The Faculty

PROFESSOR of Social Philosophy Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy has been invited by the West German Government to make a four-week inspection tour of the country in June. He plans to fly to Bonn June 4 and then for the next month to meet with cultural, educational and political leaders throughout the country. He has also been invited by the West German Ministry of Defense to lecture to officers of the new West German Army at the Ludwig von Beck Center. He will talk on "Peacetime Army or Wartime Army?" In 1952 Professor Rosenstock-Huessy was invited by the new West German Government to organize a new system for training teachers in a state-wide program of adult education. He went to Germany under the auspices of the U.S. State Department and spent several months in Bavaria. A native of Germany, Professor Rosenstock-Huessy received the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of Jurisprudence at the University of Heidelberg. He served four years with the German Army in World War I. He came to this country in 1933 to join the faculty of Harvard University where he was Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture. He came to Dartmouth in 1935.

DR. JAMES F. ROSS of the Department of Religion spoke recently at the Universalist Church in Concord, N.H., on "The Dead Sea Scrolls - a Challenge to Christianity?" under the sponsorship of the Greater Concord Council of Churches. The Council also is sponsoring Dr. Ross in a series of five lectures on the Bible, which are to be given in Concord, starting September 19, as a part of the work of the Religious Education Committee of the Council. Dr. Ross holds two degrees from Union Theological Seminary and has made a special study of the complete Isaiah Scroll as part of his advanced study. He is also a graduate of the American School of Oriental Research in Palestine.

PROF. ROBERT E. DEWEY of the Philosophy Department lectured recently in a Symposium on Curriculum at Saint Mary's College in California. Professor Dewey spoke on "The Place of the Humanities in a Liberal Arts Curriculum." The symposium was an attempt to direct the thinking of colleges and universities in the nation, engaged in curriculum improvement, toward the basic problems which arise in curriculum reconstruction. While in California Professor Dewey worked with Professors James L. Hagerty and Francis Keegan of the Saint Mary's faculty on the final compilation of a study of curriculum revision the three men have been doing under the sponsorship of the Rosenberg Foundation. A graduate of the University of Nebraska in 1943, Professor Dewe received his Ph.D. degree at Harvard in 1949. He came to Dartmouth from the faculty of Mills College, California, and from a post as research fellow at the Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco.

DAVID FULLER, Instructor in Music, appeared recently as harpsichordist with the Cemerata of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts in a concert of early music for members of the museum. He is scheduled to appear with the same group over television at the end of April.

RICHARD E. WAGNER, Assistant Professor of Art, was awarded a prize in the recent New Haven Railroad's painting contest for an oil entitled "River Bank." With the subject matter limited to New England, more than 2,000 oil and watercolor paintings were submitted in the contest from artists in twenty states and Canada. The prize winning paintings and 52 which received honorable mention will be exhibited in the Grand Central Art Galleries, Grand Central Terminal, New York City.

ROBERT K. CARR '29, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, was elected second vice-president of the American Association of University Professors at its annual meeting in St. Louis recently. At the same meeting the association, of which Dartmouth has an active chapter, censured five universities and a medical school. Acting on the recommendation of a special committee on academic freedom headed by Prof. Bentley Glass of Johns Hopkins University and including Professor Carr, the group censured each of the institutions under charges of dismissing faculty members who had invoked the Fifth Amendment before Congressional committees, refused to cooperate with the committees or refused to take loyalty oaths.

PROFESSOR of Oriental Culture and Philosophy Wing-tsit Chan, who is at present studying at the International House of Japan in Azabu, writes that his book Religious Trends in Modern China has been translated recently into German and Spanish. The German version was done by Dr. Marcella Roddewig and Grafin Gertrud von Helmstadt, under the tide Religioses Leben im Heutigen China; the Spanish version by Antonio Dorta, under the title Tendencias Religiosas de la ChinaModerna.

Dartmouth alumni will be pleased to hear that Dr. Chan writes further, "When I tell Japanese people that I am from Dartmouth, they don't say 'What?' but 'Hai' (Yes) - they know the name. And Cinerama Holiday, which, as you know has Hanover scenes and which is running here in Tokyo for the fourth month, also helps the Japanese to spell Dartmouth."

ASSISTANT Professor of Mathematics John McCarthy will represent Dartmouth at the $4,000,000 computation center to be established soon at M.I.T. Professor McCarthy will be a member of the advisory committee to formulate the research program for the center. The development is to be built around the new I.B.M. 704 Electronic Data Processing Machine. The machine is to run 24 hours a day, with M.I.T. and I.B.M. each using it for eight. The third shift is available to Dartmouth and other participating New England institutions. As a member of the advisory committee, Professor McCarthy is to discuss such specific questions as priorities for problems to be submitted to the machine and the suitability of problems being considered.

According to Professor McCarthy, "the new machine should make great contributions in helping faculty and students with their research. This may be the beginning of a new trend to allow educational institutions a chance to benefit from electronic machines. Previously such machines have not been offered for educational purposes but rather for use in industry and government." Made available by IBM at their expense, the computer is the principal tool in an education and research program designed to increase the number of computer specialists in a rapidly growing field essential to science, industry and government.

THE work of Warner Bentley, Henry Williams, George Schoenhut and Bill Davis with the Dartmouth Players was honored recently in a exhibit of achievements in the creative arts by alumni of the Yale graduate schools of art, architecture, and the drama. The exhibit includes photographs of the Players' productions and is on display at the Chicago Art Museum.