News and Notes

• DOI: 10.1177/106591294900200466
• Published date: 01 December 1949
• Date: 01 December 1949
• Subject Matter: Articles

683

NEWS

AND

NOTES

Dr.

A.

P.

Cagle,

having

served

as

city

manager

of

Waco,

Texas,

has

resumed

his

duties

as

chairman

of

the

department

of

political

science

at

Baylor

University.

Professor

Gerald

Fielder,

formerly

of

Vanderbilt

Uni-

versity,

has

joined

the

department

to

teach

courses

in

foreign

affairs.

Pro-

fessor

R.

T.

Miller

is

on

leave

completing

the

work

for

his

doctorate

at

the

University

of

Texas.

After

many

years

of

service

and

short

retirement

from

Brigham

Young

University

with

the

rank

of

dean

emeritus

of

the

graduate

school

and

professor

emeritus

of

history

and

political

science,

Dr.

Christen

Jensen

has

returned

to

this

university

as

acting

president.

The

department

of

political

science

of

the

University

of

California

reports,

with

deep

regret,

the

sudden

death

on

October

9

of

Professor

Raymond

Garfield

Gettell,

and

the

death

of

Mr.

L.

Deming

Tilton,

lec-

turer

in

political

science

in

the

field

of

planning

and

former

director

of

planning

for

the

city

and

county

of

San

Francisco

and

member

of

the

State

Planning

Board.

Professor

Hans

Kelsen,

of

the

University

of

California,

at

the

invita-

tion

of

the

law

faculty

of

the

University

of

Buenos

Aires,

the

Colegio

de

Abogados

of

the

University

of

La

Platte,

the

University

of

Montevideo,

the

Minister

of

Foreign

Affairs

and

the

Ministry

of

Instruction

of

Brazil,

and

the

Brazilian

Society

of

International

Law,

delivered

a

number

of

lec- ’

tures

during

the

past

summer

period.

The

series

of

four

lectures

on

&dquo;Prob-

lems

of

the

Pure

Theory

of

Law,&dquo;

given

at

the

University

of

Buenos

Aires

before

the

law

faculty,

are

to

be

published

in

French

and

Spanish.

Dur-

ing

his

visit

to

Buenos

Aires,

a

published

bibliography

of

Professor

Kelsen’s

complete

works

was

issued

in

his

honor.

Mr.

Laurence

Sears,

of

Mills

College,

is

serving

as

visiting

professor

of

political

science

at

the

University

of

California

during

the

current

aca-

demic

year,

offering

work

in

recent

American

political

thought

during

the

sabbatical

leave

of

Professor

Harold

Winkler.

Mr.

T.

Arthur

Bisson

has

returned

to

the

University

of

California

to

offer

graduate

work

on

the

occupation

of

Japan

and

to

continue

his

research

in

this

same

area.

Mr.

Victor

Rosenblum

has

been

appointed

lecturer

in

political

science

for

the

1949-50

academic

year

to

participate

in

the

work

of

the

introductory

course,

and

to

carry on,

for

the

fall

semester,

Professor

Gettell’s

under-

graduate

work

on

the

theory

of

the

state.

Mr.

Thornton

A.

Anderson

has

been

appointed

lecturer

in

political

science

to

continue

Professor

Gettell’s

course

on

the

history

of

political

thought

for

the

remainder

of

the

sem-

ester.