DEAN POUND OFFERS LAW POST TO NEW HAMPSHIRE JUSTICE

An appointment as research professor of criminal law at the Harvard Law School has been offered Justice Oliver W. Branch '02 of the New Hampshire Supreme Court by Dean Roscoe Pound, it was announced yesterday. His decision as to the offer has not yet been received.

Justice Branch, originally from New York City, entered Harvard in 1898 and received his A. B. degree after four years of academic work. He completed a course at the Law School two years later. After a distinguished legal career he was appointed chief justice of the New Hampshire Superior Court and the next year went to the Supreme Court bench. His term will expire in 1929.