PROFESSOR FLETCHER RESIGNS

The Board of Overseers of the Thayer School of Civil Engineering has announced the resignation of Professor Robert Fletcher, director of the school since 1871. Professor Fletcher studied engineering at the College of the City of New York, completing his course at West Point, and receiving the commisson of second lieutenant in the artillery. He has received the. honorary degrees of A.M., Ph.D., and D.Sc. from Dartmouth College, has served as member and president of the New Hampshire State Board of Health, of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, and has been consulting engineer on various bridges and waterworks in New Hamoshire.

As a successor to General Henry L. Abbott, whose resignation from the Board of Overseers has just been ac cepted, the board has elected Professor Fletcher. Professor C. A. Holden, a member of the faculty of Thayer School since 1904, will act as director of the school until the announcement of a permanent head is made.