Directs Public Forum

Professor Malcolm Keir of the Department of Economics has been granted leave of absence for the second semester to act as one of the directors of the public forum which the United States Department of Education will inaugurate in Manchester, N. H., on February 1. The Manchester forum will be one of ten being sponsored throughout the country by the federal government for the promotion of adult education. The choice of Professor Keir as one of the directors was made by a special committee of which Louis P. Benezet '99, superintendent of schools in Manchester, is chairman.

Professor Keir's work as forum director will extend from February 1 until the latter part of June, and will consist of opening some of the evening sessions with a brief lecture on the topic under discussion, directing the ensuing discussion, and answering such questions as arise. Controversial topics from current events will be discussed at the adult forums.

Professor Keir is one of the country's best known authorities on industrial and labor problems. He has been professor of Economics at Dartmouth since 1919, and before that taught at the University of Pennsylvania, where he obtained his 8.5., M.A. and Ph.D. degrees. He was Labor Relations Counsel for the U. S. War Department in 1917-18, chief of the Division of Accounts of the Student Army Training Corps in 1918-19, and a member of the New Hampshire Advisory Committee on the N.R.A. in 1933.