FAY TO LECTURE HERE NEXT YEAR

Sidney Bradshaw Fay '96, professor of European History at Smith College, will assume a position at Harvard next fall, it was learned yesterday. He will lecture at Harvard and Radcliffe on his special fields of nineteenth and twentieth Century European history. His title and the names of the courses which he will give could not be ascertained.

Professor Fay achieved the spotlight last fall with his two volume book on the "Origins of the World War." It was written after an exhaustive study of hitherto concealed archives and documents and is the most definitive work yet published on the subject.

Ph.D. at Harvard

The historian after receiving his Ph.D. at Harvard in 1900 was professor of history at Dartmouth, and received his present position at Smith in 1914. In the same year he was president of the Northeast Teachers' Association. From 1917 to 1921 he was a, lecturer at Harvard, and in 1924-25 he held a similar position at Amherst. He is a member of numerous historical and political science societies, and is on the Editorial Board of the "American Historical Review."