Appoints Worcester

APPOINTS WORCESTER

HIS APPOINTMENT TO PHILIPPINES OFFICIALLY MADE.

He Will Be an Adviser of the Military Authorities as Well as a Geographical and Ethnological Expert.

The appointment of Prof. Dean C. Worcester to a government position in the Philippines has been officially announced, a Washington dispatch says:

The report that Prof. Dean C. Worcester, of Ann Arbor, had been appointed to a position in the United States service in the Philippines was today officially confirmed. Secretary Alger has decided to send Prof. Worcester to Manila as a sort of geographical and ethnological expert to act as an advisor to the military authorities. Prof. Worcester has prepared a long and elaborate report upon the entire Philippine group, incorporating in it the result of his personal observations in the islands. This document has been of much assistance to Secretary Alger, who is anxious that Gen. Otis and his staff should have the benefit of Prof. Worcester's knowledge.