Faculty Papers
DuRiNG spring vacation a large number of Dartmouth professors attended the meetings of various learned societies across the country. Among them, Wingtsit Chan, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, gave a paper on "NeoConfucian Theory of the Original Goodness of Human Nature" at the meetings of the Far Eastern Association in Washington, D. C. John V. Neale, Professor of Speech, attended the meeting of the Speech Association of the Eastern States held in New York, and served as chairman of the section meeting on original oratory. At the New York meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Prof. Francis E. Merrill '26 of the Sociology Department read a paper and was chairman of the discussion sections. Trevor Lloyd, Professor of Geography, gave a paper on "The Reconstruction of North Norway, 1945-55" at the annual meetings of the Association of American Geographers held in Memphis; and at the meeting of the American Physiological Society in Berkeley, Calif., Professors Roy Forster and John Copenhaver delivered a paper.
Other Dartmouth professors speaking to groups outside of Hanover included Bancroft H. Brown, Professor of Mathematics, who gave an address at the meeting of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in Boston, and Robert Gutman, Assistant Professor of Sociology, who read a paper on "The Accuracy of Birth Statistics in Massachusetts: 1842-1901" at the meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society in New York. H. Went-worth Eldredge '31, Professor of Sociology, spoke on City Planning to a graduate seminar in the planning program at Yale on April 12 and to a combined MIT-Harvard seminar in the Graduate School of Design at Cambridge on April 21.
In Hanover, Clyde E. Dankert, Professor of Economics, and Wayne G. Broehl Jr., Assistant Professor of Business Administration, spoke before the Twin State Business Roundtable held at the Tuck School in May. The roundtable is under the sponsorship of the Associated Industries of Vermont and the New Hampshire Manufacturers Association. At the May meeting of the New Hampshire Academy of Science held this year at Dartmouth, Gordon F. Hull Jr. '33, Professor of Physics, talked on microwaves and Willis M. Rayton, Professor of Physics, discussed present speculation on the origin of the aurora. "Mineral Exploration in Venezuela" was the subject of a talk by Robert W. Decker, Assistant Professor of Geology, and "Post Mineral Exploration in Labrador" was discussed by Huntington W. Curtis, Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineering.
