Normand R. Cartier, instructor in Romance Languages and Literatures, has been appointed to an assistant professorship in that department, Provost Buck announced over the weekend.

It will be the special assignment of Cartier to supervise and improve the teaching of undergraduate language courses in French, Italian, and Spanish.

Never Before Coordinated

To this date the department of Romance Languages and Literatures has never attempted to coordinate and polish the instruction in elementary languages, Associate Professor Francis M. Rogers, chairman of the department explained last night.

Cartier first came to Harvard in the fall of 1936 and received his A.M. in 1937. During the next two years he studied abroad as Arnold Travelling Fellow from Harvard. In 1946, after service in the Army and a summer of study in Mexico he returned to Harvard to teach.

Jaun A. Lopez Marichal, at present an instructor at Johns Hopkins also received an assistant professorship in Romance Languages and Literatures, it was announced at the same time.