Charles R. Cherington '35, associate professor of Government, will be temporary dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration next year in the absence of Edward S. Mason, now dean of the Littler schools, it was learned yesterday.

Mason has been granted a half year's sabbatical leave, and will be away an additional half year under the sponsorship of the Merrill Foundation, which has granted funds for an extensive study of the problems of monopoly and competitions.

The study, which Mason is directing, will probably take five or six years of intensive labor by many men before completion. This is the group's first year at work.

Wages and Prices

At present, Mason is studying problems of wages and prices. He hopes to finish a book on the subject during the year of his leave.

Mason has been dean of the School of Public Administration since 1947. He has in the past been a deputy to the assistant secretary of state in charge of economic affairs, economic consultant to the State Department and was chief economic advisor at the Moscow conferences in 1947. President Truman also appointed Mason to a committee for improving government organization.

Cherington served as secretary of the School of Public Administration until last spring when ill health forced him to stop teaching for almost a year.