Briefly Noted

Tracy L. Sanborn '12 has received Masonic honors for his 60-page brochure entitled Two Centuries of Freemasonry: TheHistory of Philanthropic Lodge which he wrote to commemorate the anniversary of that body, the third oldest in Massachusetts and one of the oldest in the nation. One of the illustrations shows the old charter signed by Paul Revere, onetime Grand Master of Masons in Massachusetts. Retired advertising executive Sanborn, a 32nd Degree Mason himself, lives in Marblehead, Mass. He's also written a number of industrial booklets.

Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1860-1900 by Edward Chase Kirkland '16 has been published by Quadrangle Paperbacks of Chicago. The original edition was issued in 1956 by the Cornell University Press.

Assistant Professor of Government Franklin Smallwood '51 is the author of a monograph, Metro Toronto: A Decade Later, November 1963, 41 pp., published by the Bureau of Municipal Research, Toronto, Canada. The study, financed by a Dartmouth College Faculty Fellowship and a research grant from the Canada Council, "is designed to provide a summary appraisal of Toronto's metropolitan government at the end of its first full decade of operations." Professor Smallwood identifies and analyzes the achievements (political, service, and finnancial) and the difficulties to give those interested "a broad picture of the overall record of this first North American experiment in modern metropolitan government."