LAW SCHOOL GETS TABLET IN MEMORY OF WASHBURNE

A bronze tablet, given in memory of Elihu Benjamin Washburne by members of his family, has been placed in the north wing of the Law School library in Langdell Hall.

Washburne graduated from the Law School in 1839, after which time he distinguished himself as a member of Congress-from 1852 until 1869, and as Minister to France during the years 1869-77, in the height of the Franco-Prussian war, when Paris itself was threatened by the enemy.