PROF. A. H. WASHBURN MINISTER TO AUSTRIA

Professor Albert H. Washburn, of the Department of Political Science, has been appointed by President Harding as United States Minister to Austria, according to a recent announcement and will leave Hanover about April 1, to take up residence in Vienna.

Professor Washburn has had a career which thoroughly justifies his selection. During his stay at Cornell University, from which he graduated in 1889, he was the private secretary to the president of the college. For three years, from 1890 to 1893, he was connected with the United States consul at Magdeburg, Germany.

Professor Washburn was private secretary to Senator Lodge for the next three years, and during that time the two became very intimate friends and have continued as such ever since. Meantime the professor studied law and practiced it in New York City, specializing in customs cases. He is now president of the Customs Bar Association and has been a prominent figure at all bar conventions during the past few years. He came to Dartmouth in 1919 as a professor of Political Science department.

During the last presidential campaign Professor Washburn was an active supporter of Mr. Harding. He rendered material assistance to the local Republican organization, securing prominent speakers for addresses before the undergraduate body.