It was announced by the Corporation yesterday that Allyn Abbott Young, professor of Economics and Finance at Cornell University, and Economic Advisor to the American Peace Commission has been appointed a professor of Economics in the University. In addition to conducting courses on money and banking, it is hoped that Professor Young will also continue his contributions to economic theory by developing work in mathematical economics.

Professor Young was born in Kenton, Ohio, in 1878. He studied at Hiram College, Ohio, and subsequently took his Doctor's degree at the University of Wisconsin in 1902. Since then he has taught at Wisconsin, Western Reserve University, Dartmouth, Leland Stanford, Washington, and Cornell. He was one of the principal American economic advisors at the Peace Conference.

A number of other important academic appointments have been announced a the University:

Campbell, Professor of Law.

Morton Carlisle Campbell, LL.B. '00, who is now serving as Visiting Lecturer on Law at the University, becomes professor of Law. In 1896 Professor Campbell graduated from Washington and Jefferson, and after receiving his law degree from the University spent several years in practice. Returning to the Law School he took his Doctor's degree in 1915 and thereafter served as professor of Law at Tulane University and at the University of Indiana. During the war he was a major.

Chester Albert McLain '13 has been appointed an assistant professor of Law During 1916-17, Mr. McLain was a Thayer Teaching Fellow at the Law School. Upon the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the Engineers as a private and saw service in France, where he rose to a lieutenancy. He was given his Doctor's degree in 1918, his work for the doctorate having been substantially completed when he enlisted. Since his return from service abroad, he has been employed in the Treasury Department.

Professor Magruder, who was also appointed an assistant professor of Law, was graduated from the Law School cumlaude in 1915, serving in his third year as note editor of the Law Review. He then become secretary to Justice Brandeis. During the war he was in military service, after which he took a position with the Shipping Board.

Full Professorship For E. E. Day

Edmund Ezra Day, assistant professor of Economics, has been advanced to a full professorship. Professor Day was graduated from Dartmouth in 1905 and since then has been engaged in study and teaching in the University. During the war he was engaged in administrative work with the War Industries Board in Washington. His specialty is the theory, organization, and practice of statistics.

Oliver D. Kellogg of the University of Missouri, a graduate of Princeton in the class of 1899, has been appointed associate professor of mathematics. Professor Kellogg studied in Germany after winning his A M degree at Princeton in 1900 and subsequently taught at Princeton until 1905. Since then he has been at the University of Missouri, first--as assistant professor of mathematics, and later as full professor. During the war he was connected with the United States Naval Experiment Station at New London.

Several New Assistant Professors

In the Business School, Jacob Hugh Jackson takes the position of assistant professor of Accounting. Professor Jackson now holds a similar place on the staff of the University of Minnesota, from which he is on leave of absence taking courses in the Business School. He was graduated from Simpson College in 1912. He is a certified public accountant in Massachusetts and Wisconsin and has been assistant professor of Commerce in the University of Oregon.

Edwin Adams Shaw, A.M. '16, becomes assistant professor of Education. Frederick W. C. Lieder, Ph.D. '07, is promoted from instructor in German to assistant professor. Arthur F. Whittem '92, Herbert S. Langfeld and Jacques Bronfenbrenner, Dr. P. H. '19, are reappointed as assistant professors of Romance Languages, Psychology, and Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, respectively. Thurman L. Hood '08 becomes a member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences for another year. William Chase Greene '11, now a teacher at Groton School and winner of the famous Newdigate Prize while a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, becomes instructor in Greek and Latin Elmer R. Schaeffer '13 is named instructor in Physics, and Donald K. David instructor in Marketing and assistant dean of the Business School.