TRUSTEE MEETING
The first of the four trustee meetings scheduled to be held in Hanover during the college year was held in Parkhurst Hall Friday October 5. It was voted that "The trustees gratefully accept and acknowledge with appreciation the gift of $500 by A. O. Brown, for the improvement of the football field."
Prescott O. Skinner, assistant professor of Romance Languages was promoted to full professorship in this department. The appointment of Foster E. Guyer '06, as instructor in Romance Languages, was ratified. Mr. Guyer spent a year in study at Dartmouth after his graduation here in 1906. Another year he pursued studies in Berlin and Paris. In 1908 he was teacher of French in the University School, Chicago, and during the two succeeding years held the position of instructor in French, at Northwestern University. Since 1911 he has been fellow in Romance Languages in the University of Chicago.
It was voted that the chair to which the Reverend Benjamin T. Marshall was appointed last spring, shall henceforth be known as the Phillips Professorship of Biblical History and Literature.
Two gifts of $1000 each were accepted. The first, given by the late Robert L. Reed '64, is to establish a prize to be awarded for the most creditable work in Descriptive Geometry. The second, is of funds, not yet available, to be given by Mrs. Francis M. Bennett, for the establishment of a scholarship .
Bachelor degrees to members of the class of 1912 were voted as follows: A.8., Arthur Curtis Buell, John Edward Hall Randerson. 8.5., Edward John Daley, William Roscoe Jepson, Alfred Rheinhardt Miller, Henry Edward Sawyer.
