HORNBECK LEAVES FACULTY TO ACCEPT DIPLOMATIC POST

Announcement was made last night that Dr. S. K. Hornbeck, Lecturer on the History of the Far East at the University, had resigned in order to accept his recent appointment as Chief of the Division of Far Eastern Affairs in the Department of State at Washington.

Dr. Hornbeck is an authority on Far Eastern affairs. He taught in the Chinese Government Colleges from 1909 until 1913, and was Assistant Professor of Political Science from 1914 until 1917 and subsequently Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin.

He has attended sessions of the Institute of Pacific Relations, represented the United States Government in several important conferences, and in 1918-1919 was the technical expert on the Far Eastern Division of the American Commission to Negotiate Peace.