FIVE HARVARD PROFESSORS GRANTED LEAVES OF ABSENCE

Five Harvard professors and assistant professors have been granted leaves of absence during all or part of the academic year 1929-30, according to an announcement made yesterday at University Hall. Kirsopp Lake, Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History, and A. E. Norton '04, professor of Mechanical Engineering, will be on leave during the second half of 1929-30, while Professor H. T. Stetson, of the Harvard Astronomical Observatory is to go on leave for the entire academic year.

Leave of absence has been granted to Assistant Professor Frederick Merk '21 of the Department of History for the whole year and to H. L. Clark, Curator of the Museum of Comparative Zoology for the last half.