The Faculty

AT a recent meeting of the Dartmouth Chapter of the American Association of University Professors a resolution was passed urging discontinuance of the New Hampshire Attorney General's investigation of subversive activities in the state. Professor John' W. Finch of the English Department, chairman of the twelveman sub-committee that drafted the resolution, presented it before the House Appropriations Committee of the State Legislature which was considering an appropriation of $42,000 to continue the investigation. Because the resolution articulates the sentiments of a considerable majority of the Dartmouth faculty on this issue, we print the text in full.

"As members of the American Association of University Professors and of the faculty of Dartmouth College, we urge that the Attorney General's investigation of subversive activities in New Hampshire be discontinued. We recognize the legal right of a government to make investigations relevant to the drafting of wise legislation, as well as investigations concerning breaches of the law. The Attorney General's report of his investigation, dated January 5, 1955, suggests, however, that there is no present danger to the government of New Hampshire of such proportions as to justify a continuation of the investigation, no danger, that is, with which the established law enforcement agencies cannot cope. Moreover, we believe that the Attorney General's investigation is detrimental to the welfare of the commonwealth.

"We are especially concerned with those aspects of the investigation which affect the intellectual well-being of New Hampshire. The tone of the report of January 5, 1955, seems to us hostile to the life of the mind and suspicious of those who live it. The report includes such editorial comments as the following: 'Several of these [faculty members] revealed by their testimony an apparently amazing lack of awareness of the realities of current events, assuming their answers to be truthful.' The implications of this comment are that we, as teachers and intellectuals, are irresponsible, untrustworthy, and unfit to determine what reality is, whereas State investigators are fit arbiters and custodians of reality and right thinking. We reject such implications. They seem to us to reflect the dangerous distrust of the intellect which is widespread in our society.

"This distrust is also manifested in the argument of the report that the investigation had to concern itself with 'that part of the spectrum of freedom of speech which . . . approaches a definitive point beyond which the supreme legislative authority has constitutionally said citizens may not pass.' As members of the teaching profession we are gravely concerned with the implications of this statement for freedom of thought especially in the field of education.

"Moreover, the methods of the investigation as revealed by the report of January 5, 1955. seem to us dangerous. Much of the information presented in the report is derived from sources of doubtful reliability, such as secret informers, ex-communists, and persons and organizations of no special authority, including some not under oath. To credit such sources and to base allegations or insinuations upon their testimony is to employ the methods of totalitarianism.

"We believe that this investigation is an encroachment on liberty. Its effect is to spread the virus of suspicion and distrust among both teachers and students. No one can think freely when he is infected with that virus, and no one who cannot think freely can be educated. To maintain intellectual freedom is the peculiar dedication of the college. Education and scholarship require an absolute freedom of inquiry. There should be no limits, actual or potential, placed on the directions taken by the inquiring mind. No ideas should be taboo, none sacrosanct. Any suggestion that the classroom may be invaded by governmental authorities to restrict inquiry represents a threat to intellectual freedom in a most acute form. The colleges are not hotbeds of communism. They are hotbeds of ideas, orthodox and unorthodox, radical and conservative, right and wrong, for we must be free to examine wrong ideas to determine their wrongness.

"We believe that New Hampshire's motto, Live Free or Die, accurately describes the present precarious state of men's minds. Our concern is to defend their freedom scrupulously and vehemently, for to limit the mind's freedom is to kill it, and dead minds have no defense against communism or fascism or any other totalitarian evils which beset them.

"These considerations prompt us openly to state our opposition to a continuation of the Attorney General's investigation."

AT their April meeting the Trustees of the College promoted five faculty members from the rank of Assistant Professor to Professor and eight others from the rank of Instructor to Assistant Professor.

Those now holding full professorships are:

ALBERT H. HASTORF, Psychology; B. A., Amherst, 1942; M.A., 1947, Ph.D., 1949, Princeton; Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Palo Alto, Calif., 1954-55.

EDGAR H. HUNTER JR. '38, Art; Bachelor of Architecture, Harvard, 1941.

STEPHAN J. SCHLOSSMACHER, German, M.A., University of Wisconsin, 1930; Ph.D., University of Cologne, 1935.

FREDERICK W. STERNFELD, Music; University of Vienna; Ph.D., Yale, 1943.

PAUL R. ZELLER, Music; B. S., State Teachers College, Mansfield, Pa., 1935; Master of Music, University of Michigan, 1939.

Those promoted from Instructor to Assistant Professor are:

ROBERT W. CHRISTY, Physics; B. A., 1943, M.S., Ph.D., 1953, University of Chicago.

SEVERN P. C. DUVALL JR., English; B. A., University of Virginia, 1948; M.A., 1951, Ph.D. candidate, 1955, Princeton.

DAVID M. H. KERN, Chemistry; B. A., Harvard, 1946; Ph.D., University of California, 1949.

MRS. NADEZHDA T. KOROTON, Russian Civilization; Diploma in Slavic Philology, the Zaporozhye Pedagogical Institute, 1941.

RICHARD W. STERLING, Government; B. A., 1942, M. A., 1947, Ph.D. candidate, 1955, Yale.

HENRY L. TERRIE JR., English; B.A., 1942, Yale; M.A., 1949. Ph. D- candidate, 1955, Princeton.

RICHARD E. WAGNER, Art; B.F.A., M.F.A., University of Colorado, 1950.

