The Faculty
A MONG the many faculty committees at Dartmouth, one of the most interesting is the Committee on Graduate Fellowships. This hard-working group has the pleasant job of recommending outstanding Dartmouth men to various agencies awarding the fellowships, and it has the further responsibility of acquainting students and recent alumni interested in doing graduate study with the fellowship opportunities which exist. For members, of the committee, the hours are long, the interviews are many, and the paper work is extensive but the gratifying part of the job lies in the contact with some of Dartmouth's most able and attractive
seniors and younger alumni, in seeing every year a substantial number of Dartmouth men receive some o£ the highest academic awards available to students in America.
Last year, for example, in national competition the College had eleven men who received fellowships. Dartmouth men won two Rhodes Scholarships, one Marshall Scholarship, four Fulbright Scholarships, two Rotary International Fellowships, one National Science Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, and one Ford Founda- tion Foreign Area Study Scholarship. The recipients of these awards are studying at such far-flung places as Oxford University, Munster University, the University of Otago in New Zealand, and Kyoto University in Japan. The tuition scholarship reserved by the Law School of the University of Chicago for a Dartmouth senior was awarded to an excellent candidate this same year. In addition, there were eleven Dartmouth seniors who received fellowships granted by the College. These men are now studying in Iceland, Germany, England, and at such places as Harvard, the University of Wisconsin, and the California Institute of Technology.
On certain awards, notably the Rhodes, Fulbright, and Dartmouth fellowships, the committee is asked for an endorsement of qualified candidates. The committee also supplies men with information and application forms for many other com- petitions. A major part of its activities is bringing to the attention of qualified men the nature and variety of opportunities which do exist. Prof. George E. Diller of the Department of Romance Languages, present chairman of the committee, is particularly concerned that recent alumni of the College know of the work of the committee, because they do not, like the undergraduates, have a chance to hear the representatives from the foundations sponsoring the different awards who call at the campus from time to time.
This is a committee whose work is its own reward, for the sense o£ pride in the College which the committee experiences has been sustained by the high quality of the reports received from current holders of scholarships.
MORE than 75 scholars from New England colleges and universities met at Dartmouth recently for a two-day conference, during which the New England Association for American Studies was formed. This group is affiliated with the national American Studies Association, and at the organizational meeting more than seventeen New England institutions of higher learning were represented. The Dartmouth faculty participating in the meeting included members of the Departments of Art, Biography, English, Great Issues, History, Music, and Philosophy. Bartlett H. Hayes Jr., Director of the Addison Galleries of American Art, led a discussion of "The Fine Arts and Letters in the History of American Culture." In addition to accepting a constitution and forming an executive committee, the group elected Professor Howard Mumford Jones of Harvard as its president.
THE Downstairs Dragon, a play by Prof. John Finch of the English Depart- ment, was so well received on the Dartmouth campus last spring that it was produced again this fall especially for the freshmen. The play was also performed recently at Yale by the Yale Dramatic Association, tinder the direction of Leo Lavandero. Prof. F. Cudworth Flint, also of the English Department, spoke recently at the fall meeting of the New England College English Association. His topic was "Teaching Foreigners Informally."
PROF. Trevor Lloyd of the Geography Department was chairman of the New England Geographers' Conference at Yale University on October go. The oneday annual conference met last year at the Ravine Lodge at Mount Moosilauke. This year the group studied transportation problems. Prof. Lloyd was also invited by the Army's Quartermaster Research and Development Command to attend the opening of the new Research and Development Center at Natick, Mass.
PROF. Albert S. Carlson of the Geography Department spoke recently at a meeting of the New England Advertising Executives Association on the business future in New England. Citing numerous facts to support his predictions, Professor Carlson developed the thesis that the next fifty years will provide New Englanders with better opportunities for higher profit and better living than the last fifty years. He predicted that the urban industrial area, of which New England is a key section, "will continue to possess a major portion of the population, industry and income of the nation, in the decades ahead."
PROF. Ralph A. Burns of the Department of Education is the author of an article, "The Man Who Invented a College," which appeared in a recent issue of The Saturday Evening Post. The article takes up the origin and growth of Fairleigh Dickinson College at Rutherford, New Jersey. The program there combines academic study with work in the student's chosen career.
PROF. Francis E. Merrill of the Department of Sociology attended the meet- ings of the American Sociological Society at the University of Illinois. He was elected one of the editors of the American Sociological Review, the official publication of the Society. Prof. A. Lincoln Washburn attended the Geological Society of America meeting in Los Angeles and presented a paper on "Hypotheses of Patterned Ground Origin." Herbert Garfinkel of the Department of Government participated in the program of the American Political Science Association meeting in Chicago.
A FAIR share of the intellectual life of the College can be found in the various student clubs and informal gatherings which meet from time to time to discuss issues of contemporary interest. Often faculty members are invited to speak to these groups, and this fall there has been a large number of interesting talks. Dr. Wing-tsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, spoke to the Forensic Union on the problem of the recognition and United Nations entry of Red China. He also spoke to the Dartmouth Christian Union on "The Divine Command in Christianity and Asian Religions." The International Relations Club heard Captain Thomas H. Tonseth, Professor of Naval Science, Lt. Col. Harry Stulting, Professor of Military Science, and Col. John W. Farrar, Professor of Air Science, speak on the topic, "The Military Threat to the United States." The same club heard Professor H. Wentworth Eldredge '31, chairman of the Sociology Department, discuss the theories and practices of political subversive warfare.
A series of popular mathematical lectures got off to a happy start with an informal talk by Prof. John G. Kemeny on the subject of Cantor's orders of infinity, and with a second, well-attended meeting, at which Prof. Bancroft H. Brown explained the intricacies of a miniature mathematical science. During the celebration of United Nations Week an interesting panel discussion on "The United Nations Depends on You," was held in College Hall. Led by Prof. John G. Gazley of the History Department, the panel included Daniel Marx Jr. '29, Professor of Economics, Herbert Hill and Jolia C. Adams, Professors of History, Gordon Skilling, Professor of Government, and David Bradley '38, author of the book No Placeto Hide. Finally we should mention that on election eve, the Young Republican Club and the Young Democrat Club thrashed out the issues of the hot campaign in an open debate which was moderated by Louis Menand, Assistant Professor of Government. Who won? We're still trying to figure that out.
