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 STUDENTS AND FACULTY 209 tive Religion and Ancient History; James H. Tufts, Assistant Professor of Philosophy; William D. MacClintock, Assistant Professor of English Literature; Starr W. Cutting, Assistant Pro- fessor of German; A. Alonzo Stagg, Director of Physical Culture; Robert F. Harper, Associate Professor of Semitic Languages and Literature; George C. Howland, Instructor of Romance Languages and Literature; Frank J. Miller, Instructor of Latin; Carl D. Buck, Assistant Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology; and Frederick Starr, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Five of these ten men President Harper found among those whom he knew at Yale. These were Mr. Goodspeed, later Recorder, Mr. Stagg, R. F. Harper, later acting Head of the Semitic Department, Mr. Buck, and F. J. Miller, later Examiner and Dean. Mr. Goodspeed died in 1905 and Mr. Harper in 1914. One of the inter- esting things about these appointments is that three of them were appointments to assistant professorships of men who later received promotion to the headship of their departments. These were Mr. Tufts, Mr. Buck, and Mr. Cutting. Mr. MacClintock had declined a college presidency to accept the Chicago appointment. Mr. Tufts came to the Department of Philosophy from the University of Michi- gan. He had been a student of Dr. Harper's at Yale and also in one of his summer schools. Mr. Buck was a Yale man commended to Dr. Harper in the autumn of 1890 by Professors Seymour, Whitney, Knapp, and others. In engaging these younger instructors, Dr. Harper was accustomed to draw up a contract which was signed by both parties. Varying somewhat with varying circumstances it was as follows: MEMORANDUM OF AGREEMENT BETWEEN W. R. Harper and Mr agrees to accept, if elected, the position of in at the salary of dollars a year, salary and service to begin W. R. Harper agrees to present the the name of Mr to the Board of Trustees for this appointment, and further to propose from time to time such advancement in salary and rank as is in proportion to the service rendered and the merits of research carried out. WILLIAM R. HARPER