THE FACULTY

IN keeping with the plan established last year, I should like to continue to report some of the changes in the curriculum which are now going into effect under the three-term, three-course system. Last spring I described changes in the English, psychology, and physics curricula, and this month I should like to turn to the Department of Government.

In the new program in government the old introductory course, Government i, is replaced by two new courses. Government 1 studied the United States government, whereas Government 5 and 6 are concerned with "Political Ideals" and "American and Foreign Governments." Government 5, a course of special interest, considers the enduring issues of politics with particular attention to the roots of contemporary democratic and totalitarian thought. Competing claims to power and different views of the proper role of government in relation to individuals, groups and other states are also studied. Basic texts in this course are the classical works of political theory by such writers as Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, and Hobbes. "American and Foreign Governments" is a comparative inquiry into modern politics and government with special reference to the United States.

In addition to these two courses Government 7, a course in international politics, is required for all prospective majors in the field. This course deals with the nature of the international community of states, the basic factors which motivate national policies, and the instruments for the conduct of international relations. Particular attention is devoted to power politics, international economic relations, ideological and cultural differences, political institutions, and nationalism. All three of these introductory courses are offered for two semesters each.

After the spring of this year the Department will discontinue the senior coordinating course, Government 102. Under the old curriculum, this course gave students perspective on the entire major, but in the new curriculum the Department hopes to accomplish the purpose of this course more effectively by increasing the required basic courses from two to three, by the redesign of these courses, by placing greater emphasis in them upon theory and analysis, and by the new required reading program for the major. In this way much of the instruction delayed until senior year in the old program will be provided in the required courses and in the two-year reading program.

Many other courses offered in the old curriculum, such as Government 22, "Government, Politics and Diplomacy of Soviet Russia," and Government 25, "United Nations and World Government," will be carried over into the new program substantially unchanged. In all these courses, however, the Department has increased the number of papers that students write.

The new program also emphasizes independent honors study for selected students. In some cases the entire major program of the senior year will be arranged into thesis, seminar, and reading courses. Seniors working under one or more members of the staff will be able to do independent projects, readings, and even substantial research if they desire.

PROFESSOR Donald Bartlett '24, chairman of the Biography Department, has been appointed Cultural Attache for the United States Information Agency in Tokyo, Japan, for the next two years. He will be on leave from the College for this period and will serve as a government liaison officer for American-Japanese cultural and intellectual exchange. He will reside in Tokyo, and his duties will include representing the government at cultural and academic meetings, assisting American artists and professors traveling in Japan and Japanese who wish to travel in this country. Speaking the Japanese language fluently, Professor Bartlett will address meetings and aid the American embassy in entertaining Japanese and American guests. He will assume his position later this fall after extensive briefings in Washington.

THE relationships of form in music and the visual arts are demonstrated in a series of educational-television films made in Denver, Colorado, last summer. Professor James A. Sykes, chairman of the Music Department, was the principal participant in the ten half-hour kinescopes which were filmed by Denver's station KRMA-TV. The series, entitled "Music in Focus," was contracted for by the Educational Radio and Television Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan. The Denver station was selected because of its high technical standards and excellent facilities for production.

Professor Sykes, former dean of the Lamont School of Music at Denver, reports that the programs were an outgrowth of courses he taught at Colgate University and Dartmouth. The program format is a musical series using visual art of many kinds to demonstrate its relationship to the organization and structure of music. Sculpture, paintings and ceramics were used. Orchestral exercises conducted by Professor Sykes were performed by firstchair men of the Denver Symphony Orchestra. A concert pianist and former soloist with the Denver Symphony, Professor Sykes himself played in several of the programs. The series, designed for adult education and entertainment, will be released to the 32 affiliates of the Michigan Educational Radio and Television Center in January.

PROFESSOR Trevor Lloyd of the Geography Department has announced the recent completion of a new map showing the distribution of Eskimos in North America. The 4' by 5' map, based on 1950-51 census figures, was begun in 1953 as a teaching aid for a new course on the geography of northern lands when it was found that no satisfactory map showing such distribution existed.

Several problems were encountered in drafting the map. Published statistics were not sufficiently detailed and it was necessary to secure original records from Washington, Ottawa and Copenhagen. Difficulty arose in locating some settlements even after consultation with Dartmouth's large group of northern research experts. This was partly because Eskimo place names are descriptive and often duplicated in such common references as the heart-shaped island," or the "red cliff." Some did not appear at all on available maps. With the increasing modernization of Greenland's economy, some small settlements had disappeared, and the Eskimos had been absorbed into the European population. But with these difficulties overcome, the map was originally drafted by Joseph Smutnik '54, a former graduate student in geography. Later the whole of the material was rechecked by another student, Robert Dudley '58.

Photographic copies of the map have been given to the Greenland Ministry in Copenhagen, the Arctic Institute of North America, the Canadian government, the American Geographical Society and the map collection of Baker Library. Professor Lloyd plans also to send a copy to the Institute of Geography in Moscow. IN a paper read to the Ecological Society of America recently, Professors F. H. Bormann and Benjamin F. Graham Jr. of the Botany Department described how they had located natural grafts between the roots of forest trees by a technique using red dye and radioactive chemicals introduced into freshly cut pine stumps. Results of their work in pine stands in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont indicate that the forest is made up not of a number of individual trees, but of groups of trees which are grafted together below the ground. In commenting on the possible ecological significance of their discovery, the botanists said knowledge of natural root grafts promises to be useful in the control of plant diseases and in forest management and water supplies. Their experimental work is supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Atomic Energy Commission.

WING-TSIT CHAN, Professor of Chinese Culture and Philosophy, spoke in New York on October 21 in the series on "How Great Men of the Past Could Aid Current Thought," sponsored by the Institute for Religious and Social Studies. The Institute fellowship is composed of clergymen and educators who are concerned with the many social, cultural and religious issues now confronting spiritually minded men.

PHILIP L. HANDLER, Instructor of English, has received an educational exchange award from the State Department's International Education Exchange Service, and is studying modern literature at the University of Paris during the present academic year.

JOHN H. GEROULD '90, Professor of Biology Emeritus, received greetings and congratulations from a wide circle of friends on his 90th birthday on October 2. A message from President Dickey said, "May I use the happy occasion of your ninetieth birthday once again to pay you tribute for a life that has enriched Dartmouth, thousands of her graduates, the world of scholarship and, above all, your neighbors and friends. We all salute you on this wonderful anniversary of your first day."

Professor Gerould began teaching at Dartmouth in 1894 and retired in 1938, at which time the Trustees elected him professor emeritus.

Prof. Donald Bartlett '24 (right), named U. S. Cultural Attache to Japan, is sworn in by Foreign Service Officer L. K. Little '14.