PROFESSOR LATTIMORE OF PEI YANG ADDED TO DARTMOUTH FACULTY

Announcement has been made of the addition to the curriculum at Dartmouth of courses in Far Eastern Civilization, and the election to the professorship on the faculty in direction of this work, of Professor David Lattimore of Pei Yang University, Tientsin, China.

Professor Lattimore has had wide experience with Chinese social customs and Chinese public affairs and has held important governmental posts as well as academic, both in the interior of China and at the treaty ports. He comes to Dartmouth possessed of intimate knowledge of the social, political and economic conditions in China, together with their historical and cultural background.

From 1901 to 1905 he was Professor of English and French at Nan Yang College, Shanghai. In 1905 he joined the staff of the Chihli Provincial College at Paotingfu, where he remained until 1913, when he went to the position since held at Pei Yang.

During the last two decades, likewise, he has been expert adviser and member of various governmental commissions.

Professor Lattimore is returning to America to take up his work at Dartmouth at the beginning of the second semester and to advise in regard to further elaboration of work in the curriculum having to do with Far Eastern affairs as relating to other nations than China.