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Academy of Arts and Sciences Elects Nine Of University Faculty

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Nine members of the Faculty were among the 35 new fellows elected by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at its 166th annual meeting held in Boston Wednesday. Chose president of the Academy for the 1946-47 season was Howard Mumford Jones, professor of English and former Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Erwin N. Griswold, professor of Law, was voted vice-president of the Social Arts Department of the group while Donald Scott '00, Peabody Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, was picked as vice-president of the Humanities area. The members chose L. Don Leet, associate professor of Geology, as corresponding secretary and Taylor Starck, professor of German, as editor.

One Mathematician

Paul D. Bartlett, associate professor of Chemistry, was the only faculty member elected to the Mathematics and Physical Sciences area. In the Natural and Physiological Sciences division those elected were: Cornelius S. Hurlbut, Jr., associate professor of Mineralogy, James L. peters '13, curator of birds, John F. Enders, associate professor of Bacteriology and Immunology, and Charles A. Janeway, associate professor of Pediatrics.

Voted a member of the Social Arts group was Theodore H. Brown, professor of Business Statistics. Stanley S. Stevens, associate professor of Psychology, Paul H. Buck, Provost, and John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature, were elected to the Humanities area.

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