Lattimore Elected Emeritus

PROFESSOR DAVID LATTIMORE, who has been teaching courses in Chinese and Far Eastern Civilization here since 1922, has been elected a professor emeritus of the College, his retirement to become effective at the close of the present academic year, July 1. The action was taken at the spring meeting of the Board of Trustees.

Professor Lattimore, whose son, Owen Lattimore, is President Roosevelt's personal representative as economic and political advisor to Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, is considered an expert on Chinese affairs. In 1902-03 he served as secretary to the American Commission in the negotiation of a commercial treaty with China, and was decorated by the Chinese government with the Imperial Order of the Double Dragon. He taught in colleges in Shanghai, Paoting and Tientsin, China,,for twenty years before coming to Dartmouth in 1922 as professor of Far Eastern Civilization.