THE FACULTY

MARK HOPKINS on one end of a log and a student on the other was once the formula for a liberal education. Unfortunately, there aren't many such educators and they can only be in one place at a time. But ingenuity and telecommunications can overcome some of these difficulties.

Last month Prof. Richard Eberhart '26, Poet in Residence, sat in his office in Sanborn House. This was his end of the log. The other end of the figurative log was in rooms in six Midwestern and Southern colleges. There students who have been studying his poetry were linked by telephone lines with Professor Eberhart. He lectured and answered questions about his poetry.

The tele-course lecture was one of a series on "American Life as Seen by Contemporary Writers." It is based at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo. Other participating schools were Bethune-Cook-man College in Daytona Beach, Fla.; Bishop College, Dallas, Tex.; Central Methodist College, Fayette, Mo.; Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.; and West-minster College, Fulton, Mo.

Prof. John G. Kemeny of the Mathematics Department conducted one of the first lecture-discussions of the Stephens program back in 1963. Other writers who have participated in the current course have included Robert Penn Warren, John Cheever, Philip Roth, Langston Hughes, Archibald MacLeish and William Inge.

DR. MARTIN FREUNDLICH, Assistant Professor of Microbiology at the Medical School, has won a three-year Lederle Medical Faculty Award worth $l8,OOO. He was one of eleven medical faculty members chosen nationally by an independent committee of seven prominent medical educators. The awards were established in 1954 to help support the research and teaching of outstanding medical faculty members.

ONE further note seems indicated on The Molly Maguires, the new book by Prof. Wayne G. Broehl Jr. of Tuck School. This scholarly volume describes the labor troubles in the Pennsylvania coal fields in the 1870's. These pages reported recently that it was being considered by a movie company. Now, the Sunday New York Times Book Review reports that it is being considered for an Edgar as the "best fact-crime book of the year." And it all began as a scholarly study of labor-management relations in the early days of the union movement in America.

PROF. JOHN V. NEALE, chairman of the Department of Speech, was recently elected to a three-year term as a member-at-large of the Legislative Assembly of the Speech Association of America. The association represents more than 5,000 speech teachers across the country. Professor Neale has also been appointed the New Hampshire representative on the Committee of Fifty of the Association. It is composed of representatives from each state and is charged with reporting on and making recommendations on speech education in this country.

HENRY W. EHRMANN, Joel Parker Professor of Law and Political Science, spoke at a colloquium in Paris on the government of French Premier Leon Blum (1936-37). Sponsored by the French Foundation for Political Science, the colloquium included political figures of the Third and Fourth Republics and French and foreign scholars.' A volume of the speeches will be published later.

Another Government Department member, Associate Professor Frank Smallwood '51, was chairman of a panel on "Urban Leadership at Home and Abroad" during the National Conference on Public Administration sponsored by the American Society for Public Administration in Kansas City.

Prof. Kalman Silvert spent two weeks recently at an international meeting in London sponsored by the Royal Institute of International Affairs. It concerned Latin American development and drew scholars from Europe, the United States, and Latin America. He also spoke last month at a meeting of the Committee on Foreign Relations held in Worcester, Mass.

PROF. ERNST SNAPPER of the Mathematics Department will serve as Principal Lecturer at a summer mathematics seminar at Bowdoin College. His daily lectures will deal with homological algebra, a field of increasing importance in abstract algebra, topology and other fields. It is thought to be the first seminar of its type on homological algebra in this country.

PROF. LAURENCE I. RADWAY of the Government Department and the Comparative Studies Center attended the National Conference of Civilian Aides to the Secretary of the Army at Fort Bliss recently. Professor Radway is Civilian Aide for New Hampshire.... Harry N. Scheiber, Assistant Professor of History, discussed "Government and the American Economy in the 19th Century" at a Yale University Economic History Graduate Program Seminar recently.

Two members of the Department of Biological Sciences have received National Science Foundation grants to support training programs. Prof. William T. Jackson will conduct an In-Service Institute in Biology for Secondary School Teachers in 1965-66. This brings biology teachers from New Hampshire and Vermont to Hanover for weekly lectures and discussions of new developments. Prof. Gene E. Likens will administer an Under-graduate Research Participation Program.

CHARLES F. GALLAGHER, an American University Field Staff expert on Arab society, visited the campus in April to lecture to classes and faculty seminars and to meet with teachers and students interested in Arab lands.

PROF. WILLIAM T. JACKSON of the Department of Biological Sciences has been awarded a three-year, $89,911 grant by the Department of Agriculture to investigate how herbicides and other plant-growth regulators affect plants. This is the first Agriculture Department grant to Dartmouth and among the first it has awarded to support basic research on the mechanisms of actions of these "weedkillers."

DONALD A. CAMPBELL '44, Associate Professor of History, will direct an institute in history for 40 secondary school teachers this summer at the College. The aim is to teach new approaches and materials in the study of American history. The institute faculty will include Roderick Nash, Instructor in History; Prof. Louis Morton; Prof. Harry N. Scheiber; and Robert E. Riegel, Professor of History Emeritus, all of Dartmouth. Others include Merle Curti, Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin; John R. Howe Jr., Assistant Professor of History, University of Minnesota; Delmar W. Goodwin, Coordinator, Social Studies, Hanover-Norwich Public Schools; and Bernard Bailyn, Professor of History, Harvard University.

AN imaginative program for prep school seniors at Vermont Academy, Saxtons River, Vt., has drawn heavily from the Dartmouth faculty this year. The course, patterned somewhat along the lines of Dartmouth's Great Issues, is called "Man and His World." Visiting lecturers discuss "the development of cultures, analyze the essence of civilization, and interpret man's attempts to solve problems that imperil civilization."

Dartmouth lecturers this year and their topics have been: Almon B. Ives, introductory lecture; George Z. Dimitroff, The Universe and Our Solar System; William W. Ballard, The Emergence of Lifeon Earth; Robert A. Feldmesser, TheFamily; and Paul Zeller, Music.