The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-09-21

Dir will act as chairman of a new section of the department of the social sciences devoted to the de- velopment of study and research in the field of cultural anthropol- ogy. Through arrangements with the Peabody Museum and the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, this section will engage in field work both in the United States and abroad. Professor Sapir will also be a member of the new depart ment established in the graduate school to promote study and re- search in linguistics.
 In addition to his assignment to the graduate school, Dr Sapir will be a member of the staff on the university's institute of human re- lations. A graduate of Columbia university, Professor Sapir was chief of the division of anthropol- ogy of the Canadian National Mu- scum before he taught at the Uni- versity of Chicago.
 Howard Edward Boardman, con- struction engineer of the Boston and Maine railroad, comes to Yale to be Dudley professor of railroad engineering. A graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School in 1899, Professor Boardman has had an extensive experience in railroad engineering on the Pennsylvania railroad, Missouri Pacific railroad, and the Boston and Maine railroad. He was senior assistant engineer and later chief engineer in charge of the layout and construction of the underground passenger station and four miles of electrified rail- way tunnels under the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina. For seven years he was engineering as- sistant to the general valuation counsel of the New York Central Lines. Professor Boardman is the first Dudley professor of railroad engineering. a professorship which was established by bequest of Lucy B. Dudley and by an additional be- quest of her husband, Plimmon H. Dudley. who was for many years consulting engineer for the New York Central Lines.
 Robert Ernest Doherty, consult ing engineer of the General Elec- tric company has been appointed professor of electrical engineering. Professor Doherty was personal assistant to Steinmetz at the Gen. eral Electric company and when the scientist died, was appointed consulting engineer. Olin Glenn Saxon, of New York city, joins the Yale faculty as professor of busi- ness administration. Professor Sax on was associated with the depart ment of commerce and department of justice in 1917-1919, and was at- torney and special agent in the de- partment of justic administering the trading with enemy act and other war statutes.
 Wilbur Marshall Urban, of Dart mouth College comes to Yale as professor of philosophy. He is and received his doctors degree from the University of Leipzig. He has been successively reader in philosophy at Princeton and pro- lessor of philosophy at Ursinus College. Trinity College, and at Dartmouth. He has been visiting professor at Harvard University and at the University of California.
 Thurman Wesley Arnold. dean and professor of law at the Univer- sity of West Virginia. who has been visiting professor of law at Yale. becomes professor of law at the Yale law school. A graduate of Princeton University, and of Harv- ard University where he received his law degree, Professor Arnold has been active in promoting re- forms in law administration with the Bar Association of West Virgil mia. He has published many arti- cles in law review and journals.
 Dr Christian Richard Thurnwald of the University of Berlin, has been appointed Bishop Museum visiting professor of anthropology. Dr Thurnwald comes to Yale to give instruction and direct re- search in the problems of the Pacific area under the terms of the agreement by which Yale and the Bishop Museum at Honolulu are affiliated. Dr Walter Richard Miles who has been professor of experi- mental psychology at Stanford University since 1922 joins the Yale faculty as professor of psy- chology. Professor Eduard Prok- osch becomes Sterling professor of Germanic languages, succeeding to the Sterling chair formerly held by Dean Emeritus Wilbur l.. Cross, professor of English. In addition to Professors Loram and Sapir. Sterlin. professorships have been assigned to James Harvey Rogers. professor of political economy at Yale, and formerly professor of economies at Cornell University and the University of Missouri: and to Oyxtein Ore, now professor of mathematics at Yale and formerly of the University of Oslo. Norway. These appointments have been made possible by the gift of Al.