POST AT ST. JOHN'S CALLS BACON FROM UNIVERSITY

Robert Earle 'Bacon, for five years assistant dean of the University, has resigned his position at Harvard to take the office of dean of St. John's College at Annapolis, Maryland.

Mr. Bacon, who also served at Harvard and Radcliffe as an assistant in English, was graduated from Lafayette College in 1917 and in the following year took the degree of master of arts at the University. During the war he held the rank of ensign in the United Stated Navy.

He began teaching at Trinity College, in Hartford, Connecticut, and after a short time came to Harvard.

Although Mr. Bacon in expected to devote nearly all of his time at St. John's to administrative duties, he will give several courses in English and hold an assistant professorship in that department.

It is understood that Mr. Bacon was recommended to President E. B. Garey, of St. John's, by President Lowell, and he was selected by a committee headed by Dr. J. H. Latane, professor of American History at Johns Hopkins University.