THE FACULTY
PROFESSOR John G. Kemeny of the Department of Mathematics recently delivered the ninth annual Matchette Foundation Lectures in Philosophy at Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, N. Y. In two lectures Professor Kemeny discussed "Mathematics, Science and Ethics." The lectures, are endowed by the Franklin J. Matchette Foundation which was established to stimulate interest in philosophy and its relation to politics, religion, economics, and moral and human behavior.
Professor Kemeny, a native of Hungary, received bachelor and doctoral degrees at Princeton. He was an assistant in the theoretical division of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in World War II and a chief assistant to Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1948-49. He taught mathematics and philosophy at Princeton before coming to Dartmouth in 1953 at age 27 to be a full professor. He has been Department chairman since 1955. He is consulting editor of The Journal.. of Symbolic Logic and has written several books, including APhilosopher Looks at Science, and numerous articles for professional journals.
PROFESSOR Matthew I. Wiencke of the Classics Department gave a series of lectures recently at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Lehigh University. The lectures were sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America. He spoke on "The Parthenon in the 18th Century," "Masters of the Parthenon Frieze," and "The Parthenon, Present and Past." Before joining the faculty last fall, Professor Wiencke was engaged in research at the British Museum and the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. He was a member of the team which excavated the temple of Poseidon at the Isthmus of Corinth, and has taught archaeology at Yale and the University of Missouri.
At the invitation of the Society for American Archaeology Professor Robert McKennan of the Sociology Department react -a paper prepared by his colleague Professor Elmer Harp, currently in Copenhagen on a Fulbright Fellowship, summarizing the results of their archaeological reconnaissance of the Canadian Barren Grounds in the summer of 1958. The symposium, which was held at Yale on May 5, centered on the archaeological relationships between the Far North and the Temperate Zone. Fifteen anthropologists from Canada, Denmark, and the United States participated in this cooperative effort to bring together and interpret the most recent developments in the archaeology of the North.
ELIAS L. RIVERS, Associate Professor of Spanish, recently attended, as a guest member, the fifth annual meeting of the College Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland, held this year at King's College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. He also gave a lecture at University College, Cardiff, Concerning his research on Renaissance sonnets in Spain and Portugal. Professor Rivers, with the financial aid of a Guggenheim Fellowship, is now spending his first sabbatical year working in the Biblioteca Nacional in Madrid and the British Museum in London.
AT the annual meeting of the Vermont A Psychological Association held recently at the University of Vermont, the featured speaker was Professor Albert Hastorf, chairman of the Dartmouth Psychology Department.
DR. NORMAN FEATHER, Professor of Natural Philosophy at Edinburgh University and an authority on nuclear physics, served recently as Visiting Lecturer at the College. He visited the campus under the auspices of the American Association of Physics Teachers and the American Institute of Physics as part of a broad, nationwide program to stimulate interest in physics. The National Science Foundation is supporting the program. The visiting scientist lectured, took part in colloquia, talked informally with the physics staff and students about teaching and research in his country, and visited nearby colleges and secondary schools to learn about varied conditions under which physics is taught in the United States.
A graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a recipient of the Ph.D. degree in 1930 from the University of London, Dr. Feather has taught at Cambridge University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Liverpool. He is a Fellow of both the Royal Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Professor Francis Sears, chairman of Dartmouth's Physics Department, and past president of the American Association of Physics Teachers, was in charge of arrangements for Dr. Feather's visit.
THREE new men will join the staff of the History Department next fall. They are Professor Louis Morton, Instructor Roger H. Brown and Instructor Harry N. Scheiber.
