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TWELVE VISITORS JOIN FACULTY FOR 1931-1932

Von der LEYEN WILL HOLD KUNO FRANCKE CHAIR

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Twelve visiting lecturers and professors come to the University for the academic year 1931-32. Seven of the visitors will come from foreign universities, it was announced at University Hall.

Nine will have the title of lecturer and three appointments carry the title of professor Pierre Martino, professor of French Languages and Literature at the University of Algiers, is to be Exchange Professor from France for the second semester. Friedrich von der Leyen, from the University of Cologne, is Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard for one year from September 1, 1931. Sigurthur Nordal, Professor of Icelandic Literature at the University of Iceland at Reykjavik, has come for the academic year as the fifth incumbent of the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry.

English Editor to Lecture

Four of the lecturers also come from foreign countries, three of them for the full year. David Mitrany, for a number of years Foreign Editor of the Manchester Guardian, is to become Lecturer on Government and Tutor in the Division of History, Government and Economics for the full year.

Gottfried Haberler, formerly Privatdozent in the University of Vienna, and for a number of years librarian for the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, comes as a lecturer on Economics for the full year. In 1928-29 he gave a number of lectures here on advanced statistics. A. K. Grifflin, associate professor of Classics at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, becomes Lecturer on Greek and Latin and Tutor in the Division of Ancient Languages for the full year. L. C. Porter, for many years professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty at Poking University, Peiping, to be Lecturer on Chinese for the first half year.

George Vernadsky, research associate in History at Yale University, will be a lecturer on History for the full year.

For the first half year, J. D. Hicks, professor of American History at the University of Nebraska, will be a lecturer on History. W. H. Sheldon '95, professor of Philosophy at Yale, is to be a lecturer on Philosophy for the first half year.

G. L. Hendrickson, professor of Greek and Latin Literature at Yale, will be a lecturer on Greek and Latin for the second half year.

W. P. Montague '96, will come from Columbia University, where he is a professor of Philosophy, to be lecturer on Philosophy for the second half year.

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