Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1926-08-12
Bowdoin's Guides
Changes in Staff

49, AAio VIM ~hCb august IL
Among the additions to the Bowdoin
faculty recently announced by Presi-
dent Stills is the name of Command
er Donald B. Macmillan of the class
OF 1898, now in Greenland in COM
mand OF the Rawson- Field Museum
Expedition in search of Morse ruins.
Commander Macmillan will again
take the place which he held for
some years on the Bowdoin faculty as
professor of Ethnography, with
leave of absence in the field.
Eight other men have been added
to the Bowdoin teaching staff for
next year. They have been drawn
from wide range of localities. one
coming from South Africa, one from
Germany, one from California, one
from Iowa. one from North Carolina.
one from New York, and one from
MaSSa chuSetts
To take the place of Professor Ma
son of the Philosophy department,
who will be absent in Germany the
frst semester, Professor r. f. A.
Hoernle of the University of Witwa-
tersrand, johannesburg, South Afri-
ca will come as lecturer in Philoso-
ply. DR.. Hoernle is a distinguishes
philosopher who was, before return
ing to his native South Africa. p
member of the Harvard faculty. He
is graduate of oxford.
For the first time since before the
war Bowdoin will have on its fac
uity native German in the person
OF Or. Detlev Schumann, who comes
from Hamburg as instructor in Ger
man. DR.. Schumann has lived a
great deal in England, as his mother
is English. and he speaks English as
Wen as his native tongue
howard X. Beal, a graduate of
the University of Chicago and for
merry a member of the faculty at
urlnnell College, Iowa, will be added
" the faculty as instructor in Histo-
ry and Government. He has been
DONG graduate work at Harvard
ana has studied in Europe under a
travelling Fellowship.
waiter Z. Beach has been an
pointed instructor in Economics. Mr..
beach is graduate Of the I-niver-
sity OF California and has been doing
sraouate work for his doctors de-
gree at Harvard.
Wlliiam II. Cary. Jr., a graduate
ol harvard in the class of 1921. has
oeeh IN me publishing business and
nas travelled extensively abroad. go
s around the world after two years
Oh war service. He has been an
pointed instructor in English.
eugene Armfield. appointed in.
strQctor in French, is grad.
uate OF the University of North
carolina in the class of 1925. He has
oeen' during the past year. a Cnivars
sity scholar at Harvard.
announcer addition to the French ia
partment is j. NJ. Drucker, a grad
uate or the University of Paris who
Fellow. AeaciilnS
Nathaniel c. Kendrick. who bas
oeen appointed instructor in Histar,.
graduate of the University of
I ,o"a IN the class of 1921. In
~. 10 1925 he was a graduate SIN
uent at Harvard and assistant in HE
Tory. Last year he spent abroad N
I;ondon. Paris, and Venice on a Trav-
eiiing Fellowship from Harvard.
a number of the regular menbers
OF the Bowdoin faculty will he ~
IeaVe OF absence next year: Profes
sor s'hllfps Mason during the A.
semester, Professors Orren q Tor
men and Daniel c. Stanwood durins
the second semester. and ProfessnrI
year. the
Assistant Professors Noel r. 1i+n.
ana Thomas Means have been raised
10 full professor and Arthur C. GILL;
gan has been raised from the rank
or instructor to the rank of assista Mt
professor of Romance Languages.