With the Faculty
DR. EARL CRANSTON '16, Phillips Professor of Religion, has accepted the office of Dean of the Graduate School of Religion at the University of Southern California, effective at the end of the first semester of 1948-49. During his remaining term of teaching at Dartmouth he will give a new survey course in religion which is being introduced this fall.
As a former faculty member at the neighboring University of Redlands, Professor Cranston is familiar with Southern California and the constituency to which he is going. The Graduate School of Religion which he will head was established 65 years ago and has about one hundred students. It is the only graduate school of religion in southern California and, although affiliated with the Methodist Church, is interdenominational in its work of preparing ministers, teachers, and directors of religious education. Dr. Cranston's duties will involve administration, teaching and public relations.
Professor Cranston took the Phillips Chair of Religion at Dartmouth five years ago. In addition to expressing regret at leaving Hanover for the larger responsibilities of his new position, Professor Cranston last month said, "I am gratified by the improvement in the status of the Department of Religion and of the entire religious outlook at Dartmouth since President Hopkins and Dean Bill asked me to come here five years ago. Whatever gains have been made are due not to any one teacher or to the small group officially concerned with the religious program, but to the interest and effort of the entire college."
ROBERT K. CARR '29, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science at Dartmouth, was one of the principal speakers at the July meeting of the Institute of Race Relations in Nashville, Tenn. He declared that implementation of a federal civil rights program appears certain within the next two years, regardless of which party wins the national election.
Professor Carr, who was executive secretary of the President's Civil Rights Committee, was the author of the lead article, "How to Improve Congressional Inquiries," in The New York Times Magazine of Sunday, August 29.
FORTY-ONE NEW MEN will be among the Dartmouth faculty when the 180 th academic year opens on October 1. The majority of the new teachers, 23 to be exact, will hold the rank of instructor. The one full professor joining the staff is Dr. J. Edward Walters* who resigned as President of Alfred University to become Professor of Management and Industrial Relations at the Tuck School. In this new position he will take over the work of the late Prof. Herman Feldman. Two of the five assistant professors joining the faculty are also Tuck School appointees.
One associate professor—Comdr. John H. Turner USN in the Department of Naval Science—and eleven teaching fellows complete the roster of new faculty for 1948-49. The Department of English, with six new instructors, is experiencing the greatest change in teaching personnel.
THE DARTMOUTH FACULTY COUNCIL, starting its second year as the 40-man "senate" of the faculty as a whole, will have eight new members this fall. Elected by the Division of the Humanities are Charles R. Bagley, Edward Tuck Professor of the French Language and Literature, and Frank G. Ryder, Assistant Professor of German; by the Division of the Social Sciences, Martin L. Lindahl, Professor of Economics, and Henry S. Odbert '30, Professor of Psychology; by the Division of the Sciences, Frank H. Connell '28, Professor of Zoology, Richard H. Goddard '20, Professor of Astronomy, and Douglas M. Bowen, Assistant Professor of Chemistry. Trevor Lloyd, Professor of Geography, has been named a member-at-large.
DR. EARL CRANSTON 'l6, Phillips Professor of Re- ligion, who has been named Dean of the Graduate School of Religion at the University of Southern California. He will remain at Dartmouth until the close of the first semester of 1948-49.
