PROF. BURTON APPOINTED TO ACADEMY IN ROME

Prof. Harry E. Burton, Daniel Webster professor of the Latin language and literature, has been appointed annual professor- in the school of classical studies of the American Academy in Rome for the year 1927-1928. The appointment confers high honor upon Professor Burton and the college.

Professor Burton will take up his lectures there next October, thirty-two years since the time when he formed one of the group of American scholars who were the charter members of this center of archaeological research abroad. He spent this year, 1895-1896, in Rome. The following year he was appointed instructor in Latin at Dartmouth. In 1897—98 he was again in Rome for a further year of research. After his return to America he contributed to several magazines, especially to the American Journal of Archaeology. In 1903 he was called to give lectures in the Graduate School of Harvard University, during a leave of absence. He has been on the Dartmouth faculty, with these intermissions, since 1896.

Professor Burton is widely known through his books, which cover the field of college and preparatory work in Latin, being author of "Selections from Livy," "Latin Grammar," "The Eneid of Vergil," and "Aspects of College and University Administration." He is moderator of the town of Hanover and has been justice of the Municipal. Court for the past 16 years.