Dartmouth's Role in Educating Scientists
INDEPENDENT COLLEGES of arts and sciences play a significant role in the education of the nation's scientists, and Dartmouth ranks especially high among these institutions, it was pointed out recently by Dean Donald H. Morrison, on the basis of a National Research Council report on the baccalaureate origins of Ph.D. degrees in the sciences awarded during the decade 1939-1945.
As the baccalaureate source of 82 science doctorates awarded in that decade, Dartmouth stood 32nd among 679 institutions of all types and third among 555 institutions other than "nationally accredited universities of complex structure," being surpassed in this latter group only by Oberlin College and DePauw University.
Dartmouth ranked eighth among all institutions as the undergraduate college of men receiving doctorates in geology and 27th among those granting baccalaureate degrees to chemistry Ph.D.'s.
Dartmouth was the baccalaureate source of more science doctorates than 88 of the 124 "nationally accredited universities of complex structure," in which group the National Research Council placed state universities and such institutions as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, and California Institute of Technology. This university group was the baccalaureate source of 65.7% of the 13,970 science doctorates awarded in the decade 1936-1945, while the colleges of arts and sciences were the source of 28.9%.
The study was financed by the Carnegie Corporation of New York and findings were first published in 1948.
1951 CARNIVAL COMMITTEE: Front row (I to r)—William T. Stewart '52, Lansdowne, Pa., tickets and finance; Robert F. Tomfohrde '5l, Berkeley, Calif.; Martin B. Person Jr. '5l, Windsor, Vt.; Samuel R. Rob- erts '5l, Wynnewood, Pa.; Steven Lazarus '52, Long Beach, N. Y., publicity. Back row—William M. Scott HI '5l, Bryn Mawr, Pa., general chairman; James W. Cornman '5l, Cynwyd, Pa., features; Carl H. Stephan '52, Reading, Mass., equipment; William W. Biddle '52, Radnor, Pa., personnel; David L. Stillman '5l, Laceyville, Pa., police; Jose Barroso Jr. '52, Havana, Cuba, transportation; and Preston H. Saunders '52, Providence, R. 1., competitions. Absent from the picture are William J. Mulligan '5O, Pawtucket, R. 1., director of Outdoor Evening, and Francis I. Frellick '52, Granville, Mass., director of entertainment.
