Harold L. Bond

HAROLD L. BOND '42, Professor of English and chairman of the English Department, is an authority on Edward Gibbon, author of The Declineand Fall of the Roman Empire. He has written one book on this subject, TheLiterary Art of Edward Gibbon, and received a Faculty Fellowship in 1961-62 to travel to England to prepare a critical biography of Gibbon.

Among his other writings, a book of war memoirs, Return to Cassino, was published in America and England in 1964-65, and translated into Italian in 1965. Return to Cassino is now in its second printing and has been issued in paperback.

Professor Bond teaches courses in English Renaissance and Romantic Poetry. He has been a member of the Committee on Educational Policy, the Executive Committee of the Faculty, the Executive Committee of the Humanities Division, and for a number of years was chairman of the Committee on Graduate Fellowships. He also represents the faculty on the Alumni Council. He has taught at Alumni College since it was established, and is now its dean of faculty, responsible for all curriculum planning.

Professor Bond received his M.A. degree from Harvard University in 1949 and his doctorate there in 1955. He taught at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Wellesley College and has been at Dartmouth since 1952. He became a full professor in 1961.