DEAN HOLMES IS NAMED EDUCATIONAL ADVISER

Henry Wyman Holmes '03, professor of Education and Dean of the Graduate School of Education, has been named as consultant for the Educational Policies Commission at Washington, D. C.

The Commission was appointed for a five-year term in December, 1935, by the joint action of the National Education Association, of which Dean Holmes is a member, and the Department of Superintendence, to develop long-range planning for the improvement of American schools.

Dean Holmes received his Master's Degree in 1904.

He was head of the English Department at the High School of Commerce in Boston in 1906 and 1907; after that, at Harvard, he was successively instructor, assistant professor, and professor in the Department of Education. He has been Dean of the School of Education since 1920.

He has also collaborated on several books, chief among which are "Composition and Rhetoric," written jointly with Oscar C. Gallagher '96 in 1916, and "The Path to Learning," with B. P. Fowler in 1927.