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HARVARD HOST TO TWELVE SCHOLARS IN VARIED FIELDS

Salvemini, Ulrich, Rosenstock-Hussy Return--Dennes to be Lecturer on Philosophy

Harvard will be host for the coming academic year to a large group of visiting lecturers and professors. Of the twelve visitors eight will have the title of Lecturer and four will carry the title of Professor. All four professors and half of the lecturers will come from foreign countries.

Samuel Flagg Bemis, professor of history at George Washington University since 1924, will come to Cambridge as lecturer for the first half-year. Professor Bemis won the Pulitzer prize in history in 1926 for a book on Pinckney's treaty, and the Knights of Columbus prize for the best historical book of the year by an American college professor in 1923, for a study of Jay's treaty.

The William James Lecturer on Philosophy and Psychology during the first half-year will be Wolfgang Koehler, professor of philosophy and director of the Psychological Institute at the University of Berlin.

Two other appointments for the first half-year are those of Niles Carpenter of the University of Buffalo, who will come to Harvard as lecturer on Sociology; and Walter Rice Sharp of the University of Wisconsin, who will come as lecturer on government and tutor in the division of history, government and economics.

Dr. Jules Blache, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Grenoble, will come to Harvard as Exchange Professor from France for the second half-year. Dr. Leopold von Wiese, director of the Research Institute in Social Science at Cologne, Germany, will be Lecturer on Sociology for the second half-year. William Ray Dennes, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, will come as Lecturer on Philosophy for the second half-year.

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In addition to the new appointments, a former visiting lecturer is also returning to Harvard this year on a regular university appointment. He is William Koehler, former Director of the Weimar State Art Collection, and will come this year as Professor of Fine Arts. Professor Koehler has been Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard since September 1932.

Continuing this year as Lauro de Bosis Lecturer on History of Italian Civilization is Gaetano Salvemini, who has been a visiting professor at several universities in England and America for the past few years, and was at Harvard during the second half of the past year. Professor Salvemini served as Professor of History in the Universities of Messina, Pisa, and Florence from 1901 to 1925. Also continuing as Lecturer on Comparative Education is Robert Ulich who was until recently Professor of Philosophy at the Higher Technical School of Dresden. Dr. Ulich was in Cambridge during the second half of the past academic year and gave several public lectures.

Dr. Eugen Rosenstock-Hussy will return to Harvard this year as Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture for the first half-year and will be a visiting lecturer during the second half-year. Dr. Rosenstock-Hussy, professor of the History of Law and of German Law at the University of Breslau, Germany, has been visiting lecturer on Government during the past year. Dr. Paul Kluckhohn, professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Tubingen, will come as Kuno Francke Professor for the second half-year

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