Professor Lewis of Yale Dies

NEW HAVEN, CONN., March 12.--Professor Charlton Miner Lewis Sanford, Professor of English at Yale since 1899, died suddenly at his home at noon today.

Professor Lewis, who graduated from Yale in 1886, practiced law in New York until 1895, when he became an instructor of English at Yale. During his 27 years of teaching, he became one of the foremost authorities on the English language in the country. He was the author of several text books on English verse and versification, and was a contributor to many well-known periodicals as well as editor of the "Yale Series of Younger Poets".