SEVEN APPOINTED TO NEW POSITIONS IN THE UNIVERSITY

J. H. Williams, professor of Economics, and J. S. Bixler, lecturer on Theology, were two of seven men to receive elections and appointments to the faculty of Harvard University, it was announced last night at University Hall. Williams will become Ropes Professor of Political Economy succeeding W. Z. Ripley, who became Professor Emeritus on March 1. Bixler is to serve Bussey Professor of Theology.

Others honored are the following: W. C. Graustein '11, associate professor of Mathematics from 1926 to 1933 has been elected professor of Mathematics. M. H. Stone '22, associate professor of Mathematics at Yale since 1931 will come to Harvard next autumn as associate professor of Mathematics and tutor in Mathematics. He was a member of the department of Mathematics at Harvard from 1922, until he went to Yale in 1931. G. B. Kistiakowsky will serve as associate professor of chemistry. H. B. Cabot '17, a Boston lawyer and a graduate of the Harvard Law School has been appointed assistant professor in the Institute of Criminal Law. B. J. Bok, a Willson Teaching Fellow at Harvard since 1930 was appointed assistant professor in Astronomy and tutor in Physical Sciences.

Professor Williams is regarded as one of the foremost authorities on banking and currency. He has recently returned from Europe, where he served as one of the two United States representatives on the preparatory commission of experts for the World Economics of Conference to be held in London in June. He graduated from Brown University in 1912, and obtained his master's degree at Harvard in 1916, and his doctor's degree in 1919. He served as assistant professor of Economics at Princeton University in 1919-20, and associate professor of Banking at Northwestern University the following year. A member of the Department of Economics at Harvard since 1921, he served as professor of Economics from 1929 to the present time. It had been rumored that Professor Williams would accept a position with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York next year.