The Faculty
FOLLOWING the precedent established in the fall by the committee of specialists who were invited to make a study of the Dartmouth Chemistry Department, a visiting committee of six men have recently completed a study of the College's musical activities. The chairman of this group was Charles E. Griffith '15, vice president of Silver-Burdett Publishing Company of New York City. The other members were Professor James Sykes, chairman of the Department of Music at Colgate; Werner Janssen '21, composer and conductor of the San Diego Symphony Orchestra; Nathan Gottschalk '49, Assistant Professor of Music at Oberlin College; Prof. Robin Robinson '24 of the Dartmouth Mathematics Department; and Prof. John L. Stewart of the English Department. Meeting December 9, 10, and 11 in Hanover and January 3 in New York City, the Committee attended classes in music, observed rehearsals of the various musical organizations sponsored by the College, and conferred with music students, with members of the Music Department, and with other members of the Faculty who are active in musical events in the community. The results of their subsequent deliberations will be presented to the Music Department and the College in an extensive written report.
HERLUF V. OLSEN '22, Professor of Business Economics at Tuck School, has been granted a leave of absence for the spring semester in order to devote his full time to his duties as director of a study of university education in hospital administration in the United States. This study, which is being financed by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, has been undertaken at the request of the Association of University Programs in Hospital Administration, which is made up of representatives of the thirteen institutions offering graduate work leading to the master's degree in hospital administration. Each of these thirteen programs is to be studied and evaluated by Professor Olsen and his staff, who are working under a nine-man commission of experts and representatives of the institutions involved. Chairman of this commission is James A. Hamilton '22, Tuck '23, who is director of the program in hospital administration at the University of Minnesota. Professor Olsen's base of operations will be Hanover, but he will spend much of February and March on the road, visiting each of the thirteen schools for a period of from four to six days, observing their programs in action and interviewing various experts and other people concerned. The study was begun last April and will be completed by next August first. Some of its results will be made public in a general report on the philosophy and methodology of university education for hospital administration, and separate confidential reports will be submitted to the Kellogg Foundation and to each of the thirteen schools participating.
JUDSON S. LYON '40, Assistant Professor of English., has been appointed a Carnegie Intern in General Education for the academic year 1953-1954. Twelve such internships are awarded annually by the Carnegie Corporation and four host institutions Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, and Yale Universities. Their purpose is to familiarize members of the faculties of colleges throughout the country with the philosophy and the operating techniques of the general education programs now in effect at these four institutions. Professor Francisco Ugarte of the Dartmouth Spanish Department spent the academic year 1951"1952 as an Intern at the College of the University of Chicago. Professor Lyon will spend next year at Columbia, participating in the teaching of the Humanities section of the general education program, and studying the program as a whole.
JOHN W. MASLAND, Professor of Government, will be on leave from the College during the spring semester to pursue research in the area of civil-military relations. Specifically, Professor Masland will be working on a study of the growing responsibilities of career military men in policy-making areas, and the selection and training of men for these responsibilities. He plans to do most of his work at Princeton, where he will be living, but he will travel to Washington and such other centers of information as his studies require.
Frank G. Ryder, Assistant Professor of German, will also be on leave daring the spring semester. He plans to travel in Europe and finally to settle in Innsbruck, where he will devote himself to a verse translation of the Nibelungenlied, on which he has already embarked.
Prof. Henry B. Williams, Director of the Experimental Theatre, will also be travelling in Europe during the second semester. He plans to study the classical theatre in England and possibly in Ireland, visiting the Old Vic in London and various other theatres such as those at Stratford and Birmingham. He also intends to study college theatres in England, and Roman and Renaissance theatres in Italy.
During Christmas vacation, Professor Williams exhibited a number of photographs of productions by the Dartmouth Players at the conference of the American Educational Theatre Association, held in Cincinnati. He also served as secretary of a Panel on Technical Developments: Projection Techniques and Equipment.
FOUR papers were presented by members of the Dartmouth Faculty at the 67th annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in Boston, December 27-29, which was attended by twenty members of the Faculty. Prof. Frank G. Ryder of the German Department read two papers, one entitled "Ticknor and Goethe," and the other "On Translating the Nibelungenlied." John L. Stewart, Assistant Professor of English, spoke on the subject "John Crowe Ransom's War upon Science." Dimitri S. von Mohrenschildt, Professor of Russian History and Literature, delivered a paper on "Russian Studies in the United States" before a meeting of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, a subsidiary of the Modern Language Association.
Frederick W. Sternfeld, Assistant Professor of Music, presented a lecture on "Shakespeare and Music" before the New England Chapter of the American Musicological Society in Boston, December 15. He also spoke on the same subject before the Shakespeare Club at Hunter College on January 9. During the Christmas vacation, Professor Sternfeld attended the Modern Language Association meeting in Boston, where he was elected secretary of the Renaissance section, and he served as chairman of the meeting of the Society for Music in the Liberal Arts College, at Yale University.
Robert E. Riegel, Professor of History, presented a paper entitled "Recent Trends in American Biography" at the meeting of the American Historical Association in Washington. D. C., December 28-30. Professor Riegel also presided over a conference on the Frontier and Western History. The meeting of the association was attended by eight other members of the Faculty.
Prof. Theodore F. Karwoski, Chairman of the Department of Psychology, has been elected a member of an organizing committee to propose a constitution and bylaws for the recently founded New Hampshire Psychological Association. The committee's proposals will be presented at a spring meeting of the Association.
Prof. Arthur O. Davidson, Chairman of the Department of Education, served as a consultant on developing multiple approaches to the balancing of teacher supply and demand at the New York City Regional Conference of the National Commission on Teacher Education and Professional Standards, January 1-3.
WHAT the stockholder thinks about management is the theme of a booklet put out by Pitney-Bowes, Inc., and distributed among the 7,500 common stockholders who contributed their opinions. The information was tabulated and analyzed by J. Edward Walters, Professor of Management and Industrial Relations at Tuck School, who also assisted in developing the mail questionnaire sent out to the stockholders.
Answers on the whole indicated approval of the company's policies, although it was discovered that there prevailed some easily correctable stockholder misinformation. Replies varied from those revealing a high degree of serious business acumen on the part of the writers to the carefree attitudes of Groucho Marx. Asked what influenced him to buy Pitney-Bowes stock, he replied, "The wind was from the North." To "How capable do you consider the present management?" he answered, "Good golfers." His rating of the company's annual report was "Tops in fiction."
VISITING MUSICOLOGISTS: The College recently was host fo a committee surveying Dartmouth's musical activities. At a meeting in Bartlett Hall, with the Music faculty, are (sitting, I to r): John L. Stewart, Assistant Professor of English; Nathan Gottschalk '49, Assistant Professor of Music, Ober- lin; Charles E. Griffith 'l5, vice president of Silver-Burdett Publishing Cos.; James Sykes, chairman of Colgate's Music Department; Robin Robinson '24, Professor of Mathematics. Back row: Frederick W. Sternfeld, Assistant Professor of Music; Paul R. Zeller, Assis'ant Professor of Music; Donald W. Wendlandt, Director, Dartmouth Band; Maurice F. Longhurst, Professor of Music.
