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PROFESSOR F. CUDWORTH FLINT, Chairman of Freshman English, has a section of English 1 which is so unusual as to be unique. In it he has not a single man from the United States, from Canada or from South America. There are 14 students all so shaky in English that they would be bewildered by the Old Testament and completely lost in the language of Chaucer, which are on the reading list for Americans in the freshman class.
Professor Flint's class is international. Students come from as far east as Korea and as far north as Lithuania and as far south as Iraq. There are 14 of them. Some can barely understand Mr. Flint when he talks and some Mr. Flint can barely understand when they talk.
So the class is an experiment in education. The problem is how most quickly and most efficiently to teach foreign students at Dartmouth College to read and understand English and American literature and to discuss it in class and on essays and examinations.
Professor Flint has chosen as his opening book Willa Cather's novel My Antonia, the story of a Bohemian girl and her family who settle in Nebraska and attempt to farm the land. It glorifies the virtues of American pioneers who have the courage to work close to the soil and learn about the American way of life as contrasted with European.
Here are the names and home countries of the 14 foreign students in Mr. Flint's section: U. Adami, Germany; A. Arrak, Esthonia; A. S. Bahrani, Iraq; E. Benzon, Denmark; V. J. Cernius, Lithuania; J. G. Heymans, Belgium; G. B. Hullman, Sweden; P. H. Lenzlinger, Switzerland; I. Medvedov, Russia; A. F. Philips, Holland; N. Skrylov, Yugoslavia; G. W. Sverdrup, Norway; T. G. Song, Korea; and D. R. Wang, China.
AMONG the 28 departmental chairmen named by President Dickey for the two-year period, 1949-51, are 11 professors newly selected to head their departments and 17 who are continuing in such posts.
The new chairmen are Carl L. Wilson, Botany; Vernon Hall Jr., Comparative Literature; Clyde E. Dankert, Economics; Herbert R. Sensenig '28, German; Peter S. Dow, Graphics and Engineering; Maurice F. Longhurst, Music; Captain Willard M. Sweetser, USN, Naval Science; Harold M. Evans, Physical Education; Leslie F. Murch, Physics; Michael E. Choukas '27, Sociology; and Carl D. England, Speech.
Continuing as departmental chairmen for another two years are: Russell R. Larmon '19, Administration; Churchill P. Lathrop, Art; Donald Bartlett '24, Biography; Andrew J. Scarlett '10, Chemistry; William Stuart Messer, The Classics; Arthur O. Davidson, Education; Anton A. Raven, English; Trevor Lloyd, Geography; Richard E. Stoiber '32, Geology; Dayton D. McKean, Government; Herbert W. Hill, History; Bancroft H. Brown, Mathematics; Francis W. Gramlich, Philosophy; Clarence J. Campbell '17, Physiology; Robert M. Bear, Psychology; George E. Diller, Romance Languages; and Frank H. Connell '28, Zoology.
The three Divisional Chairmen of the faculty, serving four-year terms from 1947 to 1951, are Francis L. Childs '06, Professor of English, The Humanities; Robert A. McKennan '25, Professor of Sociology, The Social Sciences; and Roy P. Forster, Professor of Zoology; The Sciences.
A STORY which first intrigued him 25 years ago and on which he has done research off and on ever since has resulted in the latest book by Eric P. Kelly '06, Professor of Journalism at Dartmouth. The story, part history and part fiction, is The Amazing Journey of David Ingram, published last month by Lippincott.
The book had its genesis in 1924 when Professor Kelly visited Henry L. Masta, one-time chief of the Abenaki Indians in St. Francis, Quebec, and the last of the old-time teachers in the Dartmouth Indian Schools in the Wilderness. Masta told him the Indian legend of the fabulous city of Alembagwa, and Professor Kelly, realizing that it was the same as the legend of Norumbega, current in England in the 16th century, began the long study of David Ingram, whose journey across the New World in 1568-69 was described in the first edition of Hakluyt's Voyages and thereby spread the legend of the Indian city of gold, silver and crystal. Professor Kelly's research took him to Mexico, England and thrice over the trail followed by Ingram and his two companions from Tampico on the Gulf of Mexico to St. John in Canada.
Professor Kelly's earlier books deal almost entirely with Poland. Since his first, The Trumpeter of Krakow (1929), he has written six other books with Polish backgrounds, including The Land and thePeople of Poland, From Star to Star, and The Hand in the Picture.
TWENTY-THREE MEMBERS of the Dartmouth faculty are on leave at present, ten for the full academic year and the others for the first semester.
On leave for the year are William W. Ballard '28, Professor of Zoology, who is working on a textbook in the field of vertebrate morphology; Ralph A. Burns, Professor of Education, who is in Germany as director of exchanges for the U. S. cultural affairs office; John W. Finch, Assistant Professor of English, who is serving as director of the Salzburg Seminar; Gordon F. Hull Jr. '33, Professor of Physics, in England as physicist for the Office of Naval Research; Russell R. Larmon '19, Professor of Administration, who is with the Rumford Press, Concord, N. H., as chairman of the board; Daniel Marx Jr. '29, Professor of Economics, who is assistant to Mr. Harriman with the E.C.A. in Paris; H. Gordon Skilling, Assistant Professor of Government, who is carrying on a program of study and research on Russia under a fellowship granted by the Russian Institute at Columbia University; Ross Stagner, Professor of Psychology, who is teaching at the University of Illinois for part of the year; and Arthur M. Wilson, Professor of Biography and Government, whose work on a biography of Diderot will be carried on both in this country and in France.
Faculty members on first-semester leave are Jose M. Arce, Professor of Spanish; Irving E. Bender, Professor of Psychology; Albert S. Carlson, Professor of Geography; Albert L. Demaree, Professor of History; H. Wentworth Eldredge '31, Professor of Sociology; Francis W. Gramlich, Professor of Philosophy; Hewette E. Joyce, Professor of English; Allen L. King, Professor of Physics; John H. Minnich '28, Professor of Civil Engineering, Thayer School; Artemas Packard, Professor of Art; Herbert R. Sensenig '28, Professor of German; Earl R. Sikes, Professor of Economics; and Harold E. Washburn '10, Professor of French.
Professor Arce is studying the Dobles Segrada Collection of Costa Rican bibliography in the Library of Congress in preparation for a literary history of Costa Rica. Professor Eldredge is in England studying the planning operations of the Ministry of Town and Country. Professor Sikes is revising his book on contemporary economic systems and Professor Washburn is studying in France.
ANDREW H. MCNAIR, Professor of Geology, is the author of two booklets on Franconia Notch and Kinsman Notch which the New Hampshire State Planning and Development Commission has been distributing to laymen interested in the geologic history of these two famous scenic spots. Each booklet contains 14 pages of text and illustrations, including maps and cross-section drawings, and gives a history of the region beginning millions of years ago and explaining how the familiar geologic formations were made by the forces of nature.
SIXTY YEARS OF TEACHING AT DARTMOUTH: Two of Tuck School's best known professors, Nathaniel G. Burleigh'll (left), Professor of Industrial Management, and Harry R. Wellman '07, Professor of Marketing and also Personnel Officer for the business school, have each rounded out thirty years on the faculty.