Professor Morton was educated at N.Y.U. and Duke, where he took his Ph.D. degree in 1938. Prior to World War II he taught at City College of New York and was research assistant at colonial Williamsburg. After the war, in which he served with the Army in the Pacific, he became deputy chief historian, with the rank of Lt, Colonel, in the Army Office of Military History. In 1959 he was appointed professor of history at the University of Wisconsin and comes to the College from there. An expert on military history, Professor Morton has lectured at the National War College, the Naval Academy, the Army War College, Ohio State University and other institutions. He is the author of several books, includng The Fall of the Philippines, The Warin the Pacific, National Policy and Military Strategy. He has written many articles for national magazines such as TheReporter and also for scholarly journals, fie offers a winter term course and a seminar on military history of the United States next year.
Dr. Roger Brown has taught for the past three years at Harvard, where he received his Ph.D. degree. His specialty is the history of the 19th Century. He is the author of a book, The Struggle for theIndian Stream Territory, and has completed a second book dealing with the background of the War of 1812. He is to teach a course in the spring on the social and intellectual history of the United States from 1783-1877.
Mr. Scheiber was graduated from Columbia University and received his doctorate this year from Cornell University, where he has been teaching. He is the author of Civil Liberties in 1917-1921, published this month by the Cornell University Press. He has also published a number of articles in history quarterlies and has in progress a book entitled Internal Improvements in Ohio, 1820-60. Mr. Scheiber's primary interest is United States economic history, and he is to offer a winter term course on that subject.
PROFESSOR Henry B. Williams of the English Department, who is Director of the Experimental Theatre, arrived in Tokyo early in May to begin a two-month tour of Japan. Professor Williams is especially interested in various aspects of the Japanese theatre, including the No and Kabuki dramas of the classical repertory, and contemporary plays. His itinerary includes trips to Osaka, Kyoto, Hiroshima and Nikko. He plans to spend several days at these places, with Tokyo as his central base.
PROFESSOR Robert E. Riegel of the History Department has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for studies in the history of American feminism. Presently on leave from his teaching duties for the spring term, Professor Riegel is an authority in several areas of American history, including the growth of the railroads, the Western frontier and the American feminist movement.
"PROFESSOR Herbert W. Hill of the History Department was elected president of the New Hampshire Historical Society at a meeting in Concord recently. He succeeds William Saltonstall, headmaster of Phillips Exeter Academy. Professor Hill was vice president of the organizat! on and has been a trustee since 1935. He teaches a course in the history of New England at the College. The New Hampshire Historical Society was established in 1823, and today has more than 1,000 members throughout the country.
A PROGRAM to improve science teaching in New Hampshire's secondary schools in which a number of Dartmouth teachers have participated over the past year has received renewed support from the National Science Foundation. A grant of $6,040 has been made to the New Hampshire Academy of Science to continue the program. Professor Allen L. King of the Physics Department, president of the Academy, said the principal objectives of the program were to arrange visits by leading research scientists to high schools for class discussions and student conferences and for meetings with teachers and administrators, to bring high school and college teachers together for conferences, and to seek ways of raising the level of science teaching in the state. Last year 22 scientists from Dartmouth and the University of New Hampshire made over forty day-long visits to New Hampshire schools. Their contributions included helping individual students with projects and advising on course programs and careers, offering suggestions to principals and teachers on the purchase and use of laboratory equipment, advising on new courses and reviewing old ones.
PROFESSOR of Russian Civilization Charles B. McLane '41 has accepted a visiting professorship at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, for the coming year. On leave from Dartmouth, Professor McLane will lecture on Politics in the Far East and conduct a seminar on Russia in Asia.
MILTON GILL, organist at Dartmouth College, gave a dedicatory recital at the Congregational Church, Bradford, Vt., on Sunday, May 8. Mr. Gill, who was appointed Instructor in Music last year, graduated from Princeton in 1954. He returned there in 1956 for three more years of organ work with Carl Weinrich and composition with Roger Sessions. During that period he directed the Princeton Freshman Glee Club and served as assistant organist and choirmaster in the University Chapel. In March, Mr. Gill gave a College recital devoted to the organ works of Bach. He plans a recital of contemporary works in the fall.
Dr. Louis Morton of the University of Wisconsin, author and military historian, will become Professor of History at Dartmouth.
