The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 41, July 1937 - April, 1938 Page: 180
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papers in the American Antiquarian Society. He will continue
this work at Washington in the Library of Congress and in the
State Department. This work is done under a project awarded to
Dr. Charles W. Ramsdell, by the Bureau of Research in the Social
Sciences of the University of Texas.
Dr. H. B. Carroll taught during the past year and summer at
the West Texas State Teachers College at Canyon. He has been
made head of the Social Sciences at the State College at Portales,
New Mexico. Dr. Carroll's work on the route of the Texan Santa
Fe Expedition is outstanding and must take rank with the labors
of the scholars who have charted the routes of Coronado, Cabeza
de Vaca, and DeSoto. Though the Texans' expedition was much
later than those of the Spaniards, the records were meager, and
the investigator had to establish the camp sites and trails largely
by circumstantial evidence and topographical features. Dr. Carroll
actually found the place where the wagons were burned at the
base of the Caprock, and uncovered such remains as a wagon
thimble and a broken wrench. It is supposed that the cowboys
had carried off the tires and other iron parts to have them made
into horseshoes. A study of the route of the Texan Santa Fe
Expedition will be published by Dr. Carroll in cooperation with
the distinguished ethnologist, Dr. F. W. Hodge.
Dr. Ralph Parker, assistant librarian at the University of
Texas, has been appointed librarian of Pomona College in Cali-
fornia. Dr. Parker has attracted much attention by working out
an adaptation of machines for compiling statistics to library work.
The International Business Machine Corporation offered him a
position, which he declined for the reason that he prefers library
work.
"Best of all are the historians," says The New York Times of
September 5. Dr. Hadley Cantril, psychologist of Princeton Uni-
versity, circulated a questionnaire to seventy groups of experts
asking them to make predictions on future American and world
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