Briefly Noted

Irving E. Bender, Professor of Psychology Emeritus, has been making intensive psychological studies of the Class of 1940 from their senior year to the present and publishing articles about their intellectual and spiritual values. Now in the Journal for theScientific Study of Religion, volume VII, 2, 1968, appears "A Longitudinal Study of Church Attenders and Nonattenders" involving 96 graduates of 1940, which raises the question whether there are profound differences between the 59 who go to church and the 37 who do not. The nonattenders evince greater creativeness, incline to the professions as a career, and are less likely to vote Republican, but the two groups show no meaningful differences in "self-development," "value energy," and "personality structure." Only 16 percent are considered to be animated by a religious impulse, but, proportionately, just as many nonattenders are religious. The average number of books read yearly by the attenders is 19; for nonattenders, 25. The two groups show marked differences in literary tastes. Attenders read Winston Churchill, Allen Drury, Will Durant, John Gunther, J. Evitts Haley, Mary McCarthy, James Mitchener, Louis Nizer, John O'Hara, Katherine Anne Porter, William Shirer, Nevil Shute, and Irving Stone. Nonattenders read James Baldwin, Saul Bellow, Albert Camus, Tilhard de Chardin, Laurence Durrell, Maurice Friedman, Frank Harris, Franz Kafka, Henry Miller, Ayn Rand, J. D. Salinger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Leon Uris, and Alfred Whitehead. Now sending out further questionnaires to the Class of 1940, Professor Bender hopes to be publishing articles about them up to their 50th reunion when he himself will have reached a venerable age. Born August 27, 1893, he will be 96.

How Dartmouth undergraduates contribute to learning by doing more than sitting supinely in the classroom taking notes to insure high grades on examinations may be seen by the acknowledgement in a new book, The Old Northwest, Studies in Regional History, 1789-1910. Its editor, Professor Harry N. Scheiber, Department of History, writes in his "Acknowledgements" that students in his seminars on the West "played a major role in working out the themes of community-building and community development." The book is divided into seven sections (Pioneer Period: Early Institutions and Problems, Travails and Hopes- Social Life, The Land and Its Plenty, The Urban Dimension, The People - Moving Government and Politics, The Tensions of Industrialism) with sixteen scholars contributing essays. Mr. Scheiber is author of "Urban Rivalry and Internal Improvements in the Old Northwest, 1820-1860." In the Preface he discusses the concept of regionalism and the frontier thesis of Frederick Jackson Turner as each bears on the old Northwest States (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin). Published by the University of Nebraska Press, the book runs to 395 pages and costs $3.25 in paperback and $7.95 in cloth.

Arts in the City, Organizing and Programming Community Arts Councils, a 15page paperback by Ralph Burgard '49, published by the Associated Councils of the Arts, 1564 Broadway, New York, is a handbook for arts councils organizing at town, city, county, and regional (multi-county) levels. It covers the principal areas of council activity to date: cooperative promotions to develop larger audiences, art centers, and united fund campaigns. The material is largely relevant to privately incorporated councils, the members of which often include other local arts institutions rather than publicly appointed municipal and county arts commissions. The author hopes that councils will become the architects of comprehensive arts programs affecting all aspects of urban life and that they may act as catalysts for interactions among artists, art institutions, local governments, universities, and state or federal agencies. Supported through membership dues and con- tributions from individuals, corporations, and foundations, the Associated Councils of the Arts, of which Mr. Burgard is Executive Director, is a privately incorporated national non-profit organization founded in 1960 to advise arts councils, commissions, and other cooperative arts orgnizations at all levels.

Born 1775 in a Cornish, N. H., family, five of whose 15 children went to Dartmouth, Philander Chase, Class of 1795, founder and first president of both Kenyon College and Jubilee College, assumes an important position in a booklet, Bishopsof Ohio 1819-1968, Protestant EpiscopalChurch, Diocese of Ohio by Wallace J. Baker. The 15-page essay about Chase with his picture is the first biography because he was the first bishop of Ohio 1819-1831. The booklet is printed by the Painesville Publishing Company, Painesville, Ohio.

Future Goals of Engineering in Biologyand Medicine, a summary of the proceedings of an international conference held in Washington, D. C., September 1967, is edited by James F. Dickson III '45 and J. H. U. Brown. The conference focused on the applications of the principles and practices of engineering science to biomedical research and the delivery of health services. Forty-three contributors (1) assess the inction between engineering science and biomedicine. (2) identify unique opportunities and obstacles to their realization, (3) produce guidelines for implementation in these areas, (4) discuss means for broadening the scientific base of this interaction, (5) predict greater multidisciplinary teamwork, and (6) consider the implications of a far deeper impact of engineering on biomedical sciences in the immediate future. Published by the Academic Press, the book costing $16 contains 361 pages and 37 figures and illustrations.

William E. Slesnick, Associate Professor 0f Mathematics at Dartmouth College, has collaborated with Richard E. Johnson (University of New Hampshire), Lona Lee Hendsey (Oak Park and River Forest High School, Illinois), and Grace E. Bates (Mount Holyoke College) in three algebra textbooks On the title page of all three, Dartmouth is spelled Darthmouth. A long way from Hanover, the publisher is the Cummings Publishing Company of Menlo Park, California. In College Algebra, the authors assume that students are acquainted with the language of algebra, have an understanding of "the structure of number systems, and have acquired some dexterity in the manipulation of algebraic expressions. The treatment of algebra and the introduction of such topics as probability, induction, vectors, and logic, designed to provide a foundation for work in more advanced courses, are also intended to develop an awareness and appreciation for mathematics and mathematical reasoning. Covering much the same material in identical language, College Algebra and Elementary Functions contains chapters on the Elements of Trigonometry, Topics in Trigonometry, and a Table of Trigonometric Functions. A paperback Instructors' Guide may be used with both volumes.

ANOTHER TRY: Identification of theDartmouth Board of Trustees, on thecover of the May issue, omitted the nameof Thomas B. Curtis '32 and thus madethe sequence partly wrong. Clockwisefrom the left are: Governor Walter R.Peterson '47, Thomas W. Braden '40,William E. Buchanan '24, Robert S. Oelman '31, President Dickey, Dudley W.Orr '29, Dr. Ralph W. Hunter '31, Rupert C. Thompson '28, Ralph Lazarus'35, F. William Andres '29, John D.Dodd '22, Thomas B. Curtis '32, LloydD. Brace '25, Charles J. Zimmerman '23,Frank L. Harrington '24, and Harrison F.Dunning '30.