With the Faculty
THREE MEMBERS Of the Dartmouth faculty were among the recently announced recipients of Guggenheim Fellowships for 1948-49. They are Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture; Roy P. Forster, Assistant Professor of Zoology and Chairman of the Division of the Sciences; and Hugh S. Morrison '26, Professor of Art.
Professor Chan will use his grant to prepare a book on Neo-Confucianism in China from the 11th to the 20th centuries. This project will involve his going to China for part of the coming year. The subject of Neo-Confucianism is one on which Dr. Chan has already written in H. F. McNair's China, a symposium by 33 American and Chinese scholars.
Professor Forster will do research in the biochemistry of kidney functions and next winter will go to Europe for two months of work before continuing his project at the Bermuda Station for Biologicai Research and the Mt. Desert Island Biological Laboratory, of which he has been director for the past several summers. He is editor of the kidney section of Biological Abstracts and has published many articles on his specialty in scientific journals.
Professor Morrison, author of LouisSullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture, will use his Guggenheim Fellowship to write a book on the history of American architecture from Colonial times to the present. He will do most of his work at Dartmouth, utilizing the Baker and Carpenter art libraries.
JOHN G. GAZLEY, Professor of History, is serving as one of the consultants for the Institute on the United Nations which Mount Holyoke College will hold at South Hadley this summer from June 20 to July 17. The study of international organizations has been one of Professor Gazley'special interests for a number of years.
WILLIAM W. BALLARD '28, Professor of Zoology and Professor of Embryology in the Medical School, has been appointed Associate Director of the Great Issues Course for 1948-49, succeeding Arthur M. Wilson, Professor of Government and Biography. In order to take on this special assignment as associate to President Dickey, who will again serve as course director, Professor Ballard will drop the teaching of his regular courses next year.
Two new faculty members of the Great Issues steering committee for 1948-49 are William P. Kimball '28, Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering, and Louis L. Silverman, Professor of Mathematics on the Chandler Foundation. Other members of the committee will be Arthur E. Jensen, Professor of English; Earl R. Sikes, Professor of Economics; Alexander Laing '25, Assistant Librarian; and Richard W. Morin '24, Executive Officer of the College, who recently succeeded Thomas W. Braden '40 as executive secretary of the course.
ROBERT M. BEAR, Professor of Psychology the author of a chapter entitled "The Educationally Backward" in the recently published volume, An Introduction to Clinical Psychology, edited by Pennington and Berg and published by The Ronald Press Company.
On March 31 Professor Bear was one of the leading participants in a panel on adult reading problems at the Reading Conference held at Illinois Institute of Technology. This is a field in which he has done a great deal of special work, both at Dartmouth and beyond the campus.
Two DARTMOUTH PROFESSORS, Frederick W Sternfeld of the Music Department and Vernon Hall Jr. of the Comparative Literature Department, are respectively the editor and assistant editor of Baker Library's new publication, RenaissanceNews. Volume 1, Number 1 of a new series came out February 2. Before the Library took over as publisher for the Committee on Renaissance Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies, which still authorizes the journal, Professor Sternfeld in 1946 and 1947 had produced four printed issues and one mimeographed issue.
Renaissance News reports on regional conferences, lists important acquisitions in the Renaissance field by various libraries, describes studies in progress to encourage exchange of information and reduce duplication, and carries brief reviews and news from correspondents in this country and abroad. Subscriptions at one dollar a year may be obtained by writing to Box 832, Hanover.
H GORDON SHILLING, Assistant Professor . of Government, was invited by Oberlin College to take part in a symposium held there on April 9. Together with Dean Acheson, former Under Secretary of State and a lecturer in Dartmouth's Great Issues Course, he led a discussion meeting on the topic of "The Russian Problem in American Foreign Relations."
DONALD E. COBLEIGH '23, who resigned his Dartmouth professorship last year, has been named Acting Head of the Music Department at Wilkes Colleges in Pennsylvania.
HENRY B. WILLIAMS, Assistant Professor of English and Director of the Experimental Theatre, has been named a member of the faculty of the Wellesley Summer Theatre and School at Wellesley College. He will instruct the students in Production Techniques.
JAMES F. CROW, Assistant Professor of Zoology and Assistant Professor of Preventive Medicine and Parasitology in the Medical School, will resign his Dartmouth faculty post at the end of this academic year to accept a position at the University of Wisconsin. There he will be able to broaden the research which he has been carrying on in the field of genetics. Since joining the Dartmouth faculty in 1941 he has steadily increased his reputation as a research scientist and has been one of the College's most effective teachers.
AN ARTICLE by John W. Masland, Professor of Government, dealing with "Postwar Government and Politics in Japan," forms part of a new textbook, Postwar Government and Politics in the FarEast (Kallam Publishing Co.). Professor Masland formerly served in Tokyo as civilian political adviser to General MacArthur. In mid-February he attended a conference in Washington called by the International Studies Group of the Brookings Institution to review the Institution's program of international studies, including plans for the 1948 Seminar to be held at Stanford University in June.
AT THE APRIL MEETING Of the Dartmouth IX Board of Trustees, thirty members of the faculty were granted leave of absence for varying periods of the academic year 1948-49. Only two men will be away for the entire year: John Pelenyi, Professor of Government, and Philip E. Wheelwright, Professor of Philosophy.
First-semester leave will be taken by the following professors: Hugh S. Morrison '26, Art; Vernon Hall Jr., Comparative Literature; Lloyd P. Rice, Economics; F. Cudworth Flint and Kenneth A. Robinson, English; Richard E. Stoiber '32, Geology; Stephan J. Schlossmacher, German; Elmer E. Smead, Government: Allen R. Foley '20, History; Edwin M. Bailor, Psychology; Michael E. Choukas '27, Sociology; and S. Russell Stearns '37, Thayer School.
Second-semester leave was voted to: Donald Bartlett '24, Biography; Carl L. Wilson, Botany; Royal C. Nemiah, Classics; Joseph L. McDonald, Economics; George L. Frost '21 and James D. McCallum, English; Andrew H. McNair, Geology; Merle C. Cowden, German; Harold R. Bruce, Government; Herbert W. Hill and John R. Williams '19, History; Ross Stagner, Psychology; Ramon Guthrie and Warren E. Montsie '15, French; Howard A. Bradley, Speech; and Roy P. Forster, Zoology.
THREE ON FACULTY GET GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIPS: Dartmouth professors honored with grants for 1948-49 are (left to right) Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture; Roy P. Forster, Assistant Professor of Zoology and Chairman of the Division of the Sciences; and Hugh S. Morrison '26, Professor of Art.
