PROFESSOR R. M. GAY PRAISED BY LOWES FOR PAST RECORD

"The University is extremely fortunate in securing the services of Professor Robert Malcolm Gay to meet the emergency created by Professor Copeland's temporary withdrawal from English 5," said Professor J. L. Lowes yesterday in a statement to the CRIMSON.

"Professor Robert M. Gay is a graduate of Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute, 1900, an A.M. of Columbia, 1901, and in 1913 he received the honorary degree of Litt. D. from Dickinson College. He has been Associate Professor and Professor of English at Goucher College in Baltimore, and since 1918 has been Professor of English and Chairman of the Department at Simmons College. Since 1922 he has also been Dean of the Graduate Division at Simmons, and he has been lecturer at Johns Hopkins and Boston University.

"He is the author of "Writing Through Reading," a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject which he is teaching here, and of a volume entitled, "Fact, Fancy, and Opinion."

This course in composition, one of the oldest in the Harvard curriculum, reached the height of its fame under Dean Briggs. A short time ago it was turned over by him to Professor C. T. Copeland, '82, who has in turn given it over temporarily to Professor Gay. After this year it will return under the direction of Professor Copeland.