PROMINENT DARTMOUTH ALUMNUS DECORATED BY FRANCE

Charles Downer Hazen '89, Professor of History at Columbia University, has received from the French Government the decoration of Chevalier de la Legion d'Honneur.

An announcement sent out from the university said that the decoration was conferred in recognition of Prof. Hazen's "distinguished contributions to a knowledge and better understanding of France and the French people through the publication of his books on European history and on Alsace-Lorraine, and in recognition of his services in promoting closer relations between the French and the American people.

Prof. Hazen spent the academic year 1920-21 conducting courses at the University of Strasbourg, just reorganized under French auspices. He was active also in lecturing in Paris and other places in France.

Prof. Hazen was born in Barnet, Vt., in 1868 and was graduated from Dartmouth in 1889, studying later at Johns Hopkins and the Universities of Gottingen, Berlin and Paris. He received his Ph. D. from Johns Hopkins in 1893. He has received an L. H. D. from Hobart and Litt. D. from Dartmouth.