FILL OBSERVATORY OFFICE

Harlow Shapley, an astronomer connected with the Mt. Wilson Solar Ovservatory at Pasadena, has been appointed Observer of the Harvard College Observatory, and will enter upon his new duties about March. His appointment is for one year. The position to which he has been appointed is a new one, and will give him an opportunity to take an active part in the work of the Observatory in cooperation with the Acting Director, Professor Solon L. Bailey, and the other members of the staff. Mr. Shapley took his doctor's degree at Princeton, and although he is now only slightly over thirty years old, has made a name for himself among astronomers for his investigations of the structure of the sidereal universe.

Several appointments for the remainder of the present year are announced at the University. Edward S. Emery '87 becomes Assistant Comptroller; Robert Rowser '13 becomes Instructor in Transportation at the Business School; John J. Sexton '18 is appointed Instructor in French; Barnett F. Dodge is to be Lecturer on Chemistry, and Herbert H. Palmer G. '11, and Winthrop P. Bell G. '09, are to be Assistants in Physics and Philosophy respectively.

Eward Scholarships to Eighteen

Eighteen men in the Medical and Dental Schools have been awarded scholarships for the current year, as follows:

David W. Cheever Scholarship in the Medical School to Irving A. Farrell 1M., of Central Falls, D. L.

George Haven Scholarships in the Medical School to Frank L. Dunn 1M., of Erie, Pa.; Norman W. Elton 1M., of Boston; Wilfred G. Jones 1M., of Newark, Ohio; John W. Spies 1M., of Bonham, Texas; Leo M. Taran 1M., of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Jacob Fine 1M., of Roxbury; Frederic W. Lathrop 1M., of Carmel, Conn.; and Charles S. Woodall 1M., of Macon, Ga.

James E. Mears Scholarship to Paul A. Chandler 1M., of Hastings, Neb.

Francis Skinner Fund to A. W. Oughterson 1M., of Hall, N. Y.

Gordon Bartlett Scholarships to Allen W. Locke 3M., of Rutland, Vt; Robert R. Ryan 3M., of New London, Conn.; and John G. Anderson 3M., of Westerly, R. I.

Joseph Eveleth Scholarships in the Dental School to Brooks H. Marsh, of Waltham; Charles A. Levinson, of Boston, and Oswald L. K. Fraser of Montreal, Ganada.

Eugene Hanes Smith Scholarship in the Dental School, endowed in honor of Dean Smith of the School, to Harry M. Ostrander, of Kerhonkson, N. Y.