Born. To Secretary & Mrs. Jay Pierrepont Moffat of the U. S. Legation at Berne, Switzerland; a daughter, Edith Alice Pierrepont. Mrs. Moffat is the daughter of Joseph Clark Grew, U. S. ambassador to Turkey.

Engaged. John Kirtland Colgate, son of Russell Colgate (soap company director); and Miss Florence Viola Manuel; at Stockton, Calif.

Engaged. Lita Grey Chaplin, musicomedy actress, onetime wife of Cineman Charles Spencer Chaplin; and Phil Baker, accordion-playing funnyman; at Milwaukee.

Appointment disclosed. Calvin Coolidge of Northampton, Mass.; Julius Rosenwald of Chicago; and Alfred Emanuel Smith of Manhattan; to be the

Protestant, Jewish and Roman Catholic directors of a charity fund of between $8,000,000 and $9,000,000 described in the will of the late Conrad Hubert, flashlight manufacturer.

Elected. Calvin Coolidge; to be president of the American Antiquarian Society (general historical objects).

Resigned. Curtis C. Cooper; from the presidency of General Motors Acceptance Corp. and the chairmanship of General Exchange Insurance Corp., to be succeeded in both positions by John J. Schumann Jr., vice president of the Acceptance Corp.

Birthday. John Dewey, most famed U. S. pedagog-philosopher; in Manhattan. Age: 70. For three days he listened to fellow pedagog-philosophers gathered by a national committee around Columbia University, speak on "John Dewey's influence in the Schools," "John Dewey's Influence on Education in Foreign Lands," "The Philosophy of John Dewey," "John Dewey in Social Welfare."

Died. Leon Delacroix, onetime (1919-20) Belgian prime minister; at Baden-Baden, Germany; of heart disease.

Died. Mrs. Rita de Acosta Lydig, 53, once beauteous Manhattan & Paris socialite, divorced wife of the late Wendell E. D. Stokes, widow of Col. Philip M. Lydig (Spanish war hero); of pernicious anaemia; in Manhattan. In 1921 she attracted widespread comment by announcing her engagement to Dr. Percy Stickney Grant, famed "Radical" cleric. Dr. Grant was forbidden to marry her by Bishop William Thomas Manning, because she was a divorcee. In 1924 she broke the engagement, "not wishing to ruin Dr. Grant's career." When he died within the year, he left her an estate of some $65,000, which, being bankrupt, she sorely needed.

Died. Edwin Emery G. Slosson, 64, onetime (1891-1903) professor of chemistry in Wyoming, author Creative Chemistry, director of Publisher Edward Wyllis Scripps' Science Service (news syndicate); at Washington; of heart disease. His wife, May Preston Slosson, poetess, was Cornell's first woman Ph. D. "To get even with her" he studied several summers for a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. He was the fountain head of the modern school of journalized science, making abstruse scientific processes into simple stories.

Died. Mrs. Julia Graustein, 72, of Cambridge, Mass., mother of President Archibald Robertson Graustein of International Paper & Power Co.; at Cambridge, Mass.

Died. John Hemingway Duncan, 76, architect, designer of Grant's Tomb and Trenton (N. J.) Battle Monument; of heart disease; at Highland Beach, N. J.

Died. Benjamin A. Armstrong, 85, board chairman of Corticelli Silk Co., president of New London National Bank of Commerce; at New London, Conn.