The National Institute of Arts and Lecturers elected to its ranks last week William E. Hocking '01, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy, and Civil Polity, emeritus. Professor Hocking will return to the University next term for the first time since his retirement in 1943 as William James Lecturer.

The 73-year-old philosopher, whose election to the Institute's Department of Literature accompanied that of newspaperwoman Anne O'Hare McCormick and author Christopher LaFarge '19, taught or studied in 15 different colleges before becoming chairman of the Division of Philosophy and Psychology in 1935 and chairman of the Department of Philosophy in 1937.

Philosophy 170, Professor Hocking's spring-term course, is a seminar in the philosophy of law for graduate students. It will attempt to analyze the basic concepts of rights, nation, and law, and will refer to the bases of international law.