Dr. Robert L. Calhoun, professor of Historical Theology at Yale, has been appointed William Belden Noble Lecturer at Harvard for the 1942-43 academic year, the University announced yesterday. Dr. Calhoun will fill a position which such eminent men as Dr. John H. Cockburn, Moderator of the Church of Scotland, and William Temple, former Archbishop of York, now Archbishop of Canterbury, have held in past seasons.

Several public lectures on a religious subject will be given, and in the first half year Dr. Calhoun will present a course on "Religious Interpretation of Reality." The lectures were established by Mrs. Nannie Y. Noble in memory of her husband, who graduated from College in 1885.