CHARLES PELHAM CURTIS '14 ELECTED HARVARD FELLOW

Charles Pelham Curtis Jr. '14 of Boston has been elected a Fellow of Harvard College in the place of Thomas Nelson Perkins '91, who recently resigned in order to work with the Reparations Commission in Europe, it was announced late yesterday by the Corporation.

In addition to succeeding Mr. Perkina in office. Mr. Curtis succeeds him as the youngest Fellow ever to be elected. Mr. Curtis has had the honor bestowed upon him but ten years after graduation, while Mr. Perkins was not elected until he had been out 14 years.

Corporation Numbers Seven Men

Since 1650 the Corporation of which Mr. Curtis now becomes a member, has been entrusted with the government of the University and the handling of the funds. The Corporation is composed of the President, Treasurer, and five Fellows of the College. It is self-perpetuating and responsible to the Board of Overseers, who are elected by the alumni of the University.

The other members besides President Lowell are the Treasurer, Charles Francis Adams '88, elected in 1898, Dr. Henry P. Walcott '58, elected in 1890, Bishop William Lawrence '71, elected in 1913, John F. Moors '83, elected in 1918, and James Byrne '77, elected in 1920.

Was Member of Phi Beta Kappa

Mr. Curtis was born in 1891. He completed his college course in three years, spent one year at the university as a graduate student, and then entered the Law School, receiving his degree in 1917. While an undergraduate he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. Senior class poet, and on the Student Council. In the Law School he was on the staff of the Law Review and at graduation stood very high in a unusually large class. He served in the navy throughout the war as Eusign and later as Lieutenant, Junior grade, when he was overseas with the destroyer "Duncan."

After the war he went into general law practice with Choate, Hall and Stewart. He is now practicing with his brother. From 1917 to 1919 he was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention and he has also been United States assistant district attorney.