Appointments of four lecturers to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences were announced yesterday at University Hall. Professor Oliver Elton, of the University of Liverpool, and H. R. Patch, Professor of English at Smith College, will teach in the English Department during the year 1930-31. Gaetano Salvemini, of the University of Florence, will lecture in the History Department this next half year while Josef Schumpeter, of Bonn, will be associated with the Economics Department.

Professor Elton, who lectured at Harvard in the spring of 1926, has been appointed lecturer in English for the year beginning next September. He received his M.A. at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and holds honorary degrees from the Universities of Durham, Manchester, Oxford, Edinburgh, and Liverpool. He was King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool from 1900 to 1925, and is the author of books discussing the early periods of English literature.

Salvemini will lecture at Harvard and Radcliffe on the history of Italy from the French Revolution to the end of the late war. He was formerly professor of Mediaeval and Modern History at the University of Messina, 1902-09, University of Pisa, 1909-17, and the University of Florence, 1917-25.

Professor Patch will be lecturer in English for the second half of the year 1930-31. He was graduated from Hobart College, and received his A.M. and Ph.D. from Harvard. Before he became professor of English at Smith in 1924 he was an instructor at Harvard, a lecturer and later assistant and associate professor at Bryn Mawr. He has written several studies on English literature.

Schumpeter, who was post-war Minister of Finance of Austria, will lecture on money and banking. He previously has taught at Harvard and will come here for the first half of next year.