Evening star., 1934-06-03
HAROLD COLDER
APPOINTED DEAN
Named Head of the Gradu-
ate School of Ameri-
can University.

DR.. Harold Colder, professor of Eng
lish at American University, has been
appointed dean of the Graduate
School of American University, sue
ceeding DR.. LuciuS c. Clark, who be-
comes chancellor emeritus.
This was announced at the Alumni
Association banquet at the Mayflower
Hotel last night by Chancellor Joseph
M. M. Gray, who also announced that
graduate courses will be reorganized
and expanded next year. and that the
new school of public affairs OF the
university will be held from June 25
to August II.
Commencement Exercises.
Meantime. plans were completed for
commencement, which will take place
tomorrow morning at the gymnasium
auditorium on The campus. Sir Will
mott Lewis, Washington correspondent
for the London Times. will deliver the
commencement address. The bacca-
laureate sermon will be delivered this
afternoon at Metropolitan Memorial
Methodist Episcopal Church, at Ne
braSka and New Mexico avenues, by
Chancellor Gray.
The alumni banquet last night at
the Mayflower was attended by dis
tinguished company of more than $50,
including members of the Board OF
Trustees, Women's Guild faculty,
alumni and friends.
Six new members were elected to
the Board of Trustees of the university
at the semi-annual meeting OF the
board yesterday morning. They IN
clude Lewis G. Alderman of the United
States Office of Education, the first
alumni representative on the board;
Charles E. Allinger. prominent Detroit
manufacturer: Howard c. Baldwin,
we'll known attorney of Detroit; Fred
Brown, who was for Is years a ma
tional bank examiner; the Rev. Ivan
Lee Holt. clergyman of ST. Louis,
Mo-. and one of the outstanding pull
pit orators of the Southern Methodist
Church. and Bishop A. Frank Smith
of the Methodist Church South, Hous-
ton, Tex.
Named Chancellor Emeritus.
The Board of Trustees formally
elected DR. Clark. wh) had been chan
cellor and dean of the, graduate
school. to the post OF chancellor
emeritus.
DR.. Colder is a graduate OF Carle-
ton College, Mimi. and holds the
degrees of master of arts and doctor
of philosophy from Harvard Univer-
sitv. He is the author of several
articles on matters of literary scholar
ship. some of which are based upon
his studies in the British Museum
and other English libraries where he
carried on research on a Sheldon
Travelling Fellowship from Harvard.
The introduction of program OF
courses leading to advanced degrees
in English and expansion in the social
sciences were emphasized by Chan
cellor Gray. He called attention to
the fact that the American University
is one of % institutions in the United
States whose work for the doctorate
in political science is approved by the
American Council on Education. A
University Committee on Graduate
Studies, including DR.. Charles c. Tan
sill. DR. Delos o. Kinsman and DR..
Oswald Schreiner, will direct the new
schedule of advanced work.
School Explained.
Plans for the first session of the
School of Public Affairs. which will
extend from June 25 to August II,
were explained by DR.. Arnold Bennett
Hall. director Of the Institute of Gov
ernment Research at Brookings Insti-
tuition and advisory counsel for the
school. The session will be con-
Quoted as an Institute for the Study