Faculty Publications
ARISTOTLE, by Prof. Philip Wheelwright.Published by The Odyssey Press, 1951, pp.336, $2.00.
This book is an expansion and revision of Professor Wheelwright's earlier book on Aristotle. His own statement on the flyleaf offers, perhaps, the best description of it. "Aristotle. Containing selections from seven of the most important books of Aristotle. Books which have set the pattern for the development of much of our western civilization. Books that live today as fully as when they were written. These are Natural Science, The Metaphysics, Zoology, Psychology, The Nicomachean Ethics, On Statecraft, and The Art of Poetry."
It is a happy circumstance in an age like our own, in which scholarship is degenerating to the derivative and the second-hand, to find a professor of philosophy who is able to read Aristotle in his own Greek. This is not surprising in a semanticist, but it is none the less gratifying, for in philosophy, more than elsewhere, a knowledge of the subtle nuances of language is essential to the complete understanding of the philosopher's mind. Professor Wheelwright has not only made wise and significant selections; he has also translated them into a modern idiom which avoids the banausic qualities of some modern versions and presents the thought of the original with truly Aristotelian "clarity and propriety."
Such a book as the one under review is designed primarily for students in collegiate courses in philosophy, but it is the opinion of the present writer that this particular volume should be called to the attention of those thoughtful men (and they are many!) who have finished thieir formal education, collegiate or other, and who wish to deepen and broaden their understanding of contemporary problems. When one considers the role played by philosophy in the political and social movements of this century, one can scarcely maintain that philosophy is the concern merely of the pedant, the absentminded professor, or the laudator temporisacti.
Readings for Comprehension, prepared by Profs. Benfield Pressey and Robert Murray Bear has been published by Charles Scribner's Sons, 1951. This textbook for English classes has been prepared by a Professor of English and a Professor of Psychology, and therefore represents a commendable crossing of departmental lines. Prof. John H. Wolfenden, Professor of Chemistry, contributed a chapter Technology, which was the title of his lecture before the Great Issues course. The book presents a formidable list of contributors, from Winston Churchill to people nobody ever heard of. Each contribution is accompanied by an exercise, which must have been difficult to prepare, for each exercise purports to be different from every other, and there are 47 contributions in the book. Forty-seven different exercises, each requiring a piece of writing, a speech, and a lot of thinking, should develop quite a crop of thinkers, writers, and speakers, or perhaps check their activities forever.
A Suggestion for Elementary German, by Prof. Frank G. Ryder, appears in the Jan- uary-June 1950 issue of Language Learning. Prof. Arthur M. Wilson is the author of Bicentenaire du Siecle des Lumieres; Dideroten Prison 1749, which appears in the .spring quarter, 1951 of Les Cahiers Haut-Marnais.
Paleozoic Stratigraphy of Part of Northwestern Arizona, by Prof. Andrew H. McNair, has been reprinted from the March issue of The Bulletin of the American Association ofPetroleum Geologists.
The May issue of the Sewanee Review contains an article by Prof. John L. Stewart entitled On the Making of Doctor Faustus.
Albert I. Dickerson '3O is the author of The Principles and Practices of Selection forAdmission to Dartmouth College, which has been reprinted from vol. VIII, 1951 of TheNew England Social Studies Bulletin.
Wood-Using Industries of the Upper Connecticut, by Robert S. Monahan '29, appears in the May issue of the New England Social Studies Bulletin. The same article appears in Lumber Camp News for May.
Mrs. Havia's Race Against Time, by Piltti Heiskanen, former ski coach, appears in the April issue of The Survey.
Recent publications by Prof. Robert K. Carr '29 are: The Un-American ActivitiesCommittee, reprinted from the Spring number of The University of Chicago Law Review, The Un-American Activities Committeeand the Courts, reprinted from the March issue of the Louisiana Law Review, and Witnesses before Committees of Congress, in the June 9 issue of America.
The June Atlantic Monthly contains an article by Sidney C. Hayward '26 entitled The Salmon of Newfoundland.
Studies in Vision IV: The Interactions ofRods and Cones in After-Sensations, and V.The Role of Chromatic Aberration in DepthPerception, both reprinted from vol. 44 of The Journal of General Psychology, were written by Professor Theodore F. Karwoski and Matthew Wayner Jr. '49, and Prof. Karwoski and Van V. Lloyd '43 respectively.
Professor Frederick W. Sternfeld is the author of "Louisiana Story" Teamwork between Producer and Composer, which appears in Music Teachers National Association Volume of Proceedings for 1949.
Prof. Millett G. Morgan, and W. Raymond Evans, Jr. '48, have an article entitled Synthesis and Analysis of Elliptic PolarizationLoci in Terms of Space-Quadrature Sinusoidal Components in the May issue of Proceedings of the Institute of Radio EngineersJournal. The article summarizes some of the findings of Prof. Morgan and his associates in research on Radio Wave propagation in connection with the lonosphere being carried out under the Office of Naval Research.
