THE FACULTY

AT its March meeting the faculty unanimously passed a resolution opposing the Feldman Bill which had come before the New Hampshire General Court. The bill would prohibit "subversives" from speaking in state-owned facilities such as the University of New Hampshire. The resolution said in part:

"Freedom of inquiry is an essential condition of intellectual excellence. Freedom of inquiry is also a fundamental principle of democratic institutions. The Feldman Bill flagrantly violates this principle. It substitutes censorship for freedom and knowledge. For this reason it cannot deserve the support of any person committed to the ideal of democratic education."

Previously the Executive Committee of the Faculty and the Dartmouth Chapter of the American Association of University Professors had denounced the bill and President Dickey had testified against it at an Education Committee hearing in Concord.

On March 11, by a vote of 205 to 176, the New Hampshire House of Representatives killed the bill. Support for the bill came mainly from members representing the Manchester-Nashua area.

PROF. WAYNE BROEHL of the Tuck School, whose growing involvement with a study of labor-management strife in the Pennsylvania coal fields in the 1870's was described in these pages last month, has started again. That research stretched out over five years and resulted in the recent publication of his book, TheMolly Maguires.

He is now involved in a study of the International Basic Economy Corporation and has received a new $16,000 grant from the William H. Donner Foundation. This will supplement funds already received from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Dartmouth Comparative Studies Center, which is financed by the Ford Foundation.

Professor Broehl is engaged in a three-year study of the history, development, and operations of IBEC, which was founded in 1947 by Nelson Rockefeller '30 to bring socially responsible capital to underdeveloped nations, particularly in Latin America. IBEC is now a publicly owned company headed by Donald E. Meads '42. Rodman Rockefeller '54 is a vice-president.

DEAN MYRON TRIBUS of the Thayer School was Charter Day speaker at Rockford College, Rockford, Ill., and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree. The degree citation read in part:

"Your distinguished work as teacher, writer and scientist, your creative and dynamic leadership as Dean of the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, your vigorous work on the threshold of scientific advances, and your deep conviction about the values in human society, have set for the academic and scientific community a rare example of dedication and accomplishment."

His address was entitled "Liberal Learning in the Age of the Computer." He also addressed the annual meeting of the Toledo Engineers Council on the subject, "Coming Steps in Engineering Practice and Education."

ROBERT G. TISDALE, Instructor in English, will be in charge of a special six-week institute for secondary-school teachers of English and mathematics operated in conjunction with the ABC Program this summer. The teachers will come for the most part from the schools that had students in the ABC program for disadvantaged youth. Mr. Tisdale is also an associate director of the ABC program.

PROF. H. WENTWORTH ELDREDGE '31 of the Sociology Department is currently serving on the faculty of the Salzburg Seminars in American Studies in Austria. He is one of five American professors chosen to present a seminar on Planning and Development of the UrbanCommunity. The other faculty members are Prof. John W. Reps of Cornell; Prof. Edward Ulman, Associate Dean of the Graduate School, University of Wisconsin; Dr. Henry Fagin of the University of Wisconsin, and Dr. Alan K. Campbell of Syracuse.

The Salzburg Seminars began in 1947 and were designed to help introduce American Studies programs in Europe. They were so successful that they have continued and expanded and have drawn support from several prominent foundations.

WHEN the Army built its Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory in Hanover one of the benefits to the College was expected to be the availability of some research scientists to teach courses.

One of them will be Prof. Duwayne M. Anderson, a specialist in the physics and chemistry of frozen soils. This spring he will teach a graduate course in FlowProcesses in Porous Media in the Geology Department.

PROF. ALMON B. IVES of the Speech Department has recorded the KnappWhite Summation by Daniel Webster for Voices of Literature, a series of records produced by De Paul University. Another of the voices on the record is that of Albert T. Martin, who formerly was a member of the Speech Department.

PROF. WING-TSIT CHAN has been invited to serve as a resource participant for China at the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies next summer. This will be the Institute's first seminar on Non-Western Readings.

He has also been invited to be an Associate in the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Oriental Thought and Religion.

A MUSIC professor's private collection of music and manuscripts from the English Restoration period was the nucleus of an exhibit in the Treasure Room Corridor at Baker Library. The items are from the collection of Prof. Franklin B. Zimmerman, who has been especially interested in the period and has written two books and many articles about Henry Purcell, the leading composer of that era.

ALFRED F. WHITING, Curator of An thropology at the Museum, presented a paper entitled "The American Southwest" at the 131 st Congress of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. The paper dealt with the ethnobotany of the area. ... Robert G. Chaffee '36, Curator of Geology, is a member of the Visiting Scientist Program for Northern New England. The program, established under a National Science Foundation grant, brings visiting scientists to colleges and high schools for visits and lectures. He has visited Mount St. Joseph College in Rutland twice and plans a visit to Hartford, Vt., High School.

Two grants to Dartmouth professors have recently been announced. Prof. Paul R. Shafer of the Chemistry Department has received $88,490 from the National Institutes of Health for the purchase of a nuclear resonance spectrometer for use in chemical research. The grant includes funds for modification of space in Steele Hall to house the new equipment. An $8,400 National Science Foundation grant has been awarded to the Department of Biological Sciences to continue an undergraduate research-participation program begun last summer. Gene E. Likens, Assistant Professor of Biology, is director of the departmental program. He said the money will be used over a one-year period to finance independent student research projects in environmental biology.