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WILL EXPLAIN IMPORTANCE OF GEOGRAPHICAL DIVISIONS

Professor Turner Will Trace Formation of Compact Political Unit

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In his first Dowse Institute Lecture, given under the auspices of Harvard University this evening at eight o'clock at the New Lecture Hall, Professor F. J. Turner '09, Emeritus, of Harvard, will make use of a new method of showing the importance of geographical divisions in the making of American History. Professor Turner conceived and successfully put this method in practice in his history courses at the University.

It is the graphical representation by maps shaded to represent areas of political importance and strong party feeling. By use of these maps Professor Turner will clearly trace the development of sections, through early immigration, into compact political units. Thus transplanted New England ideas and possibly prejudices, he shows, are strongly focussed in certain sections of the west where pioneer stock settled half a century ago.

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