The Faculty

CHARGED with the duties of "appraising . . . the educational policies and program of the College and promoting improvement in teaching effectiveness throughout the College," the newly revived Committee on Educational Policy plans, upon completion of the agenda proposed for the coming year, to concern itself with educational policy as it relates to curriculum programs and methods of instruction to matters of practice in teaching as well as to the theory behind it.

In 1947 the Committee on Educational Policy was temporarily discontinued and its work taken over by the Faculty Council's Committee on Administration of the Curriculum. With increasing evidence that both committees are required to deal adequately with matters of educational policy, the former committee was revived this fall.

The present Committee on Educational Policy is headed by Anton A. Raven, Professor of English. Its other members are John C. Adams, Professor of History; James C. Babcock, Professor of Romance Languages; Wallace C. G. Fraser, Assistant Professor of Mathematics; Prof. Donald H. Morrison, Dean of the Faculty; James P. Poole, Professor of Botany; Charles L. Stone '17, Professor of Psychology; Clark W. Horton, Consultant in Educational Research, adviser.

As VISITING LECTURER in Russian Civili. zation, Rene Fueloep-Miller has joined the College faculty for the first semester. The author of more than thirty books and of numerous essays, he has a background of research and study with such famous specialists as Forel, Freud, Babinsky, Marburg, and others. From 1923 to 1927 he studied the natural sciences in Soviet Russia, spending his time in Bechterew's Psychological Laboratories at Kazan University; Pavlov's Brain Institute in Leningrad; and at the Psychological Pedagogic Laboratory at the Academy for Social Education and the Humanistic Pedagogic Institute, Moscow. He was also a student-visitor at the Biological Station of Prof. K.A. Timiriazev, Moscow, and undertook Chrono-Cyclographic studies at Professor Gastev's Biomechanical Laboratories.

Dr. Fueloep-Miller has edited nine volumes of posthumous works by the Russian novelist Dostoevsky and a diary of his wife these editions being authorized by Russian States Publishing House and Dostoevsky's heirs. He also completed official editions of two posthumous works by Tolstoy and a posthumous play by Tchechov.

Russia Today, an essay by Dr. FueloepMiller, was published in 1923- His Rasputin, the Holy Devil, which appeared in 1928, was read widely in this country and abroad. Dostoevsky (the Man, the Writer,the Psychologist and the the Prophet) was published in 1950; and several other books have been written by Dr. Fueloep-Miller on Russian personalities and subjects.

In addition to his work as Visiting Lecturer at the College, Dr. Fueloep-Miller is acting as a consultant to the Hanover Institute for Associated Research, which is doing psychological research on perception and vision.

Among the books he has written, familiar to both laymen and scientists, are Cultural History of Medicine; Leaders, Dreamers and Rebels; Under Three Tsars; TheSaints That Moved the World, and TheWeb. In progress are Science and Faith inthe Crisis of Our Time, Struggle againstInsanity and Struggle against Deaths and Two Napoleons.

A FREDERICK GARDNER COTTRELL grant of $1,575 has been made by the Research Corporation, New York, to Dartmouth College to support a research project by John H. Wolfenden, Professor of Chemistry, on "the kinetics of some oxidation, addition and substitution reactions of iodine," a specific research on the speed of chemical reactions.

The funds of the grant have been spent for the purchase of a quartz spectrophotometer, which is to be housed in Steele Hall but will be available for other research projects being developed on the campus. The grant is made possible through the bequest of the late Dr. Cottrell, who founded the Research Corporation in 1912 and endowed it with the patent rights of his own inventions, to promote scientific research, particularly in the physical sciences.

Professor Wolfenden came to Dart- mouth in 1947 from Oxford University, England, where he was a Fellow and Tutor at Exeter College. He holds the degree of Master of Arts from both Oxford and Princeton universities and is the author of one book and many articles in the field of physical chemistry.

FRANCOIS DENOEU, Professor of French, has been awarded the medal of the Academie Frangaise for his work as a teacher and writer. A member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1929, Professor Denoeu has written many articles for language publications and is the author of a novel and eight textbooks on written and spoken French. In Hanover he is well known as a teacher, not only by Dartmouth students but by townspeople and faculty members who attend the evening classes he conducts for those interested in learning to speak French.

