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IN THE GRADUATE SCHOOLS

Professors Gras, Haas, and Lewis to Take Office Next Fall

Three new men, all graduates of colleges other than Harvard, will assume professorships in the Harvard Graduate School of Business next September. They are Norman Scott Brien Gras, Howard Thompson Lewis, and Auton de Haas.

Professor De Haas graduated from Stanford University in 1910, received his A. M. at Harvard in 1912 and his Ph. D. at Stanford in 1915. After instructing at Stanford, he taught at the University of Texas. Subsequently he was a Professor at Ohio State University and at the University of Washington. For the past six years, he has been Professor of Foreign Trade at New York University. He is now a Lecturer at the Harvard Business School and on September 1 he will become Professor of Foreign Trade.

Professor Gras, who will become Professor of Business History at the Harvard Business School next September, graduated from Western University, Canada, in 1906, and received his A.M. and his Ph.D. from Harvard. He taught at Clark College and was for two years a lecturer at Harvard. Soon after becoming an Associate Professor at Clark University, Professor Gras went to the University of Minnesota as Professor or Economic History, which chair he now holds.

Professor Lewis who, on September 1, will become Professor of Marketing at the Business School, is a graduate of Lawrence College, and received his A. M. at the University of Wisconsin. He taught at Hiram College and then went to the University of Idaho as Professor of Economics. In 1920 he went to the University of Washington where, since 1923, he has been Dean of the College of Business Administration.

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