Among the important appointments confirmed by the Board of Overseers is that of Wilbur C. Abbott, now profesor of History at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, to be professor of History at the University.

Professor Abbott was born at Kokomo, Indiana, in 1869, was graduated from Wabash College in 1892, did graduate work at Cornell and Oxford, and on the continent, and taught successively at Cornell, Michigan, Dartmouth, and the University of Kansas before coming to Yale, where he has been since 1908. At the University he will give courses in Modern English History, the French Revolution, and the Napoleonic Era, thus taking over much of the work of the late Professor R. M. Johnston and of Mr. Harold J. Laski.

Two Changes in Business School.

In the Graduate School of Business Administration John Gurney Callan, who is at present lecturer in Factory Management, was appointed professor of Industrial Management, and Durward Earle Burchell was appointed professor of Industrial Accounting. Mr. Callan received his S.B. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1896 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has had extensive experience in factory management, and during the past four years he has been chairman of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Burchell is a Columbia graduate and has been on the teaching staff at the University of Utah, the University of Wisconsin, and Columbia, besides having much practical experience in industrial accounting. He, as well as Mr. Callan, has been lecturing at the University this year.

Alexander J. Inglis, assistant professor of Education, was promoted to a full professorship in the new Graduate School of Education, while Dr. Alexander Quackenboss, M.D. '92, was elected to the Williams Professorship of Ophthalmology at the Medical School.

Under the new system of promotion for the University staff, according to which the associate professorship is restored to its position as a regular grade between the assistant professorship and the full professorship, twelve members of the Faculty have been raised to the rank of associate professor. This new plan of promotion was put into effect in March upon the recommendation of a joint committee of the Corporation and the Faculties, at the time when it was voted to put through a 40 to 50 per cent. increase in the salaries of the teaching staff.

Twelve New Associate Professors.

The twelve new associate professors are Archibald T. Davison '06, until now assistant professor of Music and known to the public chiefly as the director of the Harvard Glee Club and the University Choir; John M. Brewer, A.M. '15, until now instructor in Education and director of the Bureau of Vocational Guidance; George E. Johnson, hitherto assistant professor of Education; Chandler R. Post '04, who will be associate professor of Greek and of the Fine Arts; Carl M. Jackson whose subjects are Greek and Latin; William G. Howard '91, in German; Frederick A. Saunders, in Physics; Louis Allard, in French; George S. Forbes '02, in Chemistry; Alfred M. Tozzer '00, in Anthropology; Arthur E. Norton, in Mechanical Engineering; and Irving W. Bailey '07, in Forestry. Of these men, Professors Brewer and Johnson will be members of the staff of the new Graduate School of Education.

Henry H. Farquhar, M.B.A. '16, was appointed assistant professor of Industrial Management in the Business School while George LaPiana and Norris F. Hall, A.M. '15, were appointed for three-year terms as instructors in Church History and Chemistry respectively