Announcement was made last night of the election of Dr. Harvey Nathaniel Davis, professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Engineering School, to the presidency of Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N. J.

Dr. Davis, who is a graduate of Brown University in the class of 1901, took his Ph.D. degree at Harvard in 1906. In 1905 he became an instructor in physics and held the position for five years until his appointment to an assistant professorship in the Physics Department in 1910. In 1919 he became a professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Engineering School and has held the chair ever since. During the war Dr. Davis was an aeronautical engineer in the air service and performed many services of much value in that connection.

The institution of which Dr. Davis will take charge commencing with the next academic year, is the oldest strictly mechanical college in the country. It issues but one degree, that of Mechanical Engineer, and has turned out some of the country's leading engineers in its 58 years of existence.

Dr. Davis will succeed Dr. Alexander C. Humphrys who died last summer. Dr. Humphrys was the second president that Stevens has had, having built the institute up until it now enjoys a most enviable reputation as an eminently successful trainer of mechanical engineers.