Unknown. Celtic has traditionally had two tenured members, but both of them retired this year. New Chairman Sean O. Coileain may want some senior level company.

CHEMISTRY

There are an unspecified number of openings but no final choices, according to Director of the Chemical Laboratories Donald J. Ciappenelli.

THE CLASSICS

Three searches, according to Chairman Albert Henrichs: one in Greek Comedy, to replace the late Cedric Wideman, who died in 1979; one in Ancient History; and one in Philology, for which a choice will be made by the spring of 1985.

COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

"We've been trying to make these appointments for three years," Chairman Walter J. Kaiser '54 said of the two slots open in Comp I it.

Twice, Harvard has made an often, only to be rebuked, he added; and last spring President Bok denied the department's nomination of former Associate Professor Richard Sieburth.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

"There's at least one search," said Paul C. Martin '52, dean of the Division of Applied Science.

EAST ASIAN

Harold Bohtho of Monash University in Australia has been offered a tenured position in pre modern Japanese history, said Department Chairman Edwin A. Cranston.

Bolitho would replace Donald H. Shively, the professor of Japanese History and literature who resigned last year to go to Berkeley.

In the next three or four years, Cranston added, the department will undertake a tenure search to replace Professor of Chinese and Central Asian History Joseph J. Fletcher Jr. '57, who died this summer.

ECONOMICS