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Professor Barrett Wendell '77, of the English Department, has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters at its annual meeting in New York City. Gari Melchers, the American painter, was also elected to membership. Professor Wendell and Mr. Melchers were the only men nominated for the vacancies caused by the deaths of Henry James and James, Whitcomb Riley.
Professor Wendell is widely known as the author of "Cotton Mather," "English Composition" and many other volumes of biography and literary criticism. He has been a professor of English at the University since 1898, and was a lecturer at the Sorbonne and other French universities in 1894 and 1895.
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