Eleven Professors to Retire

An unusually large number of faculty retirements this month - eleven men whose years of service to Dartmouth College total 397 - will deprive the active teaching staff of that many outstanding members. Two retirements are occurring in each of the fields of economics, English, French, and physical education; one each in chemistry, history, and sociology.

STEARNS MORSE, Professor of English and former Dean of Freshmen, came to Dartmouth in, 1923 as instructor after heading the English department at the Morristown (N. J.) School. Graduate of Harvard in 1915, he took his master's degree there the next year and then was with the NewRepublic and Little, Brown and Co. At Dartmouth, where American fiction has been his specialty, he became assistant professor in 1923 and full professor in 1936, when he received Dartmouth's honorary M.A. degree. For ten years, 1946-56, he also served as Dean of Freshmen. Professor Morse is co-author of The Book of the White Mountains and has written for a variety of magazines. In 1936 he was candidate for the U. S. Senate on the Farmer-Labor ticket.

CHARLES R. BAGLEY, Edward Tuck Professor of the French Language and Literature, taught at Swarthmore and Columbia before coming to Dartmouth as Visiting Professor in 1930. He was named full professor here in 1932 and Edward Tuck Professor in 1946. Professor Bagley took his A.B. and A.M. degrees at Trinity College, now Duke, and from 1919 to 1933 was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford, where he took honors and later returned for an M.A. in 1932. He was invited to be Visiting Professor at Oxford in 1945-46, and was decorated by the French Government in 1948 for his services as teacher. Professor Bagley has written an introduction to French literature and two other books dealing with famous men and women of France.

BRUCE W. KNIGHT, Professor of Economics, has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1924 and a full professor since 1935. He has taught courses dealing with economic principles and the economics of international peace. Professor Knight received his B.S. degree from the University of Utah in 1921 and taught at the Universities of Michigan and Wisconsin before coming to Dartmouth. He is the author of several books in the field of economics: How toRun a War, Economic Principles in Practice and Economics:an Introductory Analysis of the Level, Composition andDistribution of Economic Income, the last of which he wrote with Prof. L. G. Hines of Dartmouth. Professor Knight was awarded an honorary M.A. degree by Dartmouth in 1935.

RALPH P. HOLBEN, Professor of Sociology, has specialized in the fields of criminology and social maladjustment. He received his A.B. from Franklin and Marshall in 1913; a master's degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1914 and a Ph.D. from Pennsylvania in 1923. He came to Dartmouth in 1921 and was promoted to assistant professor in 1923 and full professor in 1935, receiving an honorary M.A. that year. Besides writing articles and reviews, Professor Holben is co-author of two books on the fundamentals of social science.

FLETCHER LOW '15, Professor of Chemistry, has been a member of the Dartmouth faculty since 1917. As a chemistry professor he has specialized in teaching qualitative and quantitative analysis. He joined the faculty as an instructor, was made an assistant professor in 1924 and a full professor in 1934. Professor Low was granted a masters degree by Columbia University in 1917 and a Ph.D. by the. same university in 1927. Before turning to teaching he played professional baseball with the Boston Braves. He is currently chairman of the Hanover Board of Selectmen, a position he has held for several years.

DEORMOND MCLAUGHRY, Professor of Physical Education and Associate Director of Athletics, began his career at Dartmouth in 1941 as head football coach. Educated at Westminster College where he received his B.S. degree in 1915 and at Northeastern University where he was granted an LL.B. degree in 1932, "Tuss" McLaughry began his coaching career at Westminster in 1915. He also coached at Amherst and Brown before coming to Dartmouth. Upon retiring as head coach in 1955, he was granted a full professorship. Professor McLaughry has served as president and executive secretary-treasurer of the American Football Coaches Association.

WARREN E. MONTSIE '15, Professor of French, remained at Dartmouth as Teaching Scholar after his graduation from Dartmouth in 1915 and became Instructor in German in 1916. He began to teach French also in 1920, and three years later gave full time to that subject, in which he became assistant professor in 1925 and full professor in 1941. His courses have been in conversation and composition as well as French literature. Professor Montsie pursued graduate studies at Harvard and the Université de Caen and received an M.A. from Dartmouth in 1925.

JAMES DOW MCCALLUM, Winkley Professor of the AngloSaxon and English Language and Literature, retires after 39 years as a member of the Dartmouth English Department. He was granted the Winkley Professorship earlier this year. Professor McCallum is a specialist in early Victorian literature and is general editor of a six-volume anthology containing his translation of Beowulf and other Anglo-Saxon poems. He received his A.B. degree from Columbia in 1914 and his M.A. the next year. Professor McCallum taught English at the University of Kansas and Princeton, where he received his Ph.D. in 1921, before coming to Dartmouth. He has also written a biography of Eleazar Wheelock and edited several other books.

W. RANDALL WATERMAN, Professor of History, has specialized in the social history of the United States since coming to Dartmouth in 1981 as an instructor. In 1924 he was raised to an assistant professor and in 1930 to full professor. He is the author of Frances Wright, published in 1924, and has written several sketches for the Dictionary ofAmerican Biography. Professor Waterman has also contributed several book reviews to historical reviews. He was educated at Brown University, where he received a Ph.B. degree in 1915 and an M.A. degree in 1916, and at Columbia University, where he was granted a Ph.D. in 1924. He holds an honorary M.A. from Dartmouth, awarded in 1930.

EARL R. SIKES, Professor of Economics, came to Dartmouth as assistant professor in 1922 after teaching at Cornell. Elevated to full professor in 1928, he has specialized in comparative economic systems and is the author of a wellknown volume in this field, Contemporary EconomicSystems. Professor Sikes was graduated from Trinity College, now Duke, in 1915, and received his M.A. from Pennsylvania in 1918 and his Ph.D. from Cornell in 1926. A Dartmouth M.A. was awarded him in 1928. He is presently chairman of the Council Advisory to the Tucker Foundation and also a member of the interdepartmental staff teaching Russian Civilization.

HAROLD M. EVANS, Assistant Professor of Physical Education, coached the freshman basketball team for 18 . years, the final season being 1954. During that time his teams compiled a record of 146 wins and 22 losses. He came to Dartmouth as instructor in 1928 and became an assistant professor in 1940. A graduate of Springfield College in 1922, he coached at Brown and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before coming to Dartmouth.