MANY APPOINTMENTS RATIFIED

At the meeting of the President and Fellows of the College on Monday, October 29, twelve resignations were accepted, eleven leaves of absence granted, and 76 appointments made.

The resignations accepted were as follows: Arthur Burkhard as Proctor and Instructor in German; Daniel Sommer Robinson as Assistant in Philosophy; Orin Renwick Douthett as Austin Teaching Fellow in Chemistry; Charles Joseph Smith as Assistant in Operative Dentistry; Beth Vincent and Mark Hunking Wentworth as Assistants in Surgery; Richard Henry Miller as Assistant in Surgery and Anatomy; Walter Brackett Lancaster as Associate in Ophthalmology; Karlton Goodsell Percy as Assistant in Pediatrics; Goodwin LeBaron Foster as Assistant in Biological Chemistry; Arthur Brewster Emmons as Director for Appointments for Medical Alumni; Thomas Henry Clark as Assistant in Geology.

Leaves of absence for the year were granted to Professors Harvey Cushing and Eugene Wambaugh, Assistant Professors Hugh Cabot, Percy W. Bridgman, and H. V. Hubbard, Assistant Librarian W. B. Briggs, Instructors James Stone and Channing Frothingham, and Dr. William H. Robey, Jr., and for the remainder of the year to Archivist Thomas P. Martin and Assistant John Bryant.

Twenty-seven assistants were appointed as follows: Lawrence Rich Grose in Forestry; Walter William Spencer Cook in Fine Arts; Charles Grover Smith in Physics; William Edward Masterson in Public Speaking; Philip Francis Weatherill and Albert Howard Bump in Chemistry; Emmett Kirkendall Carver as assistant to the Director of the Gibbs Laboratory; Fred Lemuel Ham in Economics; Victor Fritz Lenzen and Ralph Mason Blake in Philosophy; Somers Fraser and Conrad Jacobson in Surgery; Warren Richards Sisson in Pediatrics; Martin Joseph English in Medicine; Robert Jay Cook and Lloyd Thornton Brown in Orthopedic Surgery; Frederick Leo Good in Gynaecology; Delos Judson Bristol, Jr., in Obstetrics; William Edwards Ladd in Surgery; Torr Wagner Harmer, Andre William Reggio, James Murray Gallison, and Edward Hammond Risley in Surgery; Horace Kennedy Sowles; Alumni Assistant in Surgery; George Gilbert Smith, Edward Lorraine Young, and Otto John Hermann in GenitoUrinary Surgery.

The following appointments were also made: R. H. Trott as Proctor; H. Gilman as Proctor and Assistant in Chemistry; Harold Ernst Burtt as Instructor in Psychology; James Washington Bell as Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics; William Carter Quinby as Director of the Laboratory of Surgical Research; Alfred Willson Bosworth as Research Fellow in Pediatrics; Andrew Watson Sellards as Associate in Tropical Medicine; Arthur Fisher Whittem as Acting Director of the Summer School; Benjamin Harrison Ragle as Research Fellow in Tropical Medicine.

The following were appointed as Austin Teaching Fellows: Walter Cecil Schumb in Chemistry; Roscoe Copeland Morris in Physiology; and James Percy Baumberger in Zoology.

The following appointments were also made:

Instructors in Mechanical Engineering: Robert Henry Smith, James Richard Lambirth, Jeremiah Francis O'Neill, Addison Francis Holmes, Myron Wilkinson Dole, Charles Everett Littlefield, Roy Gibson Burnham, Irving Henry Cowdrey, Jesse Jennings Eames, Ralph Guy Adams, Francis Alden Brown, William Henry Jones, Kenneth Caleb Robinson, DeWitt McClure Taylor, Dean Peabody, Jr., Arthur Brown English, Charles Baldwin Sawyer.

Instructors in Electrical Engineering: Chester Laurens Dawes, Nathaniel Sidney Marston, Claire William Ricker, William Thomas Haines.

Instructor in Civil Engineering: John Brazer Babcock.

Assistants in Mechanical Engineering: Harry Garfield Davies, Harry Manford Mosher, Herbert Colvin Parker, Alfred John Ferretti, Paul Hatch, John Aleck Lunn, Chester Arthur Rogers