John Nash Douglas Bush, professor of English and chairman of the Department of English at the University of Minnesota, has been appointed associate professor of English here, it was announced yesterday. The appointment will be effective next September.

Born in 1896 Professor Bush graduated from Toronto University in 1920 with an A. B. In the Classics. He stayed there to obtain an A. M. in English in 1921. The next year he came to Harvard where he was given a Ph.D. in 1923, for which he wrote a thesis entitled "Classical Themes in English Non-Dramatic Literature of the Sixteenth Century". Within the year Professor Bush will publish a volume continuing this subject down to contemporary poetry.

Taught At Harvard

While a graduate student at Toronto, Professor Bush was a teaching fellow in English. In 1924, after obtaining his Harvard degree, he became a tutor in the Division of Modern Languages. He was an instructor in this division from 1925 to 1927. Then he went to the University of Minnesota, where he held a Guggenheim Fellowship during the year 1934-35.

Professor Bush has published numerous articles since 1923 dealing with English literature and philology, and Greek and Latin literature.