Stanford’s Staff of Instructors Give Many of Their Number to Service Changes are numerous in the ranks of the Stanford University faculty with the opening of the new year. The world war has claimed a large num ber, although absences, resignations and new additions have considerably altered the instructing staff. Leave of absence has been granted to Professor EF. Whitney Martin of the Greek department for the first quarter. He is serving as a field di rector of the Red Cross at Linda Vista. Professor C. B. Wing of the Engineering department, is major in an engineering corps at Vancouver. The Fourth Stanford Ambulance unit, stationed at Allentown, Pa., claims Professor S. S. Seward of the English department. Dr. H. R. Stolz, medical head at the gymnasium, has received a first lieutenant’s commis sion in the army. He will be suc ceeded by Dr. W. L. Adams. Thomas L. Dyer, law librarian, is now a cap tain in the national army, into which John F. Connell, instructor of Bac teriology, was also drafted. Professor hk. W. Smith, head of the Journalism Department, is employed in the inter ests of the food conservation cam paign under Herbert C. Sloover in Washington, D.C. The Medical School has lost Dr. Langley Porter, (Continued on page four)