BENDER TO BE NEW ASSISTANT DEAN AS HINDMARSH SHIFTS

Three changes have been made in the personnel of the assistant deans of Harvard College, it was announced yesterday at University Hall. Douglas Swain Byers '25, assistant dean in charge of Records is resigning to become assistant to the director of the Peabody Museum. Dean Byers's place in the Records office will be filled by Albert Edward Hind-marsh, assistant dean of Freshmen, and Wilbur Joseph Bender '27 will succeed Dean Hindmarsh.

Dean Bender's home address is Goshen, Indiana. After graduating from the College with the Class of 1927, Magna Cum Laude in History, he became a student in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he received his A.M. in 1930. He is an assistant in History 5a and 5b, and was this year a Freshman proctor in Smith Halls. He will take up his new duties in the fall as adviser to the Class of 1935, assisting Delmar Leighton '17, whose appointment as Dean of Freshmen was announced earlier in the present academic year.

Many Will Aid Freshmen

The Freshman deans will be aided for the first time next fall by 12 Faculty members who will be known as "Associates of the Freshmen" and eight instructors in Freshman courses who will reside in the Yard. The associates will consult with administrative officers on matters relating to the first year men, while the instructors will take their meals in the Union, and will be available for conferences at stated hours.

Byers, who will aid Dr. Thomas Barbour '06 in the direction of the Peabody Museum, received his A.M., in 1928, and has served in the Records office since 1929. Hindmarsh will take over his new duties after two years of service in University 4.