The Faculty

OF special interest this month is a new teaching seminar which has been instituted this year by the College to help young instructors more quickly acquire the skills of the effective college teacher. Patterned after the Teaching Internship Program, operated so successfully for the past two years on the campus, the new seminar is under the direction of Stearns Morse, Professor of English, and is in part supported by grants from the Ford Foundation for the Advancement of Education. The seminar is roughly comparable to "executive training" programs operated by large corporations in which new employees learn about the policies and aims of the corporation, meet company executives, and learn the special techniques of the business.

New members of the faculty, from the various teaching departments of the College, meet two evenings a month with older faculty members to discuss such topics as techniques of student counseling, the function of examinations, how students learn, essential equipment for the teacher, and techniques in teaching. In addition to the seminar, various departments of the College have designated older faculty members as experienced teachers to whom the younger men may turn for advice in any classroom problems they may encounter.

THE College has received a grant of $50,000 from the Rockefeller Foundation in support of a program of research in cellular biology. The grant covers a four-year period and will be used by Dr. Roy P. Forster, Professor of Zoology, for the study of active transport in renal tubule cells, and by Dr. Raymond W. Barratt, Assistant Professor of Botany, for the study of how genes bring about hereditary changes.

Professor Forster, who will leave Dartmouth on a one-semester leave of absence next February on a Guggenheim Fellowship for study in Europe, has for many years been examining kidney function in various mammals and fishes. Associated with him on the project is Dr. John H. Copenhaver Jr. '46, Assistant Professor of Zoology, whose work is supported by the National Institute of Health. Working with Professor Barratt are Dr. William Ogata, Research Fellow in Botany, and Dr. William Ebersold, a post-doctoral fellow of the National Cancer Institute of the U.S. Public Health Service. The grant is being divided between the two teams of scientists, with §5,000 per year going to support Professor Forster's work, and $7,500 a year in support of Professor Barratt's work.

PROFESSOR H. Wentworth Eldredge of the Sociology Department was selected recently to lecture at the NATO Defense College in Paris. His topic was "The Value of History in the Study of Policy," and his talk was part of a five-and-a-half-month program of education for senior military planners of the NATO powers. Speaking before seventy officers from the various nations, Professor Eldredge presented some of the new ideas of modern social science and developed the theme that "military planning involves the possibilities of repercussions in the entire fabric of the nation, not just in military fields, but in areas of politics and economics as well."

DR. Millett G. Morgan, director of research at the Thayer School, represented the United States in the area of ionospheric physics at the third general session of the International Council of Scientific Unions which met in Brussels, September 8 to 14. Professor Morgan is chairman of the lonosphere Panel of the U.S. National Committee for the Geophysical Year, 1957. Accompanying him to Brussels was Dr. R. J. Slutz, chief of the radio propagation physics division of the U. S. Bureau of Standards in Boulder, Colo. Dr. Morgan met with representatives of the 57 nations taking part in the Geophysical Year observations, which are designed to find solutions to scientific problems that are particularly suitable for group approach by scientists in all parts of the world. Typical of these problems are questions of radio wave propagation in the earth's upper atmosphere, a region and a subject that know no national boundaries.

AN the home front, Dr. Louis Menand, Assistant Professor of Government, has entered the fight for legislative reform in New Hampshire. He has asked Governor Lane Dwinell '28 to appoint a Constitutional Commission to review the shortcomings of New Hampshire's doddering 171-year-old basic law and to recommend needed revisions. Professor Menand has endorsed the proposal by Attorney W. W. Treat of Hampton, chairman of the Republican State Committee, to have an interim citizens committee study the Constitution before the convention meets next May to consider possible amendments. Pointing out that the idea of a commission has worked with some success in New York, New Jersey, Missouri and Georgia, Professor Menand says, "Inasmuch as desirable amendments to the New Hampshire Constitution have been so long in emerging, it seems to me absolutely necessary to have a competent and thorough study of the Constitution presented to the public. A commission composed of eminent citizens from many interests in the state would, if properly motivated, bring before the citizens in a forceful manner the need for revision of the organic law of the state."

