The Faculty
THE Rockefeller Foundation has awarded Prof. Roy P. Forster of the Zoology Department a grant of $10,000 for two years to support research in the general area of cell physiology. More specifically, the grant is for study of the biochemical events which underlie cell transport processes and mechanisms, which are involved in kidney function. The ultimate objective of Professor Forster's research in this area is to provide a foundation of knowledge which will make possible the development of therapeutic measures designed to correct kidney disorders. He has been pursuing this line of investigation for the past fourteen years, in his laboratory in Silsby Hall during the school year, and at the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory during the summers. In 1949 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship to carry on earlier phases of the same work in Cambridge, England, and at the Bermuda Biological Station. This new grant will enable Professor Forster to buy special equipment and to secure technical assistance which the College could not normally aEord.
IN a notable example of departmental initiative, Dartmouth's Department of Chemistry last month played host to a group of six-scientists who were invited to come to Hanover for two days to witness and discuss the educational program of the Department. The purpose of the invitation was to have an outside group take a fresh and objective look at the work of the Department, and also to discuss with them better ways of coordinating major study with the fields which students will later enter.
The visiting group, whose identity is given with the picture below, included two teachers, two industrial research directors and two former teachers now in administrative work. Dr. John C. Woodhouse '21, chairman of the group, was one of four Dartmouth alumni who made the two-day visit. October 10-11. The guest scientists had a full schedule, inspecting the Department's laboratory facilities, visiting the Medical School, meeting several times with the Chemistry faculty, lunching with the undergraduate majors, meeting with the teaching fellows, and holding discussions with President Dickey and Prof. Donald H. Morrison, Dean of the Faculty. The visiting group will get together again in New York and will prepare a report to be sent later to Dean Morrison and the Chemistry Department.
IN 1948, Frank G. Ryder, Assistant Professor of German, discovered in Baker Library the manuscript of the only known original American translation of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, by George Ticknor, Dartmouth 1807, among the Ticknor papers given to the College in the William Dexter bequest in 1943. Ticknor did the translation in 1814, at the age of 23, as a means of improving his command of German before making the first of his two well-documented trips to Europe, during which he was to travel and study in Germany and even to meet Goethe himself. It was generally believed that the manuscript had been destroyed by fire, until Professor Ryder came upon it. The translation has now been edited by Professor Ryder and published, during the past month, by the University of North Carolina Studies in Comparative Literature. The translation, Professor Ryder finds, is into excellent English, and while in point of accuracy it is not perfect, nevertheless it is substantially better than others of its time.
THE Department of Zoology finds itself in a rather surprisingly unique position this fall, for it now has on its staff three men who have come from widely scattered parts of the United Kingdom of Great Britain. Edward A. Bevan, a Welshman trained in genetics at Edinburgh, joined the Department last year. Dr. Jack H. Sandground, Visiting Lecturer in Zoology and Visiting Professor of Parasitology in the Medical School, comes originally from South Africa, though he has long been in this country, having taken his training at Johns Hopkins. Dr. M. T. Rizki, whose place of origin is Pakistan, has joined the Department as a post-doctoral fellow, having recently completed his doctorate at Columbia, where, incidentally, he worked under Professor L. C. Dunn 'l5, to whom the College presented an honorary degree last June.
Dr. Rizki is the first man to come to Dartmouth on a Cramer Fellowship. Here- tofore the income from the bequest of Dr. R. M. Cramer '77, which was originally $70,000 but has now grown to more than $100,000, for the training of men interested in genetics or in original laboratory investigations, has been used to send graduates of Dartmouth and of sister institutions to various universities for advanced work. Now with the arrival of Dr. Rizki at Dartmouth, the College is itself offering the advanced work to a Cramer Fellow for the first time. It is hoped that an increasing number of these men will do their work in Hanover in the future.
