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SELECT ADMINISTRATIVE BOARDS

Eight Assistants Also Appointed by President and Fellows.

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At a meeting of the President and Fellows of Harvard College in Boston, September 21, 1914, it was voted to appoint the following members of the Administrative Board for 1914-15: Byron Satterlee Hurlbut, Dean, Robert Wheeler Willson, Charles Pomeroy Parker, Robert DeCourcy Ward, George Henry Chase, Chester Noyes Greenough, and Henry Aaron Yeomans. Alexander James Inglis was appointed Assistant Professor of Education for five years from September 1, 1914, which election was approved by the Board of Overseers at their meeting of September 28, 1914. The vote to establish a Faculty of Architecture was consented to by the Overseers at the same meeting.

At a meeting of the President and Fellows on September 28, 1914, it was voted to appoint the following administrative boards for 1914-15:

Dental School: Eugene Hanes Smith, Dean, Charles Albert Brackett, Edward Cornelius Briggs, George Howard Monks, William Parker Cooke, William Henry Potter, Amos Irving Hadley, George Henry Wright, Samuel Tuttle Elliott, and Leroy Matthews Simpson Miner.

Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: Charles Homer Haskins, Dean, Edward Laurens Mark, George Lyman Kittredge, Frederick Jackson Turner, Elmer Peter Kohler, William Fogg Osgood, Charles Burton Gulick, Reginald Aldworth Daly, John Albrecht Walz, and Ralph Barton Perry. It was further voted to elect Herbert Langford Warren to the position of Dean of the Faculty of Architecture from September 1, 1914. This was approved by the Board of Overseers at their meeting a week later.

The following resignations were received and accepted to take effect September 1, 1914: Ernest H. Caswell as Instructor in Operative Dentistry; John Crowe Ransom as Assistant in English; Howard Moffitt Trueblood as Assistant in Physics.

Five men received assistantships in government and three in physics. The former are Pitman Benjamin Potter, Oscar William Haussermann, Edwin Angell Cottrell, Chester Alden McLain, and George Herbert McCaffrey; the latter, Arman Edward Becker, James Beeb Brinsmade, David Locke Webster. Hale Gifford Knight was appointed Austin Teaching Fellow in Government, while Julius Klein was made an instructor in Latin-American History. Joseph Wright received the position of Superintendent of the Library of the Bureau of Research in Municipal Government, and Gordon Ware became Assistant Secretary for Employment.

It was also voted to grant Professor Frederic J. Stimson leave of absence for the year 1914-15.

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