The Faculty
JAMES F. CUSICK, Professor of Economics, has recently been appointed director of the Great Issues Course for the coming year. Succeeding Robert K. Carr '29, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, Professor Cusick is the tenth director of the course, which is required of all members of the senior class. In commenting on the course, which brings to the seniors outstanding figures from business, politics, the arts, and other areas of human endeavor, Professor Cusick noted that a questionnaire study of a few years ago showed that graduates five years out of college looked back on Great Issues as their most valuable educational experience. Begun in 1947 at the suggestion of President Dickey, who served as its first director, the course has been adopted widely by other American colleges and universities during the ten years since its inception.
WING-TSIT CHAN, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, discussed recent Chinese thought pertaining to the topic, "The Solution of Practical and Moral Problems Through the Use of Reason," at the Institute for Religious and Social Studies in New York recently. Speaking also at the Department of State's Institute of Foreign Studies, Professor Chan gave three lectures to junior career officers of the Foreign Service. His subject was Chinese thought. The junior officers are participating in an intensive course on China prior to their assignment in Asia.
RICHARD W. STERLING, Assistant Professor of Government, is the author of an article published in the March 11 edition of The New Leader. The article is entitled "The Squeeze on Europe" and is the result of Professor Sterling's study, while in Europe during November and December, of European reactions to the crises in Hungary and at the Suez.
RICHARD E. WILLIAMSON, Instructor in Mathematics, presented a paper entitled "On Cyclical Variation Diminishing Transformations" at a meeting of the American Mathematical Society in New Haven, Conn., on February 24. Co-authors of the study were I. J. Schoenberg and J. C. Mairhuber.
PROFESSOR Francis W. Sears of the Physics Department was reelected secretary of the American Association of Physics Teachers, the association announced recently. Professor Sears is a visiting professor at the College, coming here in 1955 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
RICHARD EBERHART '26, Professor of English and well-known poet, conducted a discussion about the teaching of poetry at the annual midwinter meeting of the School and College Conference on English held at Barnard College in New York. Over one hundred teachers of English from schools and colleges on the Eastern seaboard attended the meeting. The title of Professor Eberhart's address was "Give It English."
PROFESSOR Vernon Hall Jr. of the Department of Comparative Literature has been named a Sponsor of the Second Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association which will be held in September 1958 at the University of North Carolina. This congress will be attended by the leading comparative literature scholars of Europe and Asia, thanks to a grant from the Ford Foundation which will meet the expenses of foreign scholars. Professor Hall has recently completed his term as Chairman of the Comparative Literature Section of the Modern Language Association. He has since been elected a member of the Advisory and Nominating Committee of that section. Also, Professor Hall has been asked by the New York University Press to be one of the editors of a volume in memory of Professor Karl Holzknecht who died last year.
ONE bright element on the late February and early March Hanover scene has been the excellent music provided for the College and the town by instrumental and choral groups under the direction of the faculty of the Music Department. The Dartmouth Glee Club combined with the Smith Glee Club to give a very impressive performance of Handel's "Israel in Egypt." The group of 130 voices with soloists, organ, and string accompaniment was di- rected by Professor Paul R. Zeller. Assistant Professor Donald Wendlandt directed the College Band in a Sunday afternoon concert in Webster Hall. The program consisted of familiar selections and marches as well as original band compositions. The Dartmouth Madrigal Singers gave a concert of sacred works by Brahms, Verdi, and early English composers, under the direction of Instructor David Fuller. Finally, Gaston Elcus, Associate in Music and Professor James A. Sykes, chairman of the Music Department, gave a violin and piano recital in Rollins Chapel. The program consisted of Corelli's Sonata No. 1, Mozart's Sonata in B-flat, and Debussy's piano-violin sonata.
PAUL SAMPLE '20, Artist in Residence, exhibited a new work done in oil at the 132nd Annual Exhibition for the National Academy of Design, February 21-March 17. Mr. Sample's painting is included in a showing of 202 works from eighteen states and the District of Columbia.
A REPORT from the relatively new faculty committee on research indicates that four members of the faculty were granted partial reductions of their teaching load or leaves of absence for the purpose of conducting research this year. Leaves of absence to Elias L. Rivers and Robert Gutman have already been reported in this column. Hugh M. Davidson, Professor of Romance Languages, was granted a reduction of his teaching load by three-fourths in the second semester to pursue studies in French literature of the seventeenth century. Harold L. Bond '42, Assistant Professor of English, was granted a reduction of his teaching load by two-thirds in the first semester to work on a study of the literary values of Gibbon's The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In addition, twenty faculty members received cash grants for the various expenses of their research, and ten men received grants for the purchase of reprints of their articles.
THE faculty was deeply grieved to learn of the death of Harold G. Rugg '06, Associate Librarian, Emeritus, of the College. Mr. Rugg has been connected with the College since he entered as a freshman in 1902, and although his achievements will be treated fully in another section of this issue, we wish to take this opportunity to pay tribute to his memory.
