With the Faculty
ELMER HARP JR., Curator of Anthropology at the Dartmouth College Museum, will undertake an "archaeological reconnaissance" of the northern coast of Newfoundland this summer, as the start of a search for traces of two extinct cultures that may have been among the earliest in Northeastern America.
The object of his search will be tangible remains of the Beothuk Indians and the Cape Dorset Eskimos. On the basis of this summer's general survey, Professor Harp hopes to return in subsequent years and make excavations. Very little is known of the original civilizations of Newfoundland and Labrador, and it is the Dartmouth anthropologist's hope to trace the origin of the Beothuk Indians and the Cape Dorset Eskimos back to the mainland.
The project is being sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America. Professor Harp will go to Newfoundland as a member of the scientific party headed by David C. Nutt '4l, Dartmouth's Arctic Specialist, and sailing in the 100-foot schooner Blue Dolphin.
DANIEL MARX JR. '29, Professor of Economics, has been granted a Guggenheim Fellowship for the coming year, for the study of the operations and effects of international shipping conferences. The maritime side of international trade has for many years been his special field of study.
Professor Marx at present is in Paris as Deputy Special Assistant to Mr. Harriman in the E.C.A. program, and is primarily concerned with trade between the countries participating in the Marshall Plan and Eastern European nations. He also holds the title of Economic Commissioner and has the rating of an in the diplomatic corps. In Paris Professor Marx is working with J. M. McDaniel Jr., former Professor of Economics at Dartmouth, who is Special Assistant to Mr. Harriman.
BY POPULAR REQUEST from delegates of New England colleges, Prof. Sidney Cox of the Department of English, the main speaker last year at the English Conference held at the Hotel Sheraton, Springfield, Mass., under the auspices of Springfield College, again made the chief address at this year's convention held on April 22 and 23. His topic was "To Keep Technology Subordinate to the Spirit."
About 100 delegates assembled as a result of a "challenge" issued by Prof. George E. Brooks '22, Chairman of the Department of English, Springfield College. Dr. Philip B. Gove '22, of the Editing Staff of the G. and C. Merriam Cos., was one of the participants in a symposium on professional writing at the conference. Frank L. Hewitt, Assistant Professor of English at Dartmouth from 1921 to 1925 and now at Roberts College, Constantinople, was leader of a symposium called "What Should Be the Role of English in the Changing Curriculum?"
PROF. ARTHUR O. DAVIDSON, chairman of Dartmouth's Department of Education, represented the College at the fourth annual National Conference on Higher Education at Chicago, April 4-7. Sponsored by the National Education Association, the conference brought together some 700 representatives of colleges and universities for a cooperative study of major problems confronting American higher education.
Professor Davidson also attended national and regional meetings in St. Louis, Philadelphia and Cambridge, and in the first two cities met with Dartmouth alumni in educational work.
JOHN G. GAZLEY, Professor of History, will act as a discussion leader during the second week of the second annual Instit ute on the United Nations at Mt. Holyoke College, June 26 to July 23. "Human Rights and Individual Security" is the general topic of the 1949 Institute, which lists President Emeritus Hopkins among its individual sponsors.
Dartmouth will also be represented at the Institute by Richard N. Tillson '5O of Wellesley Hills, Mass., who has been appointed a student assistant for the entire period. His appointment was made possible partly through the grant of a Dartmouth Scholarship for the Institute generously provided by Mrs. Albert H. Washburn of Hanover, widow of the late Albert H. Washburn, American Minister to Austria and Professor of Political Science at Dartmouth.
VERNON HALL JR., Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, has been named consulting editor of the comparative literature section of The Explicator. Under Professor Hall's supervision, the magazine will publish one or two pages of commentary each month on foreign literatures, primarily for the benefit of teachers of courses in general literature.
STEPHAN J. SCHLOSSMACHER, Assistant Professor of German, will sail June 21 for visits to Italy, Austria and Germany. He has been invited by Dr. Arthur von Schuschnigg, director of Radio Innsbruck, to give a radio talk there July 19 on the subject of "The Dartmouth College German Club." Professor Schlossmacher has for many years been faculty adviser of the German Club at Dartmouth and has developed it into one of the largest and most active undergraduate groups on campus.
THOMAS H. VANCE, Assistant Professor of English, will be in Austria this summer as a member of the faculty of the third annual Salzburg Seminar in American Studies which opens July 17 at Schloss Leopoldskron. He will be working with his English Department colleague, Prof. John Finch, who is executive director of the seminar and lecturer on American prose writers and the American theater.
RETIRING THIS MONTH: Three professors who end their active teaching careers in June are (top) Ernest Roy Greene, Professor of the Romance Languages, at Dartmouth for 42 years; (center) Fred Foster Parker '06, Professor of Graphics, teacher here for 29 years; and (bottom) Ernest Bradlee Watson '02, Professor of English, faculty member at Dartmouth for two periods totaling 36 years.
