With the Faculty

H GORDON SKILLING, Assistant Professor . of Government, has been granted a Senior Fellowship by the Russian Institute at Columbia University and has applied for leave of absence during the academic year 1949-50'in order to carry on a program of study and research in relation to the Russian area. Professor Skilling has already done a great deal of work in this field and has specialized in Czechoslovakia. Under a grant from the Social Science Research Council, he was in Prague last spring to complete a study of CzechGerman relations. Earlier work in this field was carried on in Prague from 1937 to 1939 and at the School of Slavonic Studies, University of London, in 1940. Next year, after a period in New York, he will probably return to Europe.

Professor Skilling inaugurated a new course at Dartmouth this semester entitled "Russia and Eastern Europe." A native of Canada and a graduate of the University of Toronto, he joined the Dartmouth faculty in the fall of 1947 after serving for six years as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin. During the war he was in charge of shortwave broadcasts in German and Czech for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

THE Dartmouth Bible, to be published next fall by Houghton Mifflin, is an abridged version of the King James Bible, prepared by Dr. Roy B. Chamberlin, Fellow in Religion and Chapel Director, and the late Prof. Herman Feldman of Tuck School. Edited for readers of all faiths, the King James Version, with the Apocrypha, has been reduced by about half.

The Dartmouth Bible is the product of more than twenty years' labor by Professor Feldman who died in 1947, and ten years of work by Dr. Chamberlin, who joined him in 1938. The Prophets and the Epistles are arranged chronologically and the four Gospels have been combined into one consecutive story of the life of Jesus. Biblical poetry is printed as poetry, and prose is rendered in modern paragraphs, the whole printed in large and readable type. A unique feature of The Dartmouth Bible, however, will be five lengthy introductions giving historical background. Each book of the Bible has its preface and there are hundreds of explanatory notes, annotated reading lists and a modern name-and-subject index. A number of maps are included.

HENRY S. ODBERT '30, Professor of Psychology, is in Washington this aca- demic year supervising psychological research for the Human Resources Committee of the Research and Development Board of the National Military Establishment.

Other members of the department, one of the busiest faculty groups in Hanover, are carrying on a variety of endeavors outside the classroom. Prof. Robert M. Bear, department chairman, has contributed a chapter to the new Introduction to Clinical Psychology, edited by Pennington and Berg. Prof. Charles L. Stone '16, who is chairman of the faculty Committee on Administration of the Curriculum, has written the chapter, "General Education in the Social Sciences at Dartmouth College," for Social Science in General Education, edited by Earl J. McGrath, recently named U. S. Commissioner of Education. Prof. C. N. Allen '24 is serving as consultant for a number of state social agencies; Prof. Theodore F. Karwoski and Prof. Ross Stagner are collaborating on the writing of an introductory psychology text; and Prof. Irving E. Bender is doing further work on the Bender Study of Motivation.

THE largest elective course at Dartmouth this semester is that in Christianity and Western Civilization, taught by Dr. Ernest Hocking, emeritus professor of philosophy at Harvard, who is Visiting Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Dartmouth this term. His class numbers 248 men. Professor Hocking is also giving an advanced seminar in metaphysics.

Chairman of the Harvard philosophy department from 1937 until his retirement in 1943, Professor Hocking is one of America's most distinguished philosophers and teachers. Two of his most influential books are The Meaning of God in Human Experience (1912) and Man and the State (1926). He and Mrs. Hocking make their permanent home in Madison, N. H.

ROY P. FORSTER, Professor of Zoology and recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is now visiting biological laboratories in Europe, after a three-weeks' stay at the University of Cambridge in England. This month he will transfer his studies to the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, where Mrs. Forster and daughter Peggy will join him.

Other members of the faculty now spending their sabbaticals in Europe are Donald Bartlett '24, Professor of Biography; Royal C. Nemiah, Lawrence Professor of the Greek Language and Literature; Donald L. Stone, Professor of Government; Ramon Guthrie, Professor of French; and Francis E. Merrill '26, Professor of Sociology.

JOHN G. GAZLEY, Professor of History, will again serve as Consultant to the Mt. Holyoke College Institute on the United Nations, scheduled to hold its second annual session at South Hadley from June 26 to July 23. He took a leading part in the planning of the first Institute last year.

In a Hanover lecture March 6, under the auspices of the United World Federalists, Professor Gazley stated his belief that world government will come in a few generations, but said, "I have finally reached the reluctant position that it is impossible in our generation." Nationalism is still the most potent force in the world, he declared, and the United States is no more ready than any other nation to give up its sovereignty.

DANIEL MARX JR. '29, Professor of Economics, is now in Paris on special leave from Dartmouth to fulfill important duties with the E.C.A. As special assistant to the Harriman Mission, he is dealing with problems of East-West trade.

Professor Marx has specialized in the study of international trade and during the war was chief of vessel utilization and of the cargo reports section of the War Shipping Administration. Maritime trade has been a specialty within his special field, and his views, published a few years ago, that greater consideration should be given to the effect of U. S. shipping upon this country's international relations attracted the attention of experts in that field.

PROF. ROY B. CHAMBERLIN, Chapel Director at Dartmouth, whose "Dartmouth Bible" is scheduled to be published during the coming fall.

DR. ERNEST HOCKING, distinguished Harvard philosopher, who is Visiting Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Dartmouth. His class of 248 men is the largest elective course this term.

H. GORDON SKILLING, Assistant Professor of Government, who has received a coveted Senior Fellowship from Columbia's Russian Institute.