The Faculty

SEVEN members of the Dartmouth faculty were promoted from Assistant Professor to Professor at the most recent meetings of the Board, of Trustees. They are Douglas M. Bowen, Chemistry, who came to Dartmouth from Harvard in 1945; Lawrence G. Hines, Economics, who taught at the University of Minnesota before joining the Dartmouth faculty in 1947; John W. Finch, English, who taught at Harvard before coming to the College in 1939; Milieu G. Morgan, Electrical Engineering at Thayer School, who joined its staff in 1941; Frank G. Ryder, German, who came to Dartmouth in 1945 after teaching at the Universities of Minnesota and Michigan; S. Russell Stearns '37, Civil Engineering, who has taught at Thayer School since 1945; and Francisco Ugarte, Spanish, who in 1946 came to Dartmouth from Madrid, where he served as official translator for the United States Embassy and the Office of War Information.

Promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor were Harry T. Schultz '37, English, who joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1948, and Leonard M. Rieser '44, Physics, who was a teaching-research assistant at Stanford University before coming to Dartmouth last year.

The resignations of four faculty members were accepted at the same meetings of the Trustees. Henry L. Duncombe Jr., who has been Professor of Business Statistics and Assistant Dean at Tuck School, is leaving Dartmouth to become economist with the Machinery and Allied Products Institute in Washington. Other resignations are those of Francis E. Hummel '48, Assistant Professor of Marketing at Tuck; Dr. Kenneth E. Cosgrove, Instructor in Medicine in the Medical School; and Jerome Taylor, Assistant Professor of English.

THE rank of Emeritus Professor was conferred upon four newly retired members of the Dartmouth faculty by the Trustees at their annual commencement meeting.

Those voted emeritus status, effective next September, are: Arthur H. Basye '26h, Professor of History; Maurice F. Longhurst '24h, Professor of Music; Foster E. Guyer 'O6, Professor of French; and Harold G. Rugg 'O6, Associate Librarian.

They increase to thirty-four the number of men who are emeritus officers of the College.

WHEN Arthur H. Basye, Professor of History, joined the ranks of the emeritus faculty last month, colleagues in his department honored him at a retirement dinner, at which Prof. Allen R. Foley '20, a fellow historian, contributed the following poetic summing-up of Professor Basye's 45 years at Dartmouth:

Bully T.R. was President And Johnny K. Lord still resident When you, Arthur Basye, came to town With your lecture notes and a rented gown. Hoosier born and Kansas bred, You hadn't listened to what Greeley had said But turned back East to study and teach Where books and the sea were in easy reach; Where the light and the truth made a proper sum

And Dartmouth lay floating in good Yale rum. You were catholic in offerings as youngsters must be, Taught early and late and both sides of the sea, But you early preempted and made quite your own The way from the folk-moot to the strong British throne, And wide-eyed we listened to folk-lore and tale Of intrigue and scandal as knights drank their ale, And parliaments threatened and bishops defied And the tight little isle knew some very low tide; Then proudly you noted the empire expand The sun never setting on Britain's far strand And Disraeli and Gladstone vied for the stage, Jostling Home Rule and Reform Bills and Fabian wage.

But it wasn't all lectures and grades in a book The swish of a skirt might cause a stray look And parties and dances gave proper diversion Topped off with a snack from the roe of the sturgeon. Then when roving grew boring and thoughts steadied down You married a help-mate from an old Kansas town; You built you a home and fathered a daughter And kept her until Red McCornack sought her. Now grand dad still peacefully puffs at his pipe And dangles Phi Bete key for grandchild's delight.

So full of wisdom and years you step down Just as Elizabeth steps up to the crown, And as Britain takes heart and re-dreams an old dream,

Recalling great days ere she ever knew steam. So would we, on this fair day in June, Whistle for you our loveliest tune, Recalling with pleasure the long years past, The living and sharing so good to the last, Sensing now only a new turn of the page Wishing for you and for yours a happy new age!

ALBERT H. HASTORF, Assistant Professor of Psychology, has received a grant-inaid of $700 from the Social Science Research Council. This grant will enable Professor Hastorf to engage assistants for furthering a study of social sensitivity on which he is engaged.