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Among the speakers at tomorrow's opening session of the New York Herald Tribune's Ninth Annual Forum on Current Problems will be President Conant and Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government...
Also named was Henry Nash Smith, Freshman American Civilization Counselor, who has been chosen executive secretary of the Plan. This office is a new one, while Malone succeeds to the post vacated by Paul Buck, associate professor of History, who resigned one month ago upon his appointment as an assistant dean of the faculty...
...new chairman has long been associated with the study of American history and culture. Before becoming director of the Harvard Press in 1936. Malone was editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography, and prior to that, professor of History at the University of Virginia. He has also been a member of the faculty and Sterling Fellow at Yale, from which he holds three degrees...
...choosing two such capable leaders as Dumas Malone and Henry Nash Smith, President Conant has given the American Civilization Plan a new lease on life. After drifting along without unified direction since Professor Buck's resignation as chairman a month ago, the Plan is at last in efficient hands. Those hands have a clear task ahead of them, for they must resuscitate an idea which has all but perished from administrative neglect and unfavorable publicity...
...Harvard Press as chairman of the American Civilization Plan is no doubt surprising to many, those familiar with Dr. Malone's record can only appland the selection. As historian, professor, and editor-in-chief of the Dictionary of American Biography, he has amply qualified himself for his new status...