Professor Gaillard Thomas Lapsley '93, has been appointed Fellow of Trinity College, and lecturer in history at the University of Cambridge, England. Professor Lapsley graduated from Harvard College in 1893 and was appointed assistant in history in 1895. Two years later, he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. He occupied the post of instructor in history in 1899, and shortly afterwards filled the same position at Leland Stanford University. Later he was appointed assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania.
Professor Lapsley will enter upon his duties at Cambridge next fall. His appointment is one of the highest distinctions ever conferred on an American by an English university.
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