Books

Alumni Publications

March 1949
Books
Alumni Publications
March 1949

Report of the Connecticut State Tax SurveyCommittee, Connecticut Tax Survey 1948, aReport Submitted to the Governor of Connecticut January 3, 1949, has been published as a pamphlet of 179 pages. Roswell Magill '16 is the Chairman of the Committee which prepared the report.

Steerageway by Ben Ames Williams '10 appears in the December 18 issue of Collier's.

Church and State in the United States by Professor James Milton O'Neill '07 of Brooklyn College has been published in vol. 37 of Historical Records and Studies published by the U. S. Catholic Historical Society. This lecture by Professor O'Neill is one of the Meehan lectures sponsored annually by the U. S. Catholic Society.

Recent publications of Arthur D. Holmes '06 in collaboration with others are Influenceof Light During Storage on Composition ofBlue Hubbard Squash, reprinted from vol. 13, no. 4 of Food Research, and Some Results ofHormone Treatment of Field-Grown Tomatoes, reprinted from vol. 2, no. 3 of FoodTechnology.

Bibliography of Critical and BiographicalReferences for the Study of ContemporaryFrench Literature, Books and Articles Publishedfrom 1940 to 1948 by Douglas W. Alden 33, Gertrude R. Jasper and Robert P. Waterman, has been published as a pamphlet of 106 pages by Stechert-Hafner, Inc., New York. This bibliography has been compiled by the Bibliography Committee for French VII (Contemporary Literature) of the Modern LanguageAssociation of America.

The Naylor Company have just published William Belcher Seeley, Founder and FirstPrincipal of the San Antonio Academy, a JointTribute from his Family, his Students and hisFormer Associate, Isaac Joslyn Cox '96. A little over half of this book was prepared by Professor Cox, who is well known for his writings. Mr. Seeley was an inspiring teacher who was driven by ill health to Texas where he became very well known even beyond the state for his work in secondary education. The book is fittingly printed in San Antonio, Texas, the state in which Mr. Seeley did his chief work. Besides giving the biography of Mr. Seeley the book is also in part a history of San Antonio Academy.

John French '30 is the author of GermanImports, appearing in the December 28th issue of Information Bureau, Magazine of U. S. Military Government in Germany.

A second edition of the Nature of PatentableInvention by John E. R. Hayes '95, has been published by the Addison-Wesley Press, Cambridge. This second edition is a complete new printing, and contains some additions to the first volume published in 1944.

The American Ski Annual for 1949 contains an article Equipment Notes by Charles M. Dudley '29.

The January issue of Waterways contains an article by Richard C. Colton '25 entitled Through the Panama Canal with a FreightShipment.

Franklin W. Young '37 is the author of an article The Relation of First Clement to theEpistle of James, in the December issue of the Journal of Biblical Literature.

New Horizons in Public Administration published by the University of Alabama Press, contains a paper by Leonard D. White '14.

One Hundred Devotional MeditationsBased on Great Words of the Bible, by Charles A. Pierce '06, has been published by Friends Publication Board, Richmond, Indiana. This pamphlet of 104 pages sells for 30. The meditations are designed for family worship or private devotions, and the lessons are based on 18 great words of the Bible, such as Light, Liberty, Love, Purity, Patience, Peace, Power, Comfort, Faith, etc. In his foreword Mr. Pierce pays tribute to "Rev. William J. Tucker D.D., L.L.D., whose Sunday vesper addresses were the highlights of any Dartmouth undergraduate of fifty years ago."