The Faculty
PROF. ARTHUR M. WILSON of the Government and Biography Departments is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship for the coming year. Professor Wilson plans to use the grant to continue his research in Europe on the biographies of Diderot and D'Alembert, co-founders of the Encyclopedie. He will spend most of his time in Paris and England and hopes to go to Leningrad. "The work on Diderot," Professor Wilson explained, "will go into the second volume of my biography of him." The first volume was the result of a previous Guggenheim grant in 1939-40. Upon submitting the manuscript of this first volume to the Oxford University Press in 1953, Professor Wilson was awarded a $1000 prize by the Modern Language Association and the Oxford Press for the "best work submitted that year in the field of foreign languages." Professor Wilson has been invited to lecture on Diderot at the University College of the South West in England.
ALSO on leave from the Government Department for the year is Prof. Richard W. Sterling, who will continue to prepare for publication a manuscript dealing with the political ideas of Friedrich Meincke and will also undertake research on the techniques of diplomacy. He will be working in Switzerland and Germany under a grant-in-aid from the Rockefeller Foundation.
Other Dartmouth teachers on leave of absence for the coming year are Prof. Edmund H. Booth '18 of the English Department who plans to continue his research in Shakespeare and to visit the Shakespearean theatres in Ohio, Connecticut, Ontario, Oregon, and Stratford-on-Avon; Prof. A. Lincoln Washburn '35 of the Geology Department, who will continue his study in the Antarctic and the Arctic; and Prof. Robert A. Kavesh of the Economics Department, who will spend the year serving as Economist for the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York. Elias L. Rivers, Assistant Professor of Spanish, will continue a study of the love sonnet of the Spanish Golden Age under a grant from the Howard Fellowship. Francis W. King, Assistant Professor of Psychology and Clinical Psychologist in the Office of Student Counseling, will spend the year in a clinical setting for the purpose of gaining additional training and experience.
ON leave for the first semester of 1956-57 will be Artemas Packard, Professor of Art, who will prepare a monograph describing the evolution of the Orozco frescoes at Dartmouth; and George C. Wood, Professor of Belles Lettres, who will go to Rome and continue his work on the Romanesque poet, Giovanni Gioacchino Belli. Prof. Earl R. Sikes of the Department of Economics will spend the first semester working on a revision of his Contemporary Economic Systems and visiting other educational institutions. Prof. Richard E. Stoiber '32 of the Department of Geology plans to carry on his geological studies in the copper mining region of Arizona, particularly in the Helvetia Mining District near Tuscon. Prof. Stearns Morse of the English Department will spend part of his leave in Europe. Prof. Wayne E. Stevens of the History Department will continue his research and writing in the field of 18th century American history and plans to travel in this country and Canada. Prof. Robert A. McKennan '25 of the Department of Sociology will prepare for publication his monograph on the Northern Athapaskan Indians of Alaska. He also plans to visit archeological sites in the Southwest and in Mexico. Dr. Stephen B. Baxter of the History Department will also be absent during the first semester. He will engage in research in England on a grant-in-aid from the Social Science Research Council.
Louis MENAND, Assistant Professor of Government, has resigned to accept appointment as Dean of Bradford Junior College. Professor Menand has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1952. He will assume his new duties in July. A graduate of Middlebury College, he received his Ph.D. in political science at the Maxwell Graduate School of Syracuse University in 1952. He is a former member of the Vassar College faculty and has twice served as a government consultant in Washington.
FREDERICK W. STERNFELD, Professor of Music, has resigned his position at Dartmouth to accept a University Lectureship in the History of Music at Oxford University. Professor Sternfeld will assume his new duties in England on October 1, 1956. He has been a Guggenheim Fellow, a Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the recipient of awards from the MacDowell and Oberlander Foundations. His book on Goethe and Music was published in 1954 and has had enthusiastic reviews in this country and abroad. From June 1954 until February 1956 Professor Sternfeld was on leave from Dartmouth to devote himself to research, both in Princeton and in Europe. During this period he gave guest lectures at the University of Reading, England, before the Cercle Nationale des Recherches Scientifique, Paris, and for the meeting of the American Musicological Society at Yale University. Mr. Sternfeld's special interest is the study of music for drama, in past centuries as well as in the present. He is now engaged in writing two books, one on Music inShakespeare's Plays and one on Music forthe Cinema. For the Mozart Bicentennial in 1956 he has recently published four articles on Mozart's operas (in the Musical Quarterly and Opera News), and he is to be one of the speakers in the Mozart Festival to be held at the Shakespeare Theatre of Stratford, Connecticut, on June 2, 1956. A native of Vienna, educated at the Universities of Cambridge, Vienna, and Yale, Mr. Sternfeld came to America in 1938 and to Dartmouth in 1946. He was promoted to full professor last year.
THE English Department was host recently to representatives from thirty New England secondary schools for an English Teachers' Conference on "Problems and Ideas in English Teaching." Prof. James D. McCallum of the Dartmouth faculty talked at an after-dinner meeting on "Freshman English for the Exceptional Student." The conference opened in the afternoon of April 28 with a panel discussion of "Problems and Ideas in Secondary School Teaching of English," in which Philip Burnham of St. Paul's School, Concord, Floyd Rinker of Newton (Mass.) High School, and Louis Zahner of Groton (Mass.) School participated. On the following morning there was a second panel discussion with Dartmouth faculty members giving brief talks: Prof. John Finch, chairman of English 1-2, discussed "What Should Freshman English Be?" and Prof. F. Cudworth Flint, chairman of the English Department, presented "Some Reflections on the College English Major." Dean of the Faculty Arthur E. Jensen spoke on "A College Curriculum for Tomorrow."
NINE Dartmouth professors will be on leave of absence for the second semester of the coming academic year. Prof. John B. Stearns '16 of the Department of the Classics will continue his research on the Assyrian reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal at Calah (Nimrud), which will involve travel in this country, Europe, the Near East, and India. Prof. Lawrence G. Hines of the Department of Economics plans to complete his study of The Utilization of Natural Resources in the AmericanEconomy. Prof. Thomas H. Vance of the English Department will work on his book on Dante, Shelley and Eliot. Prof. Trevor Lloyd of the Geography Department will undertake further research into the economic and human geography of northern lands, particularly those adjacent to the North Atlantic Ocean. Prof. Stephan J. Schlossmacher of the Department of German plans to study the modern German theatre in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and may add a visit to the German colonies in Latin America. Laurence I. Radway, Assistant Professor of Government, plans to continue research and writing in the area of military and national security affairs, spending some time at Harvard University and in Washington. Prof. Fred W. Perkins of the Department of Mathematics and Astronomy expects to spend a substantial part of his time on mathematical study. Prof. Francois Denoeu of the Department of Romance Languages will go to France where he will engage in compiling a French-American, American-French dictionary. Prof. H. Wentworth Eldredge '3l of the Department of Sociology will go to England for lecturing and further study of the "New Towns."
