At the last meeting of the University Corporation on Monday, two more members of the Faculty were granted leaves of absence for the remainder of the present academic year to enable them to engage in active war work. Professor Louis Caryl Graton, of the Geology Department, was granted leave of absence to serve in Washington, where he will take charge of the activities of the Copper Producers' Committee. Professor Graton's special field at the University has been Economic Geology and his new duties will be in connection with the economic phases of copper production. Dr. Robert Jay Cook was also granted leave of absence. He has been commissioned lieutenant in the Medical Reserve Corps and has been ordered to Camp Greenleaf, Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., for active service.

The award of the David A. Wells Prize in Economics to Julius Klein, A.M. '13, Ph.D., was announced at the Corporation meeting. Dr. Klein is an instructor in Latin-American History and Economics, but is on leave of absence for 1917-18, as head of the Latin-American Division in the Department of Commerce and Labor at Washington. The David A. Wells Prize is a $500 cash award offered annually by the Department of Economics through the benefaction of the late David A. Wells.

Freshman scholarships for 1917-18 were awarded as follows: Bernard Jacob Alpers, of Dorchester, Thomas Hall; Warren Davis Ball, of New Haven; Conn., Mary L. Whitney; William Henry Dunphy, of Dorchester, Thomas Hall; Stanley Brady Ecker, of Chicago, Ill., Harvard Club of Chicago; Clarence Francis Mateyka, of Cleveland, Ohio, Harvard Club of Cleveland; Benjamin Isadore Sperling, of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., Mary L. Whitney; Harry Starr, of Gloversville, N. Y., Class of 1867; James Norman White, of Arlington, Harvard Club of Chicago.