RIPLEY RESIGNS FROM ROPES PROFESSORSHIP

The resignation of W. Z. Ripley, Sathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy, to become Professor Emeritus, was announced yesterday. The resignation will take effect on March 1 of this year. Leave of absence for seven members of the Faculty was also announced.

Professor Ripley is known as an expert in many fields, ranging from anthropology to transportation. He has written a number of books dealing with the subject and also served on several national boards and commissions. In 1918 he was administrator of labor standards for the War Department, and the following two years he was chairman of the National Adjustment Commission of the United States Shipping Board. From 1920 to 1923 he served with the Interstate Commerce Commerce Commission.

S. E. Morison '08, professor of History, has been granted leave for the second half of the present academic year, while R. B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, will have leave from March 20 to the end of the year. A. M. Schlesinger, professor of History, and Felix Frankfurier, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, will have leave for the entire year 1933-34.

Leave has also been granted to R. L. Hawkins '03, associate professor of French, for the first half of next year, and to E. K. Rand '94, Pope Professor of Latin. R. C. Cabot '89, professor of Clinical Medicine and Social Ethics, and J. A. McLaughlin, professor of Law, for the second half.