DR. SPEIGHT ELECTED PROFESSOR OF PHILOSOPHY

Rev. Harold E. B. Speight, D.D., minister of King's Chapel, Boston, since 1921 and the tenth in line of clergymen in that church since its foundation in 1686 resigned his ministry recently to accept election to a professorship of Philosophy at Dartmouth.

Dr. Speight was born in England, spent part of his boyhood in South Africa, and was educated in England and Scotland, graduating from the University of Aberdeen with first class honors in philosophy and winning the Bain gold medal as first man of his class. He held the position of assistant professor in philosophy in the same university and was then elected to a teaching fellowship at Oxford. He was called to King's Chapel after a succession of pastorates in London, Victoria, 8.C., and Berkeley, Cal., and war service overseas as a chaplain. He was one of the few chaplains to be promoted overseas. In 1925 he was given the honorary degree of doctor of divinity by Tufts College in recognition of his services to the religious life of the community. He has just been appointed literary editor of the Christian Leader, published in Boston. He is president of the Benev- olent Fraternity of Churches and an officer of the Greater Boston Federation of Churches, a trustee of Bradford Academy and a director of the Buckingham School, Cambridge. He has been college preacher at a number of universities and colleges, including Harvard, University of Chicago, Smith and Mount Holyoke. In 1925 he edited a volume of "Week-day Sermons in King's Chapel."