DONALD W. WENDLANDT, Music and Director of the College Band; Master of Music, University of Wisconsin, 1946.

DR. ROY P. FORSTER, Professor of Zoology, is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for research during the coming year. An expert on kidney function, Dr. Forster will study "the energetics of active transport by renal tubule cells." In 1949 he received a Guggenheim Fellowship that resulted in his discovery of a widely adopted method for studying cellular action in tissue culture experiments. He will go to the University of Cambridge next February to begin a series of experiments in various European biological laboratories. At the same time he will hold consultations with other men doing research in cellular action. Dr. Forster plans to work at Cambridge and the University of London and then go to the Universities of Uppsala and Copenhagen. He will visit a number of German laboratories and also spend several weeks at the Naples Marine Biological Laboratory.

Dr. Forster, who was graduated from Marquette University in 1932, received his Ph.D. degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1938. He joined the Dartmouth faculty the same year as an instructor, was named an Assistant Professor in 1942 and Professor in 1948.

JAMES F. BEARD JR., Assistant Professor of English, has been awarded a Fulbright Lectureship in France for the coming year. During the first semester he will lecture on American literature at the University of Toulouse, and in the second semester he will teach at the University of Grenoble. Professor Beard expects to spend the coming summer in Paris.

PROFESSOR FRANK. G. RYDER of the German Department has recently received a fellowship from the Ford Foundation s Fund for the Advancement of Education. Professor Ryder, who is chairman of the College's Commission on Campus Life, plans to devote the coming year to further study of the influence of the non-curricular life of the college upon the welfare of the curriculum and the ultimate effectiveness of education. His study will take him to educational institutions in the East, Middle West, and perhaps to those on the West Coast. He plans to visit privately endowed and publicly supported institutions. In his work Professor Ryder will explore what can be done to make the extracurricular serve the educational aim and how the materials, the spirit and the personnel of instruction can figure more largely in the student's life. He will be on leave of absence for the full year.

AT their spring meeting the Trustees of the College made five new appointments to the faculty. The election of DeOrmond McLaughry to the rank of Professor of Physical Education has already been noted. Other appointments were Helmut Kuhn of Munich, Germany, Visiting Professor of Philosophy; Robert E. Dewey of the Institute for Philosophical Research, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; William C. Grant Jr. '49 of the College of William and Mary, Assistant Professor of Zoology; and John McCarthy of the Dartmouth faculty, Assistant Professor of Mathematics.

Professor Kuhn comes to Dartmouth for the term beginning February 1956, after seven years of teaching at the Universities of Erlangen and Munich. He has recently been made head of the Amerika-Institut at the University of Munich. Prior to that he taught in this country as Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina from 1938 to 1947, and at Emory University from 194,7 to 1949.

Professor Dewey, who received his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1949, is a graduate of the University of Nebraska. He has been an Assistant Professor at the University of Maryland, a Visiting Lecturer at Goucher College, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research, and a Lecturer in Philosophy at Mills.

Professor Grant, a graduate of Dartmouth in 1949, received his Ph.D. degree at Yale last June. While at Dartmouth he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and has held a Cramer Foundation Fellowship and Carnegie Research Grant. Professor Grant has been an Assistant Professor on the faculties of William and Mary and Gettysburg College.

Professor McCarthy, a graduate of California Institute of Technology, received his Ph.D. degree at Princeton University in 1951. He joined the Dartmouth faculty last February as an Assistant Professor, and prior to that had been an assistant professor at Stanford University.

JOHN G. KEMENY, Professor of Mathematics, has been appointed to two national committees concerned with the American undergraduate curriculum in mathematics. One is a planning committee of the American Mathematical Association and the other is a committee of the National Science Foundation making a study of the existing curriculum.

RALPH A. BURNS, Professor of Education, will be Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Alaska for the 1955 summer term. Professor and Mrs. Burns plan to leave Hanover early in June by automobile, driving the entire distance to Fairbanks and College, Alaska. The latter part of their trip will take them over the Alaska Highway, beginning at Dawson Creek, British Columbia. While her husband is teaching education courses, Mrs. Burns will be attending special courses in the flora of Alaska offered during

the summer session at the university.

Two Professors Who Are Retiring This Month

FACULTY SPEAKERS at a Hanover Holiday program in Springfield, Mass., were JohnC. Adams (left), Professor of History, and Chauncey N. Allen '24 (right), Professor ofPsychology, shown with Richard L. Danforth '29, president of the Springfield Club.

LESLIE F. MURCH, Professor of Physics, joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1915, after graduating from Colby College. He has been a full professor since 1935, and for many years has taught the large courses in elementary physics. He is co-author of a textbook on college physics, and also of two laboratory manuals. In his varied service to Dartmouth, he has been comptroller of the Outing Club and a faculty member of COSO and the DCAC. He is former president of the New Hampshire Golf Association and last month was made Grand Master of the Masons in New Hampshire.

I LEROY T. COOK, Professor of Romance Languages, came to Dartmouth as Assistant Professor in 1921 after teaching French at the University of Cincinnati, Colby College, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard and Tufts, from which he was graduated in 1909. He was promoted to full professor in 1947. He has been particularly interested in the French drama, is an ardent theatre-goer, and has acted in many plays put on by the French Club at Dartmouth. Professor Cook is an organist and pianist and has written several poems published as tone poems for piano.