The Faculty
ANEW educational offering on the Dartmouth campus this semester is the Faculty Seminar in Elementary Statistics given by the Department of Mathematics. The purpose of this course is to acquaint the faculty with the basic statistics course (Mathematics 10) which the Department intends to offer students for the first time in the academic year 1958"1959"1959. a knowledge of the content of the course will help teachers in future work with students and also serve as a common basis for consulting with faculty members having statistical problems in their own research. The Mathematics Department feels that the participants in the course will be able to make valuable suggestions on the topics to be covered and on possible applications and examples arising in their own particular fields. Weekly meetings of about an hour and a half have been planned, with four to six meetings devoted to probability before starting with statistics proper. Approximately forty faculty members have enrolled for the course.
"PROFESSOR Richard Eberhart '26, Poet in Residence and member of the English Department, recently went to St. Louis where on January 19 he and two other poets, John Ciardi, poetry editor of the Saturday Review, and Kenneth Rexroth, leader of the San Francisco school, made an educational television film at Station KETC. This was the first in a series entitled "Values of American Life." The sponsor of the series is the Educational Television and Radio Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan. The three poets spoke individually, and they were asked some sixty questions by a board of sociologists. It is expected that the film will be available in about six months.
PROFESSOR Lawrence G. Hines of the Economics Department, in addition to teaching a full schedule at Dartmouth, has been Economic Consultant for the United States Public Health Service for the past year. Late last summer he delivered a paper on "Research in the Economics of Water Resources" at the University of California Conference on Economics of Water Resources at Lake Arrowhead, California. In December he spoke at the Academy of Science meeting in Dallas, Texas, on "The Economics of Water Conservation." His report, "Use of Natural Resource Expenditures to Promote Growth and Stability in the Ameri- can Economy," was published by the Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy of the 85th Congress, 1st Session. He also testified on Government Expenditure Policy before the Joint Economic Committee of the 85th Congress.
In addition to these activities, Professor Hines is United States Public Health Service Project Director for the University of Chicago and Stanford University Public Health Service research contracts. These two projects, involving eight to ten researchers, are attempts to quantify certain intangible benefits of water pollution abatement. Reports are made to Professor Hines, who checks progress in person at Chicago and Stanford every three or four months or meets in Washington with the on-site directors. The projects are basic economic research attempts to develop techniques of analysis.
PROFESSOR Herbert Garfinkel of the Government Department has been appointed a Fellow for the coming year at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto, California. The Center, which is supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation, provides an opportunity for leading scholars in the behavioral sciences to do basic research in their fields. Professor Garfinkel will be working on a systematic theory of political groups and movements. He and Dr. James F. Tierney, also of the Government Department, are co-authors of an article in the December issue of the AmericanPolitical Science Review: "A Coordinat. ing Course in the Political Science Major." The article is of special interest to Dartmouth alumni, for it describes the coordinating course which was pioneered by the Dartmouth Government Depart, ment and is now being offered for the third time. Professor Garfinkel will be on leave for the whole year.
PROFESSOR Francis W. Sears of the Physics Department was named presidentelect of the American Association of Physics Teachers at the annual meeting of the organization in New York recently. Professor Sears will assume the office a year from now.
PROFESSOR John Masland of the Government Department attended a threeday meeting of the National Defense Executive Reserve recently. The Reserve is a select corps of officials designated to carry on the government of the United States in time of emergency. Professor Masland was appointed to the State Department unit last year. The recent meeting was the second training period for the Executive Reserve corps since its establishment in 1956, and two such sessions annually are now planned.
DR. A. Lincoln Washburn '35, Professor of Northern Geology, was honored by the New Zealand government recently for his help in the rescue of a New Zealand seaman in the Antarctic. Dr. Wash- burn was carrying out his International Geophysical Year duties aboard the USSGreenville Victory at the time of the rescue. The citation from the New Zealand government commended Dr. Washburn for behaving in the highest traditions of his country.
ASSISTANT PROFESSOR Robert S. Burger, Research Editor at the Amos Tuck School, will conduct a seminar for a group of financial executives on "How to Write Financial Reports." The seminar is sponsored by the American Management Association and will meet in late February, and early March at the Shera-ton-Astor Hotel in New York.
IN addition to those teachers mentioned last month as being on leave for the second semester this year, Professor John Stewart of the English Department should be listed. Professor Stewart will spend his leave on the west coast of Florida, where he hopes to complete his book on The Fugitives, a group of contemporary American writers.
Dartmouth's flag flies on the front of the Waldorf on the day of the Hopkins Dinner.
