DR. NICHOLS, FORMER PRESIDENT, LEAVES YALE

Dr. Ernest Fox Nichols, former president of Dartmouth College, has resigned his professorship of physics at Yale to go to the General Electric Company. Dr. Nichols will take up his new work at the close of the present college year. He has been a member of the physics faculty of Yale since retiring from the presidency of .Dartmouth in 1916. Not long ago Dr. Nichols went to the General Electric Company to fill several special commissions. Not long after returning from that work to his university post, he announced that he had accepted a position with the industrial concern permanently.