MEETING OF THE TRUSTEES

At the June meeting of the Board of Trustees held in Hanover at Commencement time several faculty appointments and promotions were made. Professor Frank Naloy Anderson, Minnesota '94, was appointed Professor of History. Professor Anderson has studied at Harvard, Minnesota and Paris. He was Instructor in History in the University of Minnesota from 1895 to 1898, Assistant Professor from 1898 to 1905 and has been Professor since 1905. He has published "Constitutions and Other Selected Documents Illustrative of the History of France 1789-1901," as well as a volume on English constitutional history and a number of studies based on documents on the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions in the War of 1812.

Other appointments were: Louis Klipffel, Assistant Professor of French on the Edward Tuck Foundation; Ralph Dennison Beetle '06, Instructor in Mathematics; Max Otto Hermann Martin Mueller, Instructor in German; Wilbur P. Calhoun, of the University of Michigan Graduate School, Instructor in Economics; Louis C. Mathewson, Instructor in Mathematics.

Professors John Vose Hazen, James F. Colby and John W. Goldthwait were granted leave of absence for the second semester of the college year 1914-1915.

The following promotions were also made: Professor W. K. Stewart from Assistant Professor to Professor of German; Professor W. R. Gray from Assistant Professor to Professor of Accounting and Secretary of the Tuck School; Dr. Leland Griggs from Instructor to Assistant Professor of Biology; Mr. A. H. Basye, from Instructor to Assistant Professor of History.

An important change was made in the title of secretary to the President to that of secretary of the College and Gray Knapp '12 was promoted to the new position.

Through the generosity of Miss Mary Brackett of New York City the College has received a portrait of her grandfather, Joseph W. Brackett of the class of 1800, a contemporary and friend of Daniel Webster. The College was also the recipient of an autograph letter of Daniel Webster accepting the position of speaker at the dedication of Bunker Hill monument.