WASHBURN COLLEGE

a co-educational institution, founded in 1865, in Topeka, Kans., by the Congregationalists, but now non-sectarian in policy. It was at first known as Lincoln College, but its present name was a umed in honor of Ichabod Washburn, of Worcester, Ma ., who gave $25,000 to its productive funds. It has a library containing 26,000 bound volumes. In 1922 it had a student enrollment of 969 and the members of the faculty numbered 50. an American jurist, born in Leicester, Ma . He was judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and in 1853-4 was governor of Ma achusetts. From 1856 to 1876 he was profe or of law at Harvard University. He wrote several works on American jurisprudence. Among these being, Treatise on Real Property. an American educator, b. in Middleboro, Ma . He graduated from Amherst College, in 1855, and from the And over Theological Seminary, in 1859. In 1868 he became a member of the faculty of Robert College, in Constantinople, Turkey. From 1870 until 1877 -he was acting president, after which he was president. He was regarded as a leading authority on modern conditions in the Near East and was often consulted by the diplomatic representatives of the United States in Constantinople,