At the last meeting of the University Corporation, Dean Haskins was appointed acting chairman of the Library Council. Professor Algernon Coolidge '81 was appointed acting Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine. Leave of absence until September was confirmed for Assistant Professor James Ford '04, who has already left the University for war work in Washington. The following leaves of absence were also granted: to Clinical Professor Edward Hall Nichols '86, from May 1; to Assistant Professor Alexander Quackenboss, M.D. '90, from May 1; to Assistant Professor Elliott Proctor Joslin, M. D. '94, from April 1.

Appointments were conferred as follows: William Albert Perkins '11, as Alumni Assistant in Surgery; William Bradford Robbins '99, as Alumni Assistant in Medicine; Samuel Waldstein '18 as Assistant in Chemistry; George Alonzo Mirick, as Assistant in Education; William Norwood Souter, as Instructor in Ophthalmology; Ondess Lamar Inman, as Austin Teaching Fellow in Botany; Reginald George Trotter, as Austin Teaching Fellow in History; Sidney Raymond Packard, A.M. '16, as Austin Teaching Fellow in History; Carl Freemont Brand, as Austin Teaching Fellow in History; George Luther Lincoln '94, as Instructor in Romance Languages; Guillermo Lincoln '94, as Instructor in Spanish.