The Faculty
AMONG the new appointments to the Faculty this spring semester are those of Robert Ellenbogen, Instructor in Psychology, and Joseph Boyer Jarvis, Instructor in Speech. Mr. Ellenbogen has taught at the University of Michigan and more recently at Hunter College. His undergraduate study was carried on at City College in New York, where he received his B.S. in 1948. He has done graduate work at the University of Michigan and at N.Y.U., where he will receive his Ph.D. this year.
Mr. Jarvis received his B.A. from the University of Arizona in 1947 and his M.A, from Arizona State College in 1950. He has done further graduate study at Northwestern University, where he was a member of the teaching staff.
PROFESSOR Henry S. Odbert '30 of the Psychology Department is on leave this semester and next to work for the armed forces. He is serving as Chief of the Technical Information Division of the Air Force Personnel and Training Research Center in San Antonio, Texas.
DURING the muddy month of March many faculty members have been asked to speak before undergraduate organizations or learned societies here on the Dartmouth campus. Since these talks are contributing more and more to the quality of life today on the Hanover plain, several of them should be mentioned in this column. Royal C. Nemiah, Lawrence Professor of the Greek Language and Literature, spoke before the Dartmouth Human Rights Society on "Humanism and Human Rights." Prof. René Fuelop-Miller, Visiting Lecturer in Sociology and Russian Civilization, spoke to the Dartmouth Christian Union on the role of ethical values in the cold war against communism. The education fraternity, Kappa Phi Kappa, heard Prof. Frank G. Ryder of the German Department speak on "Social Problems of Education." "Psychology Technique, a Contribution to Scientific Methodology" was the title of a talk given by Dr. Cecil A. Gibb of the Psychology Department before the Dartmouth Scientific Association. Prof. H. Wentworth Eldridge '31 of the Sociology Department spoke before a meeting of the Human Rights Society on "The Problem of Urban Housing." A series of ten weekly community painting classes is being given this semester by Richard Wagner, Instructor in Art. Philip A. Anderson Jr., Visiting Lecturer in Religion, is delivering a series of Lenten lectures at the White Church under the general title, "God's Action and Man's Response."
COMMANDER David C. Nutt '41, Arctic Specialist, is off again to Labrador to pursue studies on the winter hydrographic structure of coastal waters in that area from Nain to Hebron. Traveling by both plane and dogsled, the commander of the Blue Dolphin and his associates are making their ninth field trip to Labrador. In addition to their general scientific value, these studies will be of considerable interest to the fishing industry and to future navigators of northern waters.
FACETS OF THE DARTMOUTH EDUCATION: The courses mentioned thus far in this column have been largely concerned with establishing in the minds of students a foundation for more mature study. Introductory courses in the sciences, social sciences, and the humanities provide students with a base on which to build for themselves an integrated understanding of the world in which they live. But at Dartmouth, as elsewhere, it is in the advanced courses that the real fruition usually comes. For men of proven ability and developing talent, Dartmouth offers some extraordinary opportunities for advanced study. One of the most interesting of them is the English Honors program, in which the student is released from conventional courses in order to work independently under the guidance of a tutor.
The course followed is continuous throughout the junior and senior years, and consists of a chronological study of the major figures in English literature, with some attention to American literature. Whether the work being studied is that of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Swift or Keats, what is exciting about this program is that it gives a more than ordinary opportunity for the men working by themselves to come to grips with some of the greatest minds of the past, to experience the joys of discovering them, to experience the effort of trying to grow up to them. Not only does the course provide a rich background of the most meaningful material, but also, in the continued intellectual effort a man develops his own powers of comprehension and expression. Papers are written each week on some aspect of the work being studied, and the students get together in groups of three with their tutor to read them and to exchange their views.
These groups, meeting either in the professor's study, or more often in his home for a long evening session, not only discuss together the reading program for the past week and the one to follow, but share with each other what exciting intellectual experiences they have had. The tutor guides and suggests, adapting the program to the needs and desires of each individual student, whom he soon knows intimately. In such a small group, more-over, inevitably the concept of "general education" can be most fruitfully carried out, for discussion will range over history, ideas, and values as they relate to the reading done by the group.
Graduates from this program have become Rhodes Scholars, lawyers, doctors, teachers, but for many of them one of the richest experiences of their lives was when they in the quiet of their study felt like some watcher of the skies When a new planet swims into his ken; Or like stout Cortez when with eagle eyes He star'd at the Pacific - and all his men Look'd at each other with a wild surmise - Silent, upon a peak in Darien.
THE enlargement of art instruction at Dartmouth through the appointment of Winslow B. Eaves as Visiting Sculptor was announced last month by President Dickey. Mr. Eaves, a talented young American sculptor who lives in West Andover, N. H., is directing optional studio practice in connection with art courses. He also offers instruction, on a non-credit basis, to other students interested in sculpture. A sculpture studio has been established in Fairbanks Hall, one of the Elm Street buildings formerly occupied by Clark School.
This is the first time in Dartmouth's history that regular instruction in sculpture has been available to students. Eaves joins Paul Sample '20, artist-in-residence, Virgil Poling, director of the Student Workshop, and Ray Nash, graphic arts instructor, as a member of the group providing personal guidance and help to students interested in the arts, craftwork and woodworking.
Eaves, 31 years old, has already had several one-man shows in New York and Paris. Last fall he had a one-man show at Dartmouth's Carpenter Galleries, and his works have been exhibited widely in the United States and in Vienna, Marseilles, Bordeaux, Lille, Strasbourg and Monaco.
He studied at the Cranbook Academy of Art under Carl Milles, one of the nation's outstanding teachers, and he spent a year living and working with William Zorach, dean of contemporary American sculptors. He has had several years' teaching experience and more recently spent two years in Paris under a Fulbright Scholarship.
On his weekly visits to Hanover, Mr. Eaves works with students on Friday afternoons, with a community group on Friday evenings, and with a children's group on Saturday mornings.
Two figures that illustrate the diverse styles and materials used by Mr. Eaves for his sculpture. The figure above, entitled "Nascency, is done in terra cotta and is built up inside with clay slabs and coils. The figure at the right is done in rose-veined marble and is one of the most striking of the many modern pieces done by Dartmouth's visiting sculptor.
WINSLOW B. EAVES, who has been named Visiting Sculptor at Dartmouth, shown in.his Hanover studio in Fairbanks Hall, one of the former Clark School buildings acquired by the College.
