AN EXPERT ON MARITIME TRADE, Daniel Marx Jr. '29, Professor of Economics, was the author last year of "International Shipping Cartels" and co-author of another book dealing with Puerto Rican offshore shipping. After joining the faculty in 1941, he was with the War Shipping Administration during the war. He was economic commissioner with the ECA in Paris in 1949, and during the next two years studied international shipping on a Guggenheim Fellowship and at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
ONE OF THE FACULTY'S MOST PROLIFIC AUTHORS is Francis E. Merrill '26, Professor of Sociology, whose courses deal with social problems and the family. Co-author of five other books from 1934 to 1946, he wrote "The Family in American Culture" with Prof. Truxal in 1947, a volume revised and expanded last year. Other books are his "Courtship and Marriage" (1949), "Social Problems" (1950) and "Culture and Society" (1952), written with Prof. H. Wentworth Eldredge '31 of Dartmouth.
HUGH MORRISON '26, Professor of Art, is the author of "Early American Architecture" (1952), a classic in architectural history just added to the permanent White House library as an outstanding book of recent years. His well-known "Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture" appeared in 1935.
IN THE ROMANCE LANGUAGES, Francois Denoeu '38h (r), Professor of French, and Francisco Ugarte, Professor of Spanish, are two of Dartmouth's busiest writers and editors. Professor Denoeu, twice decorated by the French government, has published three novels, two plays, a book of original poems and a dozen textbooks on French language, literature and civilization. Professor Ugarte, a native Spaniard, has written a book on Spanish civilization, co-authored one textbook, and edited a book of Spanish plays.
THE EXPERIENCE OF THIRTY YEARS of teaching at Dartmouth was drawn on by Carl L. Wilson '35h, Professor of Botany, for his comprehensive book "Botany" published in 1952. Earlier writings include a book on plant life and Encyclopedia Britannica articles.
ONE OF THE MAJOR PROJECTS now being carried out by a Dartmouth faculty author is the book on Communism in Czechoslovakia which H. Gordon Skilling, Professor of Government, is bringing to completion this winter. A long string of articles has come from his studies in Canada, Prague, the School of Slavonic Studies of the University of London, and the Russian Institute, Columbia University.
THEODORE F. KARWOSKI '36h, Professor of Psychology, who steadily writes on his specialties, perception and thought processes, is the author, with Ross Stagner, of "Psychology" which was published in 1952 and widely adopted in the college field.