The Faculty

A RESEARCH project of special interest to Dartmouth alumni has been untaken by Prof. Irving E. Bender of the Psychology Department. He is making an intensive study of the motivation of over 100 Dartmouth men of the Class of 1940, comparing exhaustive psychological tests made in their senior year with results of some of the same tests given again fifteen years after graduation. Professor Bender seeks to learn if their motivations as undergraduates have been sustained through a decade and a half. He hopes to re-check his own forecasts on their growth and development and to determine how well they have attained the goals they held as seniors in college.

Professor Bender has 124 folders filled with information on the students. Selected at random from their class, they were originally rated in more than 83 ways amoijg 23 different psychological areas by the professors who taught them. Moreover, they were the subject of many psychological tests and private interviews with Professor Bender. By giving these men some of the same psychological tests they took in 1940, he will try to reach some conclusions about the following: (1) Practical intelligence, energy and purposes. Have these men continued to grow mentally? Do they have the same mental power? Are they still responding to the same motivations to which the earlier testing showed them responsive? (2) Ambition and dominance. What personality changes have occurred during fifteen years of making a living, raising a family, meeting life as they have found it? (3) Attitude toward self and toward others. What changes have taken place in fifteen years in their evaluations of themselves as individuals? (4) Present evaluations compared with evaluations of fifteen years ago. In their senior year these students were rated by as many as ten close friends, and these confidential statements were incorporated into the earlier survey. How do these men now compare with the total of those earlier ratings?

The study, financed by a grant from the American Philosophical Society, will require more than a year for compilation of data and preliminary evaluation of results. Professor Bender, who plans to take a sabbatical leave next year, hopes to spend part of it traveling throughout the country to conduct the interviews. Prof. Robert Gutman of the Sociology Department, whose special interest is demography, will also participate in the study.

AT THE annual meeting of the Geological Society of America in New Orleans, Prof. A. Lincoln Washburn '35 of the Geology Department presented a paper entitled "Rates of Mass-Wasting." Professor Washburn has been engaged in the study of this matter for some time, and last summer he flew to King Oscar's Fjord on the east coast of Greenland on the first of a series of trips to discover new clues on how the earth's hills and mountains are wasting away. He chose this region because it illustrates the various factors contributing to the downslope mass movements of the earth's soil in an arctic environment and is at the same time readily accessible most of the year.

In explaining his project, Professor Washburn said, "We know that many forces are at work producing downslope movement of soil, but we do not yet know very much about the quantitative aspects of these forces. We know very little, for instance, about the rate of solifluction, which is probably the chief mass-wasting process operative in the Arctic." Solifluction is the slow flowing from higher to lower ground of masses saturated with water. It is readily apparent in arctic regions where little vegetation covers the ground surface and the topography may be more easily observed. Accompanying Professor Washburn on last summer's trip and assisting him in his research is a Dartmouth senior, John E. Cotten '96 of Laconia, N. H.

PROFS. John Masland and Lawrence Radway of the Government Department are co-authors, along with Professor A. F. Henry of Vanderbilt University, of an article titled "Armed Forces Unification and the Pentagon Officer." This study, which surveys the reactions to unification of the services by more than 550 Pentagon officers, appeared in The PublicAdministration Review last summer. It is one of the early fruits of a larger research project on which Professors Masland and Radway have been engaged for several years: A Study of Professional Military Education.

On leave during alternate semesters Professors Masland and Radway have traveled widely, visiting military schools and discussing aspects of their subject with civilian and military leaders. The study, which has been assisted by substantial foundation grants, is now nearing completion. While engaged in this work Professor Masland has lectured at the Naval War College, giving the first in a series of annual lectures on tire international situation, and last spring he participated in week-long forums on the subject of global strategy at each of the nation's three war colleges. The forums were composed of businessmen, journalists, and military personnel.

DARTMOUTH has been actively represented this fall at the meetings of various societies. Prof. F. Cudworth Flint, chairman of the English Department, presided over the semi-annual meeting of the New England section of the College English Association in Burlington, Vt. in October. Prof. Herbert W. Hill of the History Department presided at the annual dinner of the Atlantic Union in New York, November 18. Speakers at the gathering were Clarence Streit, author of Union Now and the Honorable Wishart McL. Robertson, Speaker of the Senate of Canada. Prof. John G. Gazley of the History Department was one of the participants in the program of the Conference on British Studies held at the Faculty Club of New York University on November 5. Professor Gazley was one of two invited commentators on the paper read by Professor J. B. Brebner of Columbia University on the topic, "Under George III." Prof. Byers Unger of the Zoology Department participated in the Third Teaching Institute of the Association of American Medical Colleges at Swampscott, Mass. Professor Unger, who attended as a guest of the AAMC, served as analyst of a panel discussion on "Pre-Professional Training for the Teaching of Anatomy."

Prof. Frank G. Ryder of the German Department presided at the meeting of the Northern New England Chapter of the American Association of Teachers of German at Wilton, N. H. Prof. TrevorLloyd participated in the conference of the National Council of Geography Teachers in Indianapolis. His topic was "The Changing Economy of Greenland." Prof.H. Wentworth Eldredge *31, chairman of the Sociology Department, lectured on the British New Towns at Cornell University on November 5 and also attended a graduate seminar on the New Towns program. Prof. Robert E. Riegel of the History Department addressed the National Council for Social Studies (branch of the National Educational Association) at their annual meeting on November 25. He talked on western history during the past decade.

MEMBERS of the Dartmouth faculty are often called to speak before student and local groups outside the classroom. Among the interesting talks this fall have been the Sunday evening series sponsored by the Dartmouth Christian Union. The speakers have included Prof. John Finch of the English Department, who spoke on "Heresy in American Poetry"; Prof. HughM. Davidson of the Romance Languages Department, who discussed "The Problem of Doubt - Rene Descartes"; and Dr.James Ross, Instructor in Religion, whose topic was "The Artist in Religious Exile - James Joyce."

The Russian Club sponsored a fascinating but rather pessimistic forum on the question, "The Spirit of Geneva, Is it Real?" The speakers were Prof. John C.Adams of the History Department, Prof.Dimitri von Mohrenschildt of the Department of Russian Civilization, and Prof.H. Gordon Skilling of the Government Department. Other talks of more than usual interest to undergraduates and faculty have been the report on political, social and economic conditions in South America, "The Neglected Neighborhood," by Prof. Richard McCornack '41 of the History Department, and Prof. John G.Kemeny's talk, "Symmetry and the Creation of a Branch of Mathematics."

COLEMAN R. JEFFERS, Instructor in Spanish, will be in charge of a student tour next summer under the auspices of the Student International Travel Association. The group will travel in Spain and will study at the University of Madrid where transfer credit may be obtained.

THE Dartmouth Economics Department was host to the fall meeting of the Connecticut Valley Economics Association in October. Paul B. Sears, chairman of the conservation program at Yale, discussed "Resource Problems in New England." More than fifty economists from neighboring colleges and universities attended.

William P. Kimball '28, Dean of Thayer School, joined the ROTC Dartmouth cadets at chowwhen they were attending the Aberdeen, Md., Proving Ground Summer Camp last July.