THE FACULTY
ELMER HARP JR., Professor of Anthropology, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for study in Denmark next year. An expert on ancient Eskimo cultures, Professor Harp was invited by the National Museum in Copenhagen to join its staff as a research scholar on Eskimos. Following this invitation, he applied for and received the Fulbright Scholarship. Speaking of his plans, Professor Harp called Denmark "the world's greatest center for the study of Eskimos.
Professor Harp has been granted a year's leave of absence from Dartmouth, and he and his family will go to Copenhagen in August and remain there through the academic year. He plans to spend the following summer in Greenland with the Danes.
Professor Harp has made several expeditions to Newfoundland and Lapland to search for traces of two extinct cultures, the Cape Dorset Eskimo and the Beothuk Indian, believed to be the earliest settlers in the northeastern part of the continent. Last summer he made a two-month expedition to Canada's Barren Grounds near the Arctic Circle to seek evidence of a relationship between prehistoric Eskimo cultures of the western and eastern sectors of the Arctic dating back to 2000 B.C.
A member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1946, Professor Harp received his doctorate from Harvard. He is one of the founding officers of the New Hampshire Archaeological Society and a member of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for American Archaeology.
THE Mathematics Department has been awarded a one-year grant of 115,800 by the National Science Foundation for the support of basic research. Headed by Dr. J. Laurie Snell, who returns from a year's leave of absence, the project investigates practical applications of recent developments in the field of theoretical probability. Two visiting mathematicians, Miss Grace Bates, chairman of the Mathematics Department at Mount Holyoke College, and Dr. V. E. Benes of the New Jersey Bell Telephone Co., will come to Dartmouth for one year as participants and visiting lecturers. John B. Fraleigh, Instructor in Mathematics at Dartmouth, will take Miss Bates' place on the Mount Holyoke faculty for the next academic year.
Professor John G. Kemeny, chairman of Dartmouth's Mathematics Department, said that the grant is the largest to be received by the Department in a single year. The research staff for the project includes Assistant Professor Richard E. Williamson and four undergraduate mathematics majors, as well as Dr. Snell and the two visiting mathematicians.
SCHEDULED for April publication by Henry Holt and Co. is a book entitled Courtship and Marriage by Professor Francis E. Merrill '36 of the Sociology Department. This is a revised and much expanded version of a book of the same title that Professor Merrill published in 1949. The book is intended primarily as a textbook for college courses in "Courtship and Marriage," "Marriage and the Family," and just plain "Marriage," to give a few of the titles under which such work is currently being offered in more than 1,000 institutions of higher learning in this country. Among the topics discussed at chapter length or longer in the book are dating, steady dating, marital choice, engagement, employment of married women, parental roles, divorce, marriage counseling, marriage education, and the prediction of success in marriage.
PROFESSOR Robert E. Huke '48 of the Department of Geography delivered a paper on "Ifugao Rice Terraces of Northern Luzon" at the meeting of the Association of American Geographers in Pittsburgh, March 31. The Ifugaos are a primitive Philippine mountain tribe, and they have developed one of the most magnificent rice terraces in the world, according to Professor Huke. He did field research there while in the Philippines from September 1955 to September 1956. In his paper Professor Huke explains the terraces, their history and extent, and traces the route of migration of the Ifugaos.
JAMES H. WINTER '47, Instructor in Great Issues, has been granted a year's leave of absence to write his thesis on "The Nature and Politics of Mid-Victorian Liberalism." The recipient of a Danforth Foundation Fellowship for next year, Mr. Winter will submit his dissertation to Harvard University in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the doctorate degree in English history.
"PROFESSOR John B. Gazley of the History Department was one of the panelists at a special conference on "The New Germany" held at the University of New Hampshire in late March. The conference is sponsored by the New Hampshire Council on World Affairs in cooperation with Bradford Junior College, Dartmouth, Keene Teachers College, Rivier College, New England College, and St. Anselm's College. The speakers included the Honorable Wilhelm Grewe, German Ambassador to the United States, and Martin Hillenbrandt, Director, Office of German Affairs, U.S. State Department.
ARTIST in Residence Paul Sample '20, N.A., exhibited a painting in the 134th annual exhibition of the National Academy of Design, held at the academy's New York galleries recently. The exhibition contained 255 exhibits, paintings, sculptures, and prints, by artists from 21 states. Mr. Sample's oil, titled "Woodwind Group," was based on a sketch he penciled in Webster Hall while listening to a performance by a woodwind quintet. The National Academy of Design is the oldest art group in New York City, and was organized and is administered by artists for the advancement of art in this country. Mr. Sample has been a member since 1940.
MARCUS A. MCCORISON, Chief of the Rare Books Department in Baker Library, has been named president of the New Hampshire Library Association. He is presently engaged in arranging for the joint meeting of the New Hampshire and Vermont Library Associations to be held in Hanover on June 3-4 this year.
PROFESSOR James Sykes, chairman of the Music Department, flew to Bermuda in early March to give two piano recitals, the first for the Bermuda Dramatic and Music Association and the second in a private residence. Professor Sykes' program consisted mostly of American works and his adaptation of Beethoven's "33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli," a long piapo piece.
ON LEAVE of absence from the English Department for the spring term are Professor F. Cudworth Flint and Assistant Professor Henry L. Terrie. Professor Flint plans to travel in Greece, Italy and Holland. Professor Terrie will work at the Yale Library in New Haven, where he plans to do research for a book on Henry James. Also on leave for the spring term is Professor of Economics William A. Carter '20, who plans to travel in South America, particularly Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru.
JAMES F. Ross, Assistant Professor of Religion and chairman of that Department, resigns his post at Dartmouth this spring to join the faculty of Drew Theological Seminary in Madison, Wisconsin, where he will be Assistant Professor in the Department of Old Testament Studies. Also resigning in the spring are two members of the Sociology Department, Assistant Professor Joseph Berger, who will take a post at Stanford University, and Instructor Ivan A. Vallier, who will become Assistant Professor of Sociology at Columbia.
THE long and valued services of Stephan J. Schlossmacher, Professor of German, were terminated by his untimely death last month. News of his passing is reported elsewhere in this issue, but we want to take this occasion to pay tribute to the dedication and achievements of a teacher warmly remembered by generations of Dartmouth men.
Elmer Harp Jr., Professor of Anthropology, who as a Fulbright Scholar will spend next year in Denmark studying Eskimo culture.
