SEVEN Dartmouth professors will be on leave for the spring term. Professor of Chemistry John P. Amsden '20 plans to visit Cambridge University to become acquainted with the work being done there in analytical and physical chemitry. Professor James F. Cusick of the Economics Department and Professor John Hurd '21 of the English Department will both travel in Europe, Professor Cusick to Greece, Italy, France and England, Professor Hurd to Spain, Italy, Germany, France and England. Professor Robert E. Riegel of the History Department will participate in the Annual Conference of Mississippi Valley Historians at Louisyille, Kentucky. Professor Edward J. Green of the Psychology Department will remain in Hanover to work on a book dealing with visual discrimination learning. Also on leave will be Professor James L. Scott of the German Department. Professor of Philosophy T.S.K. Scott-Craig will travel to Italy where he plans to write a chapter on Dante for his book tentatively called More PhilosophicalPoets.
EAY NASH, Lecturer in Art, has been named Director of Dartmouth Publications by President Dickey. Professor Nash has been acting director since the death of Professor William H. McCarter '19 in July 1959. As director, his responsibilities will include supervision of the publishing of the College Bulletin Series, the College Directory, and occasional publications relating to the history of the College or the region. Professor Nash has written numerous books and articles on prints, printing, and bibliography, and he is an editor of Print, a quarterly journal of the graphic arts. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 1956 was awarded a gold medal by the American Institute of Graphic Arts in recognition of his work.
RICHARD EBERHART '26, Professor of - English and Poet in Residence, who is presently serving as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, has been reappointed to that post for the 1960-61 term by L. Quincy Mumford, Librarian of Congress. The position of Consultant in Poetry in English was established in the Library of Congress in 1936 through a gift of funds from the late Archer M. Huntington. The Consultant gives advice on improving the Library's collections of literature; recommends the purchase of new materials; assists in acquiring important manuscripts and books through authors and collectors; advises on bibliographic and reference work in his field, and confers with scholars and poets using the Library's collections and facilities. He also provides editorial supervision of the Library's program of recording 20th-century poets in readings of their own works. The Consultant customarily presents at least one public lecture in the Library of Congress during his term.
JOHN McCRARY JR., Assistant Professor of Psychology, has been awarded a Danforth Foundation Teacher Study Grant for the academic year 1960-61. Professor McCrary will spend the year at Brown University on study and research in the general field of experimental psychology, with emphasis on psychophysiology and learning. A graduate of William and Mary College, he received a Master of Science degree from Brown University. In 1954 he joined the Dartmouth faculty as a Ford Intern in College Teaching and in 1958 was appointed assistant professor. He is presently at work on a doctorate.
PROFESSOR of Astronomy George Z. Dimitroff spent three days at Brown University in late February as the University's Fourth Convocation Fellow. He spoke before Convocations at Brown and Pembroke and delivered formal addresses on the topics, "Beyond the Moon," "Can Science and Government Coexist?" and "The State of the Cosmos." A native of Bulgaria, Professor Dimitroff has taught physics and astronomy at Colorado State College, Radcliffe and Harvard. He was also Superintendent at the Harvard Observatory before coming to Dartmouth in 1946.
EUGEN ROSENSTOCK-HUESSY, Professor of Social Philosophy, Emeritus, has been awarded the Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit by the Federal Republic of Germany. The German Consul in Boston, Dr. Guenther C. Motz, cited the many services of Professor Rosenstock-Huessy in promoting understanding among peoples of the world. Dr. Motz said his many writings, both while in Germany and after his emigration to the United States, established him as an important international writer in the fields of law, theology, sociology and economics.
DR. SHINYA INOUE, chairman of the Department of Cytology at the Dartmouth Medical School, last month delivered a scientific paper on cell division at the New York Academy of Science's conference on this subject. On March 7, Dr. Inoue was interviewed on the Dave Garroway show in New York, and included were movies of cell division taken through the polarizing microscope designed by Dr. Inoue.