Ten Professors Retire This Month
364 Tears of Dartmouth Teaching
Andrew J. Scarlett '10, New Hampshire Professor of Chemistry, became a faculty member 46 years ago and except for graduate study at Columbia, 1913-17, has been steadily at the job of teaching general inorganic chemistry. His large lecture course has meant college chemistry for hundreds of Dartmouth men. He is author of two. chemistry texts used throughout the country.
Ellsworth D. Elston, Professor of Geology, was graduated from Cornell in 1912, taught geology there for the next eight years and then came to Dartmouth as Assistant Professor in 1920. He was promoted to full professor in 1926. His courses during his 37 years with the College have covered physical geology, glacial geology and geomorphology, and geology for engineers.
Henry M. Dargan, Willard Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, came to Dartmouth in 1923 as full Professor of English. A graduate of Mercer University, he took his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1914 and taught at the University of North Carolina for the next nine years. In his Dartmouth courses he has specialized in 18th century literature, particularly Swift, and has directed Honors work.
Frederick S. Page '13, Professor of Botany, joined the Dartmouth faculty in 1915 after graduate work at the University of Vermont. He became Assistant Professor in 1921 and full Professor in 1931. Forest Botany (trees and shrubs) has been one of his well-known courses, and he has also taught economic botany and algae and fungi. Hanover voters know him as Supervisor of the Checklist.
Harold E. Washburn '10, Professor of French, taught at Dartmouth for one year, 1914-15, then went off to Harvard and the war, and returned in 1919 to begin 38 continuous years of service. He has been a full professor since 1934 and has given a course in the French novel in addition to teaching elementary courses.
Nathaniel G. Burleigh '11, Professor of Industrial Management at Tuck School, has held that post since 1919, when he gave up a business career to teach. He was a War Production Board official in 1941-45 and has been consultant to the National Resources Board as well as many business firms. Class secretary for 1911 since 1921, he has been active as Hanover Precinct Commissioner and hospital trustee and was dean of a new business school in Italy in 1951-52.
WILLIAM DOTY MAYNARD '11 (who stuck to his guns about not wanting his picture taken for this issue) retires this month after teaching French at Dartmouth since 1919. Since 1941 he has been Professor of Romance Languages, teaching courses in French literature of the 17th and 18th centuries, as well as courses in the language. After Dartmouth, he studied at Heidelberg, Harvard and the Sorbonne.
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy, Professor of Social Philosophy, came to Dartmouth from Harvard in 1935. A distinguished scholar and government official in Germany, he fled the Hitler regime two years earlier. Western Philosophy and Problems of Modern Society have been among his Dartmouth courses. He has been a prolific author and is now in West Germany at the invitation of that government.
James P. Poole, Professor of Botany, came to Dartmouth in 1922 as Instructor in Evolution, after graduate work at Harvard and teaching in Kansas and Wyoming. He became Professor of Evolution in 1927 and Professor of Botany in 1936. He has been a senior member of the Committee on Educational Policy and of the joint committee that devised the College's new curriculum.
Sidney C. Hazelton '09, Professor of Physical Education, began his faculty career in 1920 in French also, which he taught until 1928. He has helped coach football and baseball and was varsity swimming coach for nine years. In physical education he has concentrated on swimming and written several aquatic manuals.