During the first World War, Professor Denoeu saw action in some of the fiercest battles of the war and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre. In the early months of the last war, he served as a reserve officer until he was demobilized to return to his teaching responsibilities in Hanover.

NEW members of the Faculty Council for 1951-52, six voted on last June by the faculty and four appointed by President Dickey, began their terms of service this October. Twenty other members are filling out unexpired terms to which they were previously elected or appointed.

Members elected by the faculty to represent the three Divisions are: Arnold K. Kvam, Assistant Professor of Music, and Judson S. Lyon '40, Assistant Professor of English, for the Humanities; Albert H. Hastorf, Assistant Professor of Psychology, and Robert E. Riegel, Professor of History, for the Social Sciences; Frank H. Connell '28, Professor of Zoology, and James P. Poole, Professor of Botany, for the Sciences.

Divisional chairmen, appointed by President Dickey and serving ex-officio as members of the Council, are Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy; Joseph L. McDonald, Professor of Economics; and Robin Robinson '24, Professor of Mathematics. William W. Ballard '28, Professor of Zoology, was appointed member-at-large.

The Faculty Council, which is responsi- ble for the study and handling of many of the administrative and academic functions of the College, acts as the "Senate" of the full faculty. There are nine ex-officio members, including the President, Deans, and other administrators. Twenty-four members are elected by the faculty from the three Divisions. In addition, three divisional chairmen and four members-at-large are appointed by the President. Two standing committees are included in the organization of the Faculty Council, the Executive Committee and one on Administration of the Curriculum.

TREVOR LLOYD, Professor of Geography and chairman of the Department, returned to his teaching duties this fall after having spent seven months in travelling 20,000 miles abroad. His studies, which will include a written report on the geography and administration of Greenland, are sponsored by the Arctic Institute of North America.

Professor Lloyd spent a major part of his leave at the office of the Prime Minister in Denmark, studying the reforms being carried out in Greenland by the Danish Government. This was followed by a trip to Greenland which required two months, during which time he was the guest of the Danish Government. He travelled as far north as Kutdligssat, a coal-mining settlement on Disko Bay; and at Ivigtut, the site of the world's only cryolite mine, had a surprise encounter with William Mattox '52, a fellow geographer, who had landed with a party of falconers in search of the rare white Greenland Falcon.

In Lapland Professor Lloyd visited the iron-mining town o£ Kirkenes, and started out on a tour on skis of the NorwegianRussian boundary. Besides skis he had to travel by reindeer sled and snowmobile to reach some of his northern destinations. On his trip he secured a large collection of colored photographs for illustrating geographical reports, and for lectures and classroom use.

JOSEPH S. RANSMEIER., Assistant Professor of Economics, at present on leave, has been named the recipient of the Henry M. Bates Memorial Scholarship, which is awarded to an outstanding senior in the Law School at the University of Michigan.

Professor Ransmeier has been on sabbatical leave for the past year in order to complete his law studies, begun during the summer of 1948. He returns to Dartmouth next semester. A graduate of Oberlin College in 1936, he received his Ph.D. from Columbia in 1942. Before joining the Dartmouth faculty in 1946, he was a Research Fellow with the Brookings Institution in Washington, 1939-40, and an instructor in economics at Vanderbilt University, 1940-48. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943 and worked in various technical branches of service until his terminal leave in 1946, having been promoted to the rank of captain in 1945'

POLICY CHAIRMAN: Anton A. Raven, Professor of English, who is serving as chairman of the newly revived Faculty Committee on Educational Policy.

VISITING LECTURER: Dr. Rene Fueloep-Miller is on the teaching staff of the new Russian Civilization Department this semester. Author of over 30 books, he has studied many facets of Russian life.

LA BELLE FRANCE was the topic of conversation at the get-together last month of Dartmouth's Prof. Francois Denoeu, recently decorated by the Academie Francaise; Mile. Nicole Henriot, French pianist who opened the Dartmouth Concert Series; and Albert Chambron, French consul general from Boston.