SEVEN APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE TO FACULTY

Appointments of two assistant professors and five lecturers were made known at University Hall yesterday. AT the same time the resignation of L. W. Collett, professor of Geology, was announced to take effect next September.

F. O. Matthiessen, instructor and tutor in History and Literature, becomes next fall assistant professor and tutor in the same field. G. B. Kistiakowsky, at present assistant professor of Chemistry at Princeton, comes to Harvard in September as assistant professor of Chemistry.

Of the five appointments of lecturers, only one will take effect this spring. Professor Selig Hecht of Columbia University will be Howe Lecturer on Opthalmology at the Harvard Medical School. Dr. W. S. Duke Elder of London will assume the same lectureship next year.

Roswell Magill, professor of Law at Columbia, will be visiting professor of Law at the Harvard Law School for the first half of 1930-31. Phillip de Vargas, professor of History in Yenching University, Peking, will be lecturer on Chinese. Halvdan Koht, professor in the University of Oslo, Norway, has been appointed lecturer in History. He will give two courses in the first half year, one on the social and political history of Scandinavia, the other on "Evolutionary Forces in History."

Professor Collett, whose resignation has just been announced, became professor of Geology here in 1923.