Buck New Dean; Succeeds Ferguson

Paul H. Buck, Pulitzer prize-winner and member of the Faculty since 1926, has been raised from Assistant Dean to Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to succeed William S. Ferguson beginning next February, the University announced last night.

In this position, Dean Buck will become liaison man between the Faculty and the President and will be in charge of the personnel and tenure of Faculty members.

Came Here in 1926

Graduating from Ohio State in 1921, Dean Buck received his A.M. here three years later, and, in 1926, was made an instructor in History. Thence he rose to an assistant professorship in 1936, and finally he became associate professor in 1939.

For a book on his special interest, the Reconstruction Period after the Civil War, Buck was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in American History for the year 1938.

Ferguson Ends 3-Year Term

Dean Ferguson, also McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, in concluding his three-year appointment in February, is in the thirty-fourth year of his Harvard career which has included various tiffs with the administration.

He started out in 1908 as assistant professor of History, then became a full professor of Ancient History in 1912, receiving his present title in 1929.

More recently, in the celebrated Walsh-Sweezy dismissal incident four years ago, Ferguson was appointed by President Conant to the Committee of Eight investigating the case.

In spite of the critical attitude he developed toward the administration, his views on Faculty personnel and promotion were admitted to be valuable when he was made Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in 1939.