Hamilton College - Hamiltonian Yearbook (Clinton, NY)

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we gafflflgg XA ln the turbulent years just past, dubious distinction as the most harassed group in college has passed from the freshman class to the faculty. Since 1943 flux and uncertainty have characterized the operations of this body, long viewed as only less stable than the Root Elms themselves. Witness the statistics: of fifty-one members, but twenty-four are pre-Pearl Harbor appointees. Nor do figures portray the whole story, for time has made its demands too. A grievous loss was the death in the spring of 1946 of Dr. Edward Fitch, Professor Emeritus of Greek and for many years Dean. Metamorphosis was well under way in mid-1943, when twin deans were desig- nated to supervise academic programs, one for military personnel and one for the vanishing civilian group. One of several problems they resolved was the dove- tailing of these two schedules to avert time conflicts. The exigencies of a military program uncovered faculty versatility, so that it became no uncommon phenomenon for a physical education instructor to teach English composition competently, or for the music professor to revert from Bach to the gospel according to Beard. Although the humanities were subordinated to more directly utilitarian fields, sheer numbers kept the English department, for example, constantly occupied red- pencilling themes, while a shortage of language teachers brought women into the faculty fold for the first time in Hamilton history. ln 1944 civilian enrollment atrophied almost to the vanishing point, a situation that made for academic clover for the fortunate few and a chance for experimentation, from which the freshman English seminar and a revised history survey course resulted. The fluctuating and demanding nature of wartime conditions presaged a loss of homogeneity but be- queathed to post-war Hamilton a faculty differentiated from all that had preceded it by its cosmopolitan character. A nearly complete upheaval occurred in ad- ministration, the final step being the appointment last October of Mr. Blyth, Acting Dean of the College since July, 19114, to a position as Dean of the Faculty. Peace has 11ot vet blessed the faculty with an 'thing like its former serenit '. 1, N D 1 The onslaught of Atomic Ave enrollees, nearl ' 600 of them, has recluded res ite 5 C from a 'ear-round teaehin f calendar nor is there now an Y ros ect of abatement bl V 7 9 with another summer session in store. With neither rest nor time for research many professors may inevitably he expected to feel academically punch-drunk, even with the addition of departmental assistants to case some routine burdens. The wartime emphasis on science has now turned to a new concern with social studies, a tendency reflected in departmental shifts here. 6

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l jacuby ART KARL WITH-Professor of Arif Munich and Berlin, Ph.D., Vienna. WILLIAM CHARLES PALMER-Artist in Residenceg Art Students League of New York, Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Fontainebleau. MUSIC 1 , BERRIAN RANKIN SHUTE-Professor of M u,sic and Director of the Choir, Institute of Musical Art. JOHN LOW BALDWIN, JR.-Instructor in Music,' Associate, American Guild of Organists. PUBLIC SPEAKING WILLARD BOSTWICK MARSH-Upson Professor of Rhetoric and Oraloryg A.B. and A.M., Hamilton, A.M., Princeton. JAMES FRANKLIN HUNT-Associate Professor of Public Speakingg B.S., Pennsylvania, M.S., Massachusetts Stateg Ph.D., Yale. ROBERT ANTHONY BANKERT-Insirucior in Public Speakingg A.B., Hamilton. Bankert, Hunt, With, Marsh. - lYQl,3' i N