Evening star., 1925-09-20
new PROFESSORS
AT MARYLAND j.
Seven Men With Doctors De.
grees Added to Faculty
at College Park.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
COLLEGE PARK, Md, September
19.-Seven men with doctors degrees
have been added to the faculty Of the
University of Maryland and number
of other appointments made for the
school year that will open next We'd
nesday. The list includes Mrs. Hayes
Baker Crothers, Herbert M. Diamond,
c. l. Silin, C. B. Hale, George P.
Murdoch. w. Fl. S. Stevens, Robert
Calvert and Prof. w. F. Stevens, Rob-
ert Browning and Miss B. NJ. Crider
DIR. Wyllys Reed and Professors Sid
ney II. Handy and John ]. Davis
have been added to the Baltimore
branch of the university.
DR.. Crothers of the University of
Wisconsin, taught at Dartmouth Col
lege for five years before coming to
Maryland. He was in charge of the
course in citizenship there. He is
the joint author of a book on The
Problems of Citizenship" which is
leges and universities. DR.. Crothers
will head the history department.
New Business Dean.
DIR. Diamond of Yale has been ap-
pointed dean of the College of Busi-
ness Administration. In addition to
his position at Baltimore, he will be
professor Of economics and will con-
duct five classes in College Park. He
has been for number of years as
sistant director of the Wall Street di-
vision of the University of New York
of Commerce.
DR.. Silin Of Hopkins, who took his
undergraduate work at Harvard, is as
sociate professor of modern languages.
He will teach particularly the ro-
nance language. DR.. Slim spent the
last two years in France, Italy and
Spain and other countries of the Old
World. DIR. Hale of Cornell has been
appointed assistant professor of Eng
lish. He takes the place of Miss
Johnson, who has resigned. DR.. Hale
had been on the faculty at Cornell for
four years.
DIR. Murdock of Yale is an instruc-
tor in sociology. Before completing
his doctors work at Yale, he spent a
year or SO in the study of law at
Harvard and made a 16-month tour
his doctors thesis, he spent a year
and a half in Germany.
DIR. Stevens from Pennsylvania.
DIR. Stevens of Pennsylvania has
been appointed professor of finance
mainly for work in the College OF
Business Administration, but will
give one course in economics at Col
lege Park in competition and unfair
practices He was formerly on the
faculty at Columbia University and
for several years has been assistant
chief economist of the Federal Trade
Commission.
DIR. Calvert was appointed pro-
fessor of industrial chemistry in the
place of Asst. Prof. Gardner, who re-
signed.
Mr.. Stevens of Northwestern Uni
yerSity, who took several courses at
the university last year in order to
fill the vacancy created by the reSig-
nation of DR.. t. B. Thompson, has
been appointed assistant professor of
accounting and business administra-
ton He also will handle several of
the courses previously conducted by
DR.. Thompson.
Miss Crider, named as acting in
structor in English, takes the place
Of Miss Susan Harman, assistant
professor of English, who has been
granted a leave of absence for a year
to take graduate work. Miss Crider
is a graduate of King-Fisher College
and has a masters degree from the
University of Oklahoma.
DIR. Rede in English.
DR. Rede, former president of
Mount Vernon College of Baltimore,
has been appointed acting professor
of English and business ethics. Prof.
Sidney H. Handy, who has been pro-
fessor and head of the department of
English at ST. Johns College, has
been appointed assistant professor of
English, in Baltimore.
Among the more important other
appointments was that of Prof. E. H.
Skelton. Phi. B. and c. E., of Yale,
formerly at Allegheny College. added
to the engineering faculty as assist
ant professor. He taught for several
years at Yale and at Pei Yang Uni
versity, Tientsin. China.
John J. Davis has been made as
sistant professor of modern Ian
guages.
A number of changes in the ex-
pertinent station staff and the teach
ing staff of the College of Agriculture
also have taken place. Prof. P. w
Zimmerman, associate dean and pro-
fessor of bontany, whi has been on
leave for Is months conducting spe-
cial research at the University of
Chicago and the Thompson Institute,
has returned. Edward l.. Browne, B
s. and M. s., University of Maryland
1922 and 1928, has Joined the expert
ment station staff to conduct re-
search in the field of agricultural
economics.
Prof. Gamble i'm Baltimore.
Prof. j. A. Gamble, who resigned as
dairy husbandman, has accepted a po
sition in Baltimore. The dairy and
animal husbandry industry depart
ments have been organized as the de-
partment of animal industry, with
DIR. De Voc as chief
Prof. B. E. Carmichael, who has