Chalmers to Take Semester Off To Study in British Laboratories

Master Bruce Chalmers of Winthrop House will take a one-semester leave of absence this January to write and conduct research as an Overseer's Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge. The College has not yet announced an acting master for the spring term.

Chalmers, who is known as a proponent of more lenient parietal regulations, has also been the primary supporter of the concept of House education. He has encouraged Winthrop House tutors to set up two General Education Courses, SocSci 9 and Hum 10, and he himself teaches a seminar on energy, Nat Sci 1. which will not be offered this year.

The Winthrop master, whose specialty is metallurgy, will spend most of the spring at Cambridge University, and then will visit other British universities.