The Faculty
DONALD H. MORRISON, Dean of the Faculty and Professor of Government, has been awarded a "Grant for Young Administrators" by the Carnegie Corporation of New York. This grant has enabled Dean Morrison to make an extensive trip to the campuses of other colleges and universities, where he is conferring with administrators, department heads, and professors. He is concentrating his study primarily on curriculum experiments in Western colleges, with special emphasis on those of an inter-divisional character. He is also investigating procrams used at other institutions in the training of young college teachers of promise. Starting at Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, an institution with a national reputation for producing students who go on to do graduate work, Dean Morrison is also visiting the University of California at Los Angeles, Berkeley, and Santa Barbara; Leland Stanford at Palo Alto; California Institute of Technology at Pasadena; Reed College in Portland, Oregon; the University of Washington in Seattle; and the University of Oregon in Eugene.
WINC-TSIT CHAN, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, has published a new book, Religious Trends inModern China (Columbia, $4.25). Originally prepared as a series of lectures to be delivered at Columbia, Cornell, and the University of Chicago under the sponsorship of the American Council of Learned Societies in 1951, the book contains an authoritative account of the religious evolution in China from 1900 to the present. Professor Chan examines present-day social, philosophical, and cultural aspects of Confucianism, Buddhism, Chinese Islam, and Taoism, and investigates the possible sources of a reemergence of anti-communist religious beliefs.
THOMAS H. VANCE, Professor of English, has published an article entitled "The Symbolist Tradition in American Fiction: From E. A. Poe to Henry James' in a German volume entitled Sprache undLiteratur Englands und Amerikas. This article was originally prepared by Professor Vance for presentation as a lecture before a convention of German literary scholars in Comburg bei Schwabisch Hall, while he was serving as a visiting professor at the University of Munich during the academic year 1951-1952.
AN article, "The Philosophy of the Threshold," by Professor Philip E. Wheelwright of the Department of Philosophy, has appeared in the winter issue of the Sewanee Review. Much of the material for this article is drawn from a book, TheBurning Fountain: A Study in the Semantics of Poetic Vision, which Professor Wheelwright is currently completing.
ALLEN L. KING, Professor of Physics, has L been granted a leave of absence from his teaching duties in the College during the present semester. Professor King is devoting his full time to research, specifically to an investigation of certain physical properties of living cells. He will work mainly in Hanover, although he will travel elsewhere as his project requires it.
FREDERICK W. STERNFELD, Assistant Professor of Music, continues research on the interrelationship of words and music. The current issue of the Shakespeare Quarterly (January 1953) contains his review article on "Elizabethan Lyrics," and on February 2 Professor Sternfeld delivered a lecture on "James Joyce and Music" before the Joyce Society of New York. Recently Professor Sternfeld was elected to the standing committee on "Music in the Colleges" of the Music Teachers National Association, and at the Association's Annual Convention in Cincinnati on February 21 he participated in panel discussions on the teaching of music in the liberal arts college. The meeting in Cincinnati was also attended by Donald W. Wendlandt, Instructor in Music and Director of the Handel Society Orchestra and the College Band.
PROFESSOR ARTHUR O. DAVIDSON, Chairman of the Department of Education, represented the College at the Eighth National Conference on Higher Education, Chicago, March 5-7. This convention, which was attended by representatives of 800 colleges and universities, was devoted to the theme "Higher Education Reexamines Its Responsibilities." Professor Davidson was invited to participate in discussions of the impact of mobilization on higher education and of the preparation of college teachers.
THERE are two new men serving on the Faculty during the present semester. Richard L. Cartwright, Instructor in Philosophy, is a graduate of Oberlin College and has done advanced work at Brown University. He has also taught at Brown and at Michigan. Richard Lawton, Instructor in Geography, has studied at Marietta College in Ohio and at the University of California at Berkeley. He has done graduate work at Syracuse University, where he has also taught.
DICKENS INTERPRETER: Emlyn Williams, Welsh actor and playwright, appeared at Dartmouth on February 20 in an impersonation of Charles Dickens, reading scenes from his novels just as Dickens himself had done on a tour of the United States 85 years ago. Above, Mr. Williams (r) holds one of the rare letters in Baker Library's Dickens collection and discusses it with Prof. James D. McCallum, whose English course on the Victorian writers includes a study of Dickens.
