F. J. Turner New Prof. of History

The President and Fellows have appointed Frederick Jackson Turner, Ph.D., now Professor of American History at the University of Wisconsin, Professor of History. He will begin his work as a member of the University next September.

Professor Turner graduated with honors from the University of Wisconsin in 1884, and after a year's work on the staff of the Milwaukee "Sentinel," returned to the university as Instructor in History and English. Here he remained until 1888, teaching and at the same time pursuing advanced work in history under the late Professor William F. Allen '51, one of the pioneers in the development of historical instruction in American universities. For later study, he received the degree of A.M. from Wisconsin in 1889, and the degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins in 1890. He has been at Wisconsin since the fall of 1889, first as Assistant Professor of History and for the last 18 years as Professor of American History.

Professor Turner has conducted courses, however, in other universities. In 1899-00 he was lecturer in history at the University of Chicago; in 1903-04 he spent half the year lecturing here; and in 1904 and 1908 he taught in the summer sessions of the University of California. In 1908 he received the degree of LL.D. from Illinois, and last month, at the Inauguration of President Lowell, he received the degree of Litt.D. In conferring the degree President Lowell referred to him as "a pioneer in American history, who has set forth in memorable pages the vast influence of Western expansion upon the civilization of our country."

He is first vice-president of the American Historical Society, and a corresponding member of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, the American Antiquarian Society, and the Illinois Historical Society. He has also been in great demand as a lecturer, and has given Phi Beta Kappa or similar addresses at the Universities of Nebraska, Kansas, Minnesota, Indiana, and other institutions.