The Faculty
SEVERAL faculty members have spoken recently before educational groups or learned societies. Dean of the Faculty Arthur E. Jensen addressed the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University at Tallahassee on February 14, and spoke also to Dartmouth alumni groups at St. Petersburg and Sarasota. Hugh M.Davidson, Professor of Romance Languages, read a paper entitled "Conflict and Resolution in Pascal's Pensees" at the annual meeting of the Modern Language Association in Washington, D. C. TrevorLloyd, Professor of Geography, attended the recent meetings of the Canadian Association of Geographers at Hamilton College, Hamilton, Ontario, where he presented a paper on "The Future Welfare of the Canadian Eskimos" as a concluding item in a symposium on the development of the Far North. Albert H.Hastorf, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychology, served as a panel member for a session on teaching and education at the sixth annual Career Conference recently held at Amherst College. During the two-day session, more than forty business leaders, professional men, government officials and scientists met with Amherst students on career planning.
PROFESSOR of Biography Donald Bartlett '24 spoke on Daniel Webster before a joint session of the New Hampshire Legislature on January 18. The occasion was the 175th anniversary of Webster's birth. Of Webster, he said, in part: "A sense of kinship with him and the glory that his name adds to the state of his birth need no argument. We know these things. But we do well to take further note that it was in Salisbury that he learned how to outgrow his home, as it was in Salisbury that his father loyally and deliberately helped him so to do. It was at Exeter and at Dartmouth that were forged his weapons as a champion, and at Portsmouth that he learned how a champion wields those weapons better than his fellows....Daniel Webster stands in the history of our country as a conservative - and so we may be sure he would wish to stand. But he was a conservative of that rarest breed, who do not anchor progress in the past but steer ever forward upon a sure star. His star was the Federal Constitution, that appeared in the heavens when Daniel was: five years old....As a statesman he did perhaps more than any man in his time to steer the nation by that same star.
"In 1818 when many of his associates were for usurping the charter of his beloved college, he came to her defense. He joined with the able lawyers already marshaled on her side, and by his championing made history in our federal courts and saved Dartmouth College in the responsible nurture of free minds."
JOHN LYONS from the University of Florida joined the faculty as an Instructor in English at the beginning of the second semester last month. Prior to coming to Dartmouth Mr. Lyons taught at the University of Florida, where he is a candidate for the Ph.D. degree. The title of his dissertation which he is engaged in completing is "The Novel of Academic Life in America, 1900-1955."
PROFESSOR Allen L. King of the Physics Department is on leave for the second semester, which he is spending in Tougaloo, Mississippi. There he is assisting in a comprehensive evaluation of the science program of Tougaloo College, a Congregational American Missionary College for Negroes. He will also help design a new science building for the college.
PROFESSOR H. Wentworth Eldredge '31, Chairman of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, left recently for London, where he will study eight of the British New Towns. The towns he will study are independent communities of nearly 50,000 population, situated in a ring around London about 35 miles from the city's center. The towns contain home, work and community facilities and were inaugurated in 1946 as an alternative to rebuilding the shattered and overcrowded center of London. Professor Eldredge is on leave for the second semester.
ALSO on leave for the second semester are Professor Carl L. Wilson of the Botany Department, who will study primitive flowering plants in Australia, and Professor Thomas Vance of the Department of English, who will continue his work on Dante, Shelley, and Eliot. Professor Lawrence Railway of the Government Department will spend his sabbatical leave in Europe at the NATO Defense College, where he will make a study similar to the one he has just completed in the field of U. S. military education. Also in Europe on sabbatical leave are Professor FrancoisDenoeu of the Romance Languages Department, who will travel in France, and Professor Stephan J. Schlossmacher of the German Department who will visit Germany.
Professor Trevor Lloyd of the Geography Department plans to visit a large number of European universities in a study of the newest methods of teaching geography. He plans also to work at the Danish Arctic Institute and to lecture at the Universities of Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm, Upsala, Helsinki, and Copenhagen.
Also on leave for the second semester are Professor of Mathematics Fred W.Perkins, and Professor of Art and Archeology John B. Stearns '16. Professor Stearns will travel through France, Switzerland, Italy, Greece and Turkey to Persia.
LEBANON COLLEGE, a new community college for adult education, opened its doors February 13. Close to Hanover, the college was founded by a regional group in which Albert S. Carlson, Professor of Geography at Dartmouth, played a very active role. Professor Carlson, secretary of the Dartmouth-Lake Sunapee Region, is a trustee of the new college. Another Dartmouth professor, Dr. Ralph A. Burns, Chairman of the Education Department, spoke at the convocation meeting. Professor Burns described the need for adult education throughout the country and praised Lebanon College as "a pioneer effort in Northern New England."
Several Dartmouth faculty members are giving evening courses at Lebanon College. Two instructors in the Psychology Department, Kenneth T. Dinklage and Harry A. Burdick, are teaching "Psychology of Personal and Social Adjustment"; Robert E. Huke '48 of the Geography Department is offering a course called "Troubled Lands of Asia"; and Professor Almon C. Ives of the Speech Department; is giving a course in public speaking.
The new college opened with an enrollment of 101 and is using the facilities of Lebanon High School for the time being.
FHERBERT BORMANN, Assistant Professor of Botany, attended the Radioisotope Techniques School in early February at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, a school sponsored by the Oak Ridge Institute of Nuclear Studies.
