Dr. George C. S. Benson, instructor in Government and Lowell House head tutor, will become managing editor of the magazine "State Government" next fall. He is leaving Harvard to take a position as research consultant to the American Legislators' Association.

Dr. Benson will teach a special session course this summer on "The New Deal" at the American University in Washington. In late August and September he will return to Cambridge to make investigations and studies of the Massachusetts civil service.

In college Dr. Benson teaches municipal government courses and takes an active part in local political affairs. He is chairman of the Public Service Committee of the Municipal Civic League, executive secretary, of the Massachusetts League of Municipalities, research director of the Harvard Bureau of Municipal Research, and a member of various civic organizations. He has written numerous articles on local governmental problems and a book on "Financial Control and integration."