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LECTURER IN INTERNATIONAL LAW APPOINTED

February 1919
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LECTURER IN INTERNATIONAL LAW APPOINTED
February 1919

Albert H. Washburn, Esq., of Middleboro, Mass., and New York City, has been secured as lecturer in International Law at Dartmouth College for the third term of the present academic year.

Mr. Washburn's previous work makes him peculiarly fitted to conduct these courses.

He graduated at Cornell in 1889, and during his undergraduate course served as private secretary to President Andrew D. White. After graduation lie entered the consular service and was United States Consul at Magdeburg, Germany, from 1890 to 1893. For the three following years he was occupied as private secretary to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge. During this time he studied law and graduated from Georgetown University Law School in 1895. From 1897 to 1901 he was Assistant United States Attorney for the district of Massachusetts. For the three following years he was special counsel to the United States Treasury in customs cases, and since 1904 has been engaged in private practice with an office m New York, specializing in customs cases. He is at present President of the Association of Customs Bar.

In 1896 Mr. Washburn was a delegate to the Republican National Convention from Massachusetts and in 1917 he was a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, being recognized as one of its best informed and influential members.

He begins his work at Dartmouth in April,