At a meeting of the Board of Overseers held on Tuesday the election of Robert Bacon '80, the present Ambassador to France, as a member of the Corporation was confirmed. Mr. Bacon's resignation of his post in Paris has been accepted by President Taft and will take effect as soon as a successor can be found.

Robert Bacon was born in Jamaica Plain, Mass., 5 July, 1860, the son of a former Boston merchant. He prepared for College at Hopkinson's School, in Boston, and entered and graduated with the class of '80. In College he was an athlete of distinction,--he was one of the captains of his freshman nine, captain of the University football team, and rowed on the University crew of 1880. At graduation he was elected first marshal of his class.

After a year spent in travelling Mr. Bacon went into the office of Lee, Higginson and Company, in Boston, where so many Harvard men have served their novitiate in business. In 1883 he joined the firm of E. Rollins Morse and Company, also bankers and brokers. In 1894 he went to New York to become a member of the firm of J. P. Morgan and Company, with which he remained until 1 January, 1902.

In 1905 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of State by his classmate, President Roosevelt; in 1909 from January 27 to March 6 he was Secretary of State. In December, 1909, he was appointed Ambassador to France; this ambassadorship he resigns in order to take service as Fellow.

Mr. Bacon was first elected Overseer in 1889, and he has been twice elected since, in 1895, and in 1901.