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Thompson Made Music Professor

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Randall Thompson '20 will come to Harvard as professor of Music next fall, A. Tillman Merritt, Chairman of the Music Department, announced last night. Thompson, a noted American composer, was formerly professor of Music at Princeton.

Merritt made the announcement at the annual dinner of the Glee Club, held at the Harvard Club of Boston last night, at which Thompson was the principal speaker. Other events included speeches by G. Wallace Woodworth '24, conductor of the Club, and Mayo A. Shattuck '18, Graduate Advisor, and the election of officers for the coming year.

Those elected were Freeman Keith '48 president, Robert Kleinschmidt '46 vice-president, Dale Wickham '50 secretary, and J. Fairley McDonald '49 member-at-large.

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