POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY TO BE SUBJECT OF LECTURES

The first of a series of five lectures dealing with the significance of sectionalism in the history of the United States will be given on Wednesday evening, November 5 at 8 o'clock by Professor Emeritus Frederick Jackson Turner Hon. '09, under the auspices of the Dowse Institute.

The subject of the first lecture will be "Regional Geography and American Sections to 1830". The titles and dates of the remaining four lectures dealing with sectionalism in America are as follows; November 7, "The Making of the Eastern Sections, and their early Relations"; November 10, "Sectional Divisions"; November 12, "Party Divisions and Sections"; November 14, "Recent Sectionalism; Bloc and Class Conflict".

To Explain Bloc Influence

The lectures are especially designed to explain the growth of sectionalism and of "bloc" influence in the politics of the country, and will show the effect of geography on the present presidential election.

Professor Turner, who is to give the lecture course, is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a recognized authority on the waves of immigration which created the "New West" of America.

When he has completed his Cambridge lectures, Professor Turner will return to Wisconsin to complete his new book which, like his lectures, deals with the influence of westward immigration on the political and economic history of the country.

The Dowse Institute under the auspices of which the lecture series is being given, was founded many years ago by Thomas Dowse, wealthy Cambridge leather merchant and book binder. It the early years of the Institute, the lectures were conducted by widely known speakers such as Emerson, Lowell, and Wendell Phillips. During the war, the lectures were discontinued, but they were revived two years ago, and Professor George Lyman Kittredge of Harvard and Professor Glover of Cambridge University, England, were the lecturers for the past two series.