Briefly Noted
Haverhill's Historic Highlights by Harold A. Davison '15, a publication of 143 pages, has been issued in conjunction with the Haverhill, New Hampshire, bicentennial observance. Bound copies are available at three dollars, those in paperback at two dollars.
A fifth edition of A Brief Introduction toBusiness by R.E. Glos and Harold A. Baker '23 (Cincinnati: South-western Publishing Co., 1963) has recently been released, containing new and extensively revised chapters.
The New American Library, in its Signet Classic Shakespeare series of paperbacks, has issued The Tragedy of King Lear, edited by Russell Fraser '47. Dedicated to the late Prof. Allan Macdonald, the volume has, in addition to a general introduction, a special introduction and textual notes by Professor Fraser, as well as other critical matter.
New Directions in Mathematics, a report on the conference of the same name held on the Dartmouth College campus in 1961, is now available in book form. The conference, during which the new Albert Bradley Center for Mathematics was dedicated, brought together leading mathematicians to analyze modern trends in their field and explored future developments in research and education.
Prentice-Hall has published the proceedings of the conference which was arranged by Prof. John G. Kemeny and Prof. Robin Robinson '24. The text was edited by Robert W. Ritchie of the University of Washington. Proceeds from the sale of the book will be added to the endowment of the Thayer Mathematics Prize at the College. The prize, believed to be the oldest prize for mathematics in this country, was established by Gen. Sylvanus Thayer, Class of 1807, founder of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and regarded as the "Father of West Point."
