PROF. TURNER TO RETIRE

Professor Frederick J. Turner of the history department at the University will retire from active teaching a year from next September, assuming at that time the title of professor emeritus.

Professor Turner graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1884, took his A.M. degree there in 1888 and his Ph.D. degree at Johns Hopkins in 1890. He taught at Wisconsin until 1910 when he came to the University as professor of history. He is the holder of several honorary degrees, including that of Litt.D. from the University (1909), and is recognized as one of the leading authorities on American history, particularly the history of the western frontier. He is the author of "The Rise of the New West" (1906) and "The Frontier in American History" (1920). He is a member of many learned societies, and during the year 1910-11 served as president of the American Historical Association. His retirement from the University teaching staff will take effect September 1, 1924.

Robert Amory '06, Boston commission merchant, has been appointed a member of the University Committee on Economic Research to take the place left vacant by the death of Col. Nicholas Biddle '00, of New York. The Committee on Economic Research directs the work of the Harvard Economic Service, which undertakes surveys and forecasts of fundamental business conditions. Hermann F. Clarke '05 has been appointed a member of the University Infantile Paralysis Commission.