THE FACULTY
RICHARD W. STERLING, Professor of Government, has been appointed a research associate at the Washington Center of Foreign Policy Research for the academic year 1959-60. He has been granted a year's leave of absence from the College in order to accept the appointment. The Washington Center is affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University and sponsors a limited number of scholars each year. They devote their full time to research in theoretical problems of international relations. Members of the Center participate in a joint seminar considering contemporary issues of foreign policy in addition to pursuing their own specified research projects. Professor Sterling plans to work on a theoretical approach to diplomacy, examining the nature, objectives, and characteristics of diplomacy as a political process. This is in part an outgrowth of the themes developed in his book, Ethics in a World of Power: thePolitical Ideas of Friedrich Meinecke, published in December by the Princeton University Press.
GEORGE B. SAUL II, Assistant Professor of Zoology, has been awarded a faculty fellowship for a year's study at the University of Zurich in Switzerland by the National Science Foundation. Professor Saul, whose field is genetics, will study gene action during embryological development. His leave of absence begins September 1, 1959. A member of the faculty since 1954, Professor Saul was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, where he took his master's and doctoral degrees. He is the author of several articles on genetics, published in scholarly journals. The faculty fellowships are part of a National Science Foundation program designed to improve the teaching of science, mathematics and engineering in U.S. colleges and universities.
VERNON HALL JR. Professor of Comparative Literature, is a contributor to a new volume of literary criticism published by New York University Press. Professor Hall's Study, entitled "Julius Caesar: A Play without Political Bias," is one of twenty contained in the collection, Studies in the English Renaissance Drama. He is also one of the volume's editors. The book was published in honor of Karl Julius Holsknecht, for many years professor of English at New York University.
At the recent meetings of the Modern Language Association in New York, Professor Hall was elected Secretary of Comparative Literature IV (The Renaissance) Section. Also of interest concerning Professor Hall is his election to the Advisory Board of College English by the National Council of Teachers of English.
FHERBERT BORMANN, Assistant Professor of Botany, has been awarded a 14,500 grant by the National Science Foundation to continue basic research on natural root grafting in pine trees. The grant became effective on December 19, 1958, and will cover a three-year period. Last summer Professor Bormann and Benjamin F. Graham Jr. of the Botany Department discussed initial results of experimental work on root grafting in a paper read before the Ecological Society of America, at a meeting of the American Institute of Biological Sciences at Indianapolis. They 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. Their research on pine stands in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont indicated 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. Water and dissolved materials can be moved about within each group, much as if it were a single tree. Under the new N.S.F. grant, the botanists plan to do research on the physiological significance of their discovery.
ANEW book by Professor Elmer Smead of the Government Department, Freedom of Speech by Radio and Television, will be published by the Public Affairs Press of Washington in March. In this work Professor Smead studies government regulation of programs and of the broadcasting spectrum. He describes the substantive regulations made by the government and its regulatory procedures. Also considered are conflicts of interest and the positions taken by the radio and television industry. Government regulation of business has been Professor Smead's field of special interest for many years. During the past ten years he has been particularly concerned with the broadcasting industry. Based on many interviews as well as more academic studies, his book is a description of the problems and the controversies concerning freedom of speech and censorship in one of America's most important industries.
Miss VIRGINIA LEE CLOSE, Reference Librarian at Baker Library, assumed her new duties as Acting Librarian of Mount Holyoke College last month. For the second semester she is replacing Miss Flora B. Ludington, who is spending her sabbatical doing research and traveling. Miss Close joined the library staff at Dartmouth in 1945 and since 1951 has been chief reference librarian. A member of the editorial board of the Dartmouth Library Bulletin, she has contributed articles to it. She also contributes an annual bibliography of publications about Russia in English to The Russian Review. Miss Close is a member of the American Library Association, Association of College and Research Librarians, and Special Libraries Association. She received an M.A. in American History from the University of Connecticut and a B.S. in Library Science from Simmons College.
PROFESSOR FRANCIS W. SEARS of the Physics Department was elected President of the American Association of Physics Teachers at a meeting of the Association late in January. At the same meeting, held jointly with the American Physical Society, Professor Leonard M. Rieser '44 presented a paper which told of his experiences in conducting physics classes in the Norwich schools. The June meeting of the Association is to be held at Dartmouth, according to Professor Sears. Some 150 to 200 physics professors from all over the country are expected to attend.
HWENTWORTH ELDREDGE '31, Professor . of Sociology, delivered two lectures recently at the NATO Defense College in Paris. This was the fifth time he has lectured before the Defense College. His two addresses, entitled "The Challenge of the Twentieth Century to the West" and "The West's Response," inaugurated the concluding section of the NATO Course and were followed by Robert Schuman, on "What the West Defends."
AT the Founder's Day Convocation of Pomona College held last fall, Harold R. Bruce, Professor of Government Emeritus, delivered the major address on the subject, "New Power - New Responsibility." Professor Bruce is presently John Hay Whitney Visiting Professor of Government at the college.
IT is with great regret that we record the recent death of Roy H. Lanphear '25, Professor of Greek and Latin at the College for thirty years. The news of his passing is treated more fully in another part of this issue, but we should like to say here simply Ave atque vale in tribute to him.