GEORGE F. THERIAULT '33, Professor of Sociology, spent five weeks during the past summer as a "Professor in Residence" at the offices of Time, Inc., studying the functioning of that organization, its publications Time, Life, and Fortune and their manner of dealing with the vast and varied information flowing in to them. As an outgrowth of this association, Professor Theriault has recently been appointed a Consultant in Community Research to plan and supervise the selection of representative American communities for an extensive study being undertaken by Life, and to aid in the planning of approaches to that study.
THE Yale Press has accepted for publication a book by Professor Emeritus McQuilkin DeGrange, entitled The Nature and Elements of Sociology. This book grew out of Professor DeGrange's course "The Search for Social Law," which he taught at Dartmouth for twenty years. It traces the growth of scientific thought and the gradual emergence of sociology, and defines the position of sociology in relation to other areas of human thought. The book will appear in the spring.
JOSEPH S. RANSMEIER, Assistant Professor of Economics, has returned to the College after a leave of absence during which he completed the work for his J.D. degree at the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the bar in New Hampshire in September. While at Ann Arbor, Professor Ransmeier helped to edit the MichiganLaw Review, to which he also contributed an article, "The Fourteenth Amendment and the Separate but Equal Doctrine, which appeared in the issue of December, 1951-
On leave from the College during the first term is Prof. John G. Gazley of the History Department, who is one of the five members of the civilian instruction staff of the National War College in Washington, D. C., the highest-level inter- service school. Other members of the Dartmouth faculty who have lectured at the War College, of which President Dickey is a consultant, are Professors John W. Masland, Robert K. Carr '29, and Earl R. Sikes.
Also on leave during the first semester are the following: Prof. W. Benfield Pressey of the English Department, who is compiling a descriptive bibliography of illustrations of Shakespeare's plays in books and periodicals; Prof. Eugen Rosen- stock-Huessy, who is helping to plan and develop a program to train teachers for an adult education system in Germany; Prof. H. Gordon Skilling, who is teaching Professor J. N. Hazard's courses in Soviet Government and Politics at Columbia; Prof. Charles J. Lyon, who is travelling to other institutions to study their methods of teaching Botany; and Prof. Elden B. Hartshorn, who is engaged in chemical research in Hanover.
Among those on leave for the entire year are Prof. Thomas S. K. Scott-Craig of the Philosophy Department, who has been appointed by the Protestant Episcopal Church to serve as executive chairman of its committee on faculty work, the purpose of which is to study the general relations between church and campus; and Prof. Frank H. Connell '28 of the Department of Zoology, who has returned to Japan to work with the Atomic Casualties Commission on the effects of the atomic bomb on the human population.
CHEMISTS VISIT THE COLLEGE: To look and talk over Dartmouth's program of chemistry instruction, six scientists came as invited guests of the Chemistry Department, October 10-11. Seated (I to r): Dr. Willis A. Gibbons, Associate Director of Research and Development, U. S. Rubber Co.; Dr. John Turkevich '28, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Princeton; Dr. Harris M. Chadwell '19, formerly of the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission and former Professor of Chemistry, Tufts; Dr. Samuel T. Arnold, Provost, and Professor of Chemistry, Brown; Dr. John C. Woodhouse '21, Atomic Enerqy Division, DuPont Co., who was chairman of the visiting group; Dr. George W. Wheland '2B Professor of Chemistry, Chicago; and Prof. Elden B. Hartshorn '12, Dartmouth. Dartmouth professors standing are Douglas M. Bowen, John H. Wolfenden (department chairman) Paul Shafer, Dean of the Faculty Donald H. Morrison, John P. Amsden '20, Fletcher Low 15 and An- drew J. Scarlett '10.
SCIENTISTS FROM AFAR: Three members of the Zoology Department are from countries in the British Commonwealth. L to r: Dr. M. T. Rizki, from Pakistan, a Cramer Fellow; Edward A. Bevan, Instructor in Genetics, from Wales; and Dr. Jack H. Sandground, Visiting Lecturer, who came to this country from South Africa.
