At the last meeting of the Corporation the following three scholarships were assigned: Winthrop scholarship to N. Utsurikawa 1G., George W. Dilaway fellowship to C. H. Smith '15, University scholarship to R. J. White '15. Sireno Carl Weist, And., of Gloucester, Harold Linson Stratton And., of Yankton, S. Dakota and Lewis Welton Sanford Dv., of Passumpsic, Vt., were awarded the Billings prize for improvement in pulpit delivery. The resignations of H. L. Gray '98 as Assistant Profesor of History and Tutor in the Division of History, Government, and Economics, of B. E. G. Dirks, from a University scholarship, and of A. D. Muir 3G., from the C. E. Norton fellowship, were received and accepted. Professor Irving Babbitt, of the Department of French, was granted leave of absence for the first half of the year 1915-16.

The following appointments were made: Clarence Erskine Kelley 1G., Assistant in Astronomy; Arthur Bliss Seymour, Assistant in the Cryptogamic Herbarium; James Royal Martin, Assistant in Physiology; Carl Ludwig Schrader, Instructor in Gymnastics, (re-appointed); Carl Christian Carstens, Lecturer on Social Ethics, (reappointed); Louis Adams Frothingham '93, Lecturer on State and City Government in Massachusetts, (reappointed); Edward Deshon Brandegee '81, Regent, (reappointed); Harold Eugene Bigelow '07, Research Fellow in Chemistry; Frederick Henderson Sterns 3G., Associate in Anthropology; Alexander Swanson Hegg. Assistant Secretary of the Graduate School of Medicine.