The Faculty
ANEW book by Prof. Daniel Marx '29 of the Department of Economics was published on February 16. Entitled International Shipping Cartels (Princeton University Press, $6.00), the book is a reappraisal of the functioning of one of the earliest forms of cartels, which is still in existence. Professor Marx, who was himself in the shipping business for a number of years before entering the teaching profession, did most of his research for this book while a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.
PROF. FRANCIS E. MERRILL '26 of the Sociology Department participated in an invitational panel discussion on "Social Conditions for Freedom in Science," and led a discussion on the same subject, at a joint meeting of psychologists and sociologists at New York University on Saturday, February 14. The occasion was a two-day combined meeting of the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. The other members of Professor Merrill's panel were an expert on government from Princeton, an anthropologist from the Institute of International Education in Washington, and a psychologist from Cornell.
WING-TSIT CHAN, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, traveled to Springfield College, Springfield, Mass., on January 17 to appear as one of the guest lecturers in an extension course for teachers which deals with current problems confronting the new administration in Washington. His topic was "American Foreign Policy in Asia." Professor Chan has presented lectures at Springfield College on two previous occasions.
LAWRENCE G. HINES, Assistant Professor of Economics, will go to Washington, D. C., on March 9 to present a paper before the first general session of a conference on "Natural Resources and Human Needs." The occasion for the meeting will be the opening of the eighteenth North American Wildlife Conference. Professor Hines's paper will deal with some aspects of idle resources and resource allocation; subsequently it will be published in the Conference's Transactions.
PROF. ARTHUR O. DAVIDSON, Chairman of the Department of Education and Associate in Teacher Placement, and Ralph A. Burns, Professor of Education, both attended the annual meeting of the American Association of School Administrators in Atlantic City, February 14-19. Profesor Davidson served on the faculty of a Workshop for the National School Public Relations Association, and also represented the Dartmouth Teacher Placement Bureau at the meeting of the Institutional Teacher Placement Association. Professors Burns and Davidson operated a placement service for Dartmouth teachers and administrators during the meeting and held a dinner for about 35 Dartmouth educators.
PROF. ROY P. FORSTER, Chairman of the Department of Zoology, traveled to Chicago to speak before the "Sixth Annual Hanover Holiday in Chicago" on January 31. Professor Forster spoke on the subject of current population problems, under the title "Is Our Death Rate Too Low?" John Dell Isola, Assistant Coach of Football, also addressed the group, discussing some of the problems which confront a football coach.
ARTHUR M. WILSON, Professor of Biography and Government, is planning to represent the College at a conference on "The Function of a Liberal Education in the Contemporary World," to be held at Randolph-Macon Women's College in Lynchburg, Virginia, March 13-15.
