Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1918-05-03
FACULTY PLANS
FOR THE SUMMER
Professors Have Patriotic
Service in View
Prof, FOye to Leave For Wesleyan
Coach Murch in War Work


members who have come to any decision
on their plans, and It is surprising oI
rather il isn't at all surprising-tha
almost all OF them will seek to help II
some way to help win the war, there
being particular enthusiasm for thu
boosting OF the food production,
The notes, as roughly gathered;
Coach A. Murch has signed up TO sc
10 one OF the army environments a'
physical instructor for the Y M, {, A
He has not yet been assigned TO any
particular camp, and will probably first
visit his home at Roxbury, Mass, and
there await his orders,
Prof. W, c. Foye, assistant PROBES.
sor OF geology, will move this summer
TO Middletown, Conn, having accepted
position for next year as assistant
professor Of geology at Wesleyan Uni
versty. Thus far this is the only lacul-
~ change announced for next year
Prof. Foye received his A. B. at Colby
in 1909, A. M, at Harvard in 1912, and
Phi, d. there in 1915, The following
year he came to Middlebury, where he
has made many friends who will regret
his leaving for new field,
President Thomas and Assistant
Dean Wiley will continue wen into the
summer in their effort to complete the
Liberty Endowment Fund Of 100000,
which must be realized by July |, Prof,
Frank w, Cady as chairman OF the Adj
mission Committee OF the College and
Prof. Raymond Mcfarland as director
of the Summer Session also have their
duties which will keep them here most
of the summer,
Prof. p. n. SWEET of the engineering
department, and who is first battalion
adjutant of the First Vermont Nolun-
teer Militia will attend the summer
muster of the militia, and will spend his
vacation days as usual at Lake Dun
more, at the same time looking after
his extensive farming interests,
Miss Jennie Bristol, registrar, will
keep office hours the greater part of the
summer, spending only short time
out of town Aside from her usual col
lege records, she will have charge OF the
keeping of the roster of MIDI men i'll
service up-to-datc,
A. X. Davis, instructor in chemistry,
will spend the week of May l3 hiking
on the Long Trail" of the Green
Mountains with Professors White and
Voter The month of June he will Wis
it at his home in Fairfield, Me, and be
in Middlebury to teach chemistry dur
ing the siX-wceks' session OF the sum
mer school
r. NJ Naylor, instructor in history,
will visit his parents in Tennessee inn
mediately after commencement His
plans for the remainder of the summer
are uncertain.
Prof L. d. Collins, Professor of Peda-
gogy, will spend the summer on his
farm in Mddlebury, doing his bit
toward increasing the food production
in lives stock and crops.
Prof ID. l.. Robinson of the French
Department, will spend the early part
of the summer in war gardening, having
rented an acre of land for his effort
The latter part of July and August he
will spend at Weld Camp at Lake Clear
in the Adirondacks, where he has been
a counselor for several years.
Prof v c, Harrington, Boardman
professor of Philosophy, after a period
of seasoning in his own garden, hopes
to find place on farm where he can
be of help in boosting the food-produc-
ton. Prof. Harrington has not put i'll
a vacation at farm work since his col
lege days and says that while he may
be little awkward at it, he is anxious
to revive something of what he knew
about it 30 years ago.
Prof Everett Skillings of the German
Department who has spent recent sum
mers at Peaks Island, Me, plans to re-
main in Mddlebury the greater part
of his vacation this year, and to have a
war garden
Laila A. Mcneil, college librarian, ex-
poets to be in town until the end of
Summer School, Aug. 10th, with the eX-
ception of the first week in July when |
she will attend the meeting of the
American Library Association at Sara
toga, From the middle Of August UNI
til the middle of September she expects
to be in St. Johnsbury.
Prof. p. c. Voter of the Chemistry |
will spend the summer do
ing research work in chemistry at Har-
ward University His family will ac-
him and live in Cambridge
Prof. L. r. Perkins, mathematics, will |
spend the summer experimenting war
gardens" and conducting nature-study
classes at the L. L. Gulick camps at
Fairlee, VT, and at Pike, N. H.
Prof. c. F. Abbott, Jermain Profess
;or of Government and Law, will prob
ably spend his summer in some sort of
war work, possibly with the Y. M. c.
A., but has not made definite plans as
Prof. L. l. Bonney mathematics, will
cave sometime next week for his old
nome in Turner, Me, to help his father
with planting, and after June 10 will
De at the Gulick Camps at Fairlee, Vt,
and Pike, N. H.
Prof. W. w. MacGilton, professor of
chemistry, will spend his vacation in
doing some gardening and
his experiments in the "frac-
ional- sterilization" method of canning.
Prof Lewis ]. Hathaway, director of
music, expects to attend the meeting of
he New England Music Teachers As
in Boston May 8 and g. and
six or eight weeks in study.
During July and August he will be at
lis old home in Montpelier where a
lumber of his former pupils are to
tudy under him.
Prof. c. B. Wright, dean, and his
q tnilU will cnend q month after conn |