PARKMAN MADE ASSISTANT DEAN TO HELP LEIGHTON

Francis Parkman '19, of Boston, Assistant in the Department of History, has been appointed an Assistant Dean of Harvard College. With Assistant Dean Delmar Leighton '19, he will have change of the College records.

Mr. Parkman secured his degree in three years, graduating in 1918 with high honors. In his last year he also rowed on the victorious Harvard crew against Yale. After the graduation exercises, he enlisted as a private in the U. S. Marine Corps, obtained a commission as second lieutenant, and after service at Quantico, Virginia, was discharged in January, 1919. Mr. Parkman then spent several years in business, until in September 1926 he returned to the University to take up graduate work in history. He has been an assistant this year in History 1, in which capacity he will continue.