News and Notes

Thomas S. Barclay of Stanford University will teach during the second summer session at the University of Washington.

Charles P. Beall, assistant professor of political science at the University of Wyoming, has been elected to the Laramie city council.

E. H. Carr of Cambridge University delivered the annual Pi Sigma Alpha address at the University of Utah April 16 on "The Asian Face of Bolshevism."

Clyde Eagleton of New York University served as visiting professor at the University of Washington during the spring quarter.

Ernest A. Engelbert of the University of California, Los Angeles, devoted one-half of his time during the spring semester to his duties as director of a research project, "The Impact of Urbanization upon Land and Water Use," financed by Resources for the Future, Inc., an affiliate of the Ford Foundation. Professor Engelbert is also serving as Executive Secretary of the California Citizens' Legislative Advisory Commission. The Commission was appointed by the California Legislature to study state legislative organization and operations and to make recommendations for their improvement.

Stewart L. Grow, chairman of the department of political science at Brigham Young University, has been promoted to a full professorship.

During the spring quarter Charles Hyneman of Indiana University, Arthur Holcombe of Harvard University, Fritz Morstein Marx of the Bureau of the Budget, and Victor Jones of the University of California, Berkeley, each visited the University of Washington for a two-week period and served as a lecturer and consultant in the area of his special interest.

Linden A. Mander of the University of Washington served as visiting professor at Stanford University during the spring quarter.

Robert G. Neumann of the University of California, Los Angeles, returned in mid-February from a six weeks' tour of Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria as a guest of those nations. Dr. Neumann subsequently published a series of articles in the Los Angeles Times on the situation in the Middle East.

Ralph M. Wade has been promoted to a full professorship at the University of Wyoming.

Ellsworth E. Weaver of the University of Utah has been promoted to the rank of professor and has been appointed Managing Editor of the Western Political Quarterly.