, a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. His particular field has been the Civil Rights Section of the Department of Justice.

After receiving his A.B. from Dartmouth in 19-29, Professor Carr went on to Harvard for graduate study and received his M.A. in 1930 and his Ph.D. in 1935. He was an instructor in government at the University of Oklahoma from 1931-37, returning to Dartmouth in the latter year as an instructor and being promoted to assistant professor in 1938. Two books, Democracyand the Supreme Court and State Controlof Local Finance in Oklahoma, have been published under his authorship.

Ross STAGNER, Assistant Professor of Psychology, is the author of a chapter on Public Opinion and Propaganda in a volume on Psychology in Human Affairs, recently published by McGraw-Hill. Professor Stagner's chapter consists of a brief summary of the main techniques in the study of public opinion, followed by a consideration of the effects of propaganda, education, economic conditions and various emotional states in determining public opinion.

A graduate of Washington University, St. Louis, with the B.A. degree, Professor Stagner received both the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Wisconsin, the latter in 1932. A frequent contributor to scientific and educational periodicals, and an author (Psychology of Personality, McGraw-Hill, 1937), his most recent contributions have been two articles, one on the psychology of war and one on Nationalism, to the Encyclopaedia of Psychology (Philosophical Library, 1946) and another to the Encyclopaedia Britannica on personality.

Professor Stagner has more than the academician's interest and knowledge in the psychology of personnel relations, as is proved by the fact that from 1943 until last year he was on leave from Dartmouth as assistant personnel manager with the Koppers Company of Pittsburgh, manufacturers of coke and coke by-products. Last summer he was invited by General Motors Corporation to participate in their two week Institute on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations. He has been a member of the faculty of Dartmouth since 1939

SEVERAI. faculty appointments and leaves of absence have been announced by the President's Office for the second semester of the current academic year.

Millett G. Morgan, former instructor in power engineering at Thayer School, returned as of February 15, after completing Ph.D. studies at Stanford University, to take up a position as Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering at Thayer. A graduate of Cornell with the B.A. degree with honors in physics, Professor Morgan received the M.Sc. in engineering from Cornell in 1938 and the E.E. from Stanford the following year.

Three recent graduates of Dartmouth, all of whom received their degrees at the conclusion of the term which ended in February, were added to the faculty at the rank of instructors for the second semester. Robert C. Beetham '45, a veteran of 53 months' Naval service, and Colin Gunn '45, also a Navy veteran of 56 months' service, have received appointments as parttime instructors in economics. Daniel F. Seacord Jr. '42, ex-lieutenant-commander, Naval Reserve, has been named an assistant in physics.

Prof. Robert A. McKennan '25 is serving as Acting Chairman of the Division of the Social Sciences in place of Prof. Robert E. Riegel who is on leave for the second semester. In addition to Professor Riegel, Professors Robert K. Carr '29, Malcolm Keir, and William Stuart Messer are on leave for the second semester. Professors Bancroft H. Brown and Albert S. Carlson and Assistant Curator Elmer Harp have returned from first-semester leave.

ANOTHER REVIVAL from prewar days was speed- skating on Occom Pond. In this picture the racers are rounding a turn in the 440 event Saturday.

THE BEST FRATERNITY SNOW SCULPTURE, in the estimation of the judges, was Theta Delta Chi's version of Mr. O'Malley at the end of a downhill run which left ski tracks on both sides of a hillside tree.

THREE MEMBERS OF DARTMOUTH'S WINNING SKI TEAM IN ACTION. Left, Captain Phil Puchner '44 in the slalom, in which he was Bth after winning the downhill; center, Chris Bugge '49, Norwegian student, in the jump; and right, Malcolm McLane '46 in the downhill, in which he captured third place. Right after the Carnival meet Puchner left for the Nationals and the Olympic Trials at Sun Valley, while McLane flew to Europe to compete in Switzerland, Italy and France.

ON SPECIAL LEAVE for the present semester, Robert K. Carr '29, Professor of Government, is serving as executive secretary of President Truman's Civil Rights Committee, to which President Dickey was named with other leading citizens in December.

RETIRING CHAIRMAN AND HIS SUCCESSOR. Wm. Stuart Messer (right), Daniel Webster Professor of the Latin Language and Literature, resigned March 1 as head of the Special Committee on Academic Adjust- ments, dealing with veterans' academic affairs, and was succeeded by Herbert R. Sensenig '2B (left), Assist- ant Professor of German, who has aided him in recent months. For Professor Messer, who is on special leave this term, the end of this important assignment marked the close of a five-year stretch of top responsibilities in the planning and direction of various defense, war and postwar activities of the College.

PSYCHOLOGIST. Professor Ross Stagner, who joined Dartmouth's psychology staff in 1939, is one of the most productive members of the faculty. His latest writing deals with Public Opinion and Propaganda.