NEW FACULTY MEMBERS

Professor Malcolm Keir formerly of the University of Pennsylvania, has been elected to a professorship in the department of Economics, to take effect at the beginning of the academic year 1919-1920.

Professor Keir comes direct from government work in Washington, where he has been acting as Assistant Chief, Contract Accounts Division, of the Committee on Education and Special Training.

His undergraduate work was done at Wesleyan University and the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his bachelor's degree in 1911. From 1911 to 1918 he was connected with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, serving successively as Assistant, Instructor and Assistant Professor of Industry, and receiving the degree of Ph. D. in 1916. In 1918 he entered government service, in the office of the Quarter-master General in Washington, where he was occupied with investigation and arbitration of labor controversies for the Industrial Relations Branch. In October last he transferred his work to the Committee on Education and Special Training and has been engaged in adjusting the contracts between the S. A. T. C. colleges and the Government.

Anton A. Raven comes as Instructor in English. He did his undergraduate work at Rutgers, receiving the degree of A. B. in 1916. For the next year he served as Instructor in English at the University of Maine. During the war he was in military service in the coast artillery and in aviation, and he is at present a candidate in the Harvard Graduate School, for the degree of A. M. at the end of the summer session.

Mr. A. R. Gilliland who has been appointed Instructor in Psychology, is a graduate of the University of Chicago. He also received the degree of Ph. D. from University of Michigan in 1919. He has had considerable experience in secondary school work and has also been engaged in college work as Instructor in Psychology.

Mr. P. A. Fraleigh, the new member of the department of Mathematics, received his bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1917 and his master's degree in 1918. During the last year he has been acting as Instructor in Mathematics at Cornell.

Ray V. Leffler has been appointed Instructor in Economics for the coming year. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan in the class of 1915, and received the degree of A. M. at the same university in 1917, where for the last three years he has been instructor in Economics.