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BOAKD O F TRUSTEES

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Department of Classics ALEXANDER TURYN, Professor of Classics, first semester, full pay; for a paleographical study of dated Greek manuscripts of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, work to be done in European countries. Department of English N U E L DAVIS, Assistant Professor of English, second semester, full pay; leave contingent upon receipt of a Guggenheim fellowship; to co-author biographies of scientists in nuclear and atomic research, Los Alamos, New York, Princeton, and Berkeley. ROYAL A. GETTMANN, Professor of English, first semester, full pay; to complete manuscript, to study Morley Roberts manuscripts, and to study relations between publishers and authors in nineteenth century England. P A U L N. LANDIS, Professor of English, full year, one-half pay; for writing and research on place of literature in universal education, work to be done in Urbana and in travel abroad. SHERMAN PAUL, Professor of English, second semester, full pay; for research on American Transcendentalism, study of the role of the intellectual in democratic society, and study of the conceptual basis for an open democratic society. ROBERT W . ROGERS, Professor and Head of the Department of English, full year, one-half pay; to complete a biography of Alexander Pope, work to be done in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and England. Department of French P H I L I P A. WADSWORTH, Professor of French, second semester, full pay; for studies of the reputation and influence of Francois de Malherbe, work to be done in France. Division of General Studies JAMES M. MCCRIMMON, Professor of Humanities and Head of Division of General Studies, full year, one-half pay; for construction of a standardized test of writing proficiency. Department of Geography J O H N H . GARLAND, Professor of Geography, second semester, full pay; for a series of geographic studies in the northland — Canada, Alaska, Pacific Northwest. Department of German JOHN R. FREV, Professor of German literature, and to H E N R I STEGEMEIER, Professor on German emblem books German, first semester, full pay; for research on consult German scholars and writers in Germany. of German, second semester, full pay; for research and study of current culture in Germany.

Department of History CLARENCE E. D A W N , Associate Professor of History, second semester, full pay; to write a history of the Near East since the rise of Islam. Department of Political Science FRANCIS G. WILSON, Professor of Political Science, second semester, full pay; to study the intellectual postulates of Congressmen, Washington, D.C. Department of Psychology LEO A. HELLMER, Professor of Psychology, first semester, full pay; to analyze data collected on child behavior and parent-child interaction patterns and to prepare several articles for publication. DONALD R. PETERSON, Associate Professor of Psychology, full year, one-half pay; for a study in Sicily of parent-child relationships which would parallel a local study. IVAN D. STEINER, Associate Professor of Psychology, full year, one-half pay; to conceptualize literature on recent social psychological investigations bearing upon group processes and productivity, study to be done in Urbana and at the University of Michigan and H a r v a r d University.