PROFESSOR Theodore Karwoski of the Psychology Department lectured at the Fourth Annual Conference for Architects in late October at the University of Illinois. Professor Karwoski, who spoke on "The Psychology of Aesthetics," joined a group of architects, engineers, designers and artists who discussed different aspects of the topic, "The Integration of Contemporary Aesthetics and Building Techniques."

An expert on reaction to visual and auditory stimuli, Professor Karwoski has done much research on the aesthetics of music and art. He is the author, with Professor H. J. Butler, of a standard text, Human Psychology. He also is the author of many articles and monographs on the psychology of perception. With other researchers he has both developed and evaluated various tests for art appreciation and examined the reliability of free association tests.

PROFEssoR Henry B. Williams of the English Department is the author of the world's first English translation of Schiller's Der Neffe als Onkel, or "Relative Confusion." The English version was presented by the Dartmouth players in the College's Experimental Theatre on the 150th anniversary of Schiller's death, and the performance was part of a memorial that began last spring with an earlier staging of the play in German.

PROFESSOR H. Gordon Skilling of the Government Department has been an active participant in a number of conferences during the past few months. He was a member of the New England Con- ference on the Soviet Union, sponsored by the World Peace Foundation and held at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in the early summer, and he took part in the Warren R. Austin Institute in World Understanding at the University of Vermont. Most recently he participated in the Canada-United States Conference at the University of Rochester, held to explore the topic, "The Bases of Canadian and United States Foreign Policies."

ONE of the most interesting of the various projects undertaken recently by Dartmouth professors was the expedition this summer to the Coronation Gulf region of Canada's Northwest made by Professor Elmer Harp Jr. of the Sociology Department and by Dr. Ralph E. Miller '24 of the Dartmouth Medical School. The purpose of the trip was to continue an anthropological survey of the Arctic that will extend from Greenland to Alaska. The explorers were seeking evidence of the Cape Dorset Eskimo Culture, most ancient Eskimo peoples to inhabit the Arctic, and their journey took them along the seacoast and inland over the 350-mile distance between Dismal Lakes to the west of Coronation Gulf and Bathurst Inlet on the east. The region has never been examined from an archeological viewpoint.

Professor Harp already has made several expeditions to Greenland, Labrador and Newfoundland recording this earliest Eskimo culture and has excavated a number of significant sites. The Dorset Culture has never been recorded west of King William Island, and Professor Harp, who is now engaged in assessing his findings, sought evidence of the culture far to the west, with the theory that the Eskimos gradually migrated from west to east more than 2,000 years ago. He and Dr. Miller hope that their studies will establish a link between this earliest Eskimo culture and the peoples who came to this continent more than 20,000 years before, crossing from the old world to the new byway of Bering Strait.

Professor Harp and Dr. Miller flew in Dr. Miller's seaplane from Hanover and operated exclusively from the plane, jumping from one body of water to another. The Dismal Lakes, Coronation Gulf and Bathurst Inlet areas were chosen for the survey because they combine the essential features of inland, coastal and inland-coastal geography.

"Professor Gordon Hull Jr. '33 of the Physics Department has resigned from the College to take a position with the Lincoln Laboratories of M.I.T. Also resigning is Robert E. Huke '48, Instructor in Geography, to serve on the staff of the University of the Philippines. His primary responsibility there will be to help in setting up a new Asian Studies Program at the university where he will also teach a course in Economic Geography.

Capt. Clarence E. Dickinson USN, who came to Hanover in September as Professor of Naval Science and Commanding Officer of the NROTC Unit, was graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1934. He was formerly Planning Officer of the Joint Staff Headquarters, Alaskan Command, and during World War II was three times awarded the Navy Cross, highest Navy award.