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Still in the throes of re-conversion, the History Department filled two of its empty chairs last week by the appointment of Clarence Crane Brinton '19 to the McLean Professorship in Ancient and Modern History, and Frederick Merk, chairman of the Department, as Gurney Professor of History and Political Science...
...Merk Succeeds Merriman...
Professor Merk well-known to undergraduates as part of the Schlesinger-Merk-Buck team which teaches History 5, is the successor of two of the University's most famous historians. His immediate predecessors were the mediaevalist Charles Homer Haskins '08 and Roger Bigelow Merriman...
Professor Merk has written "Fur Trade and the Empire" and collaborated with F. J. Turner on "A List of References on the History of the West...
Notable additions here are Professor Frederick Merk's History 62a, "The History of the Westward Movement to 1840," and Dr. Oscar Handlin's History 66, "The Immigrant in American History." The latter "deals with the origin and development of national groups in the United States from the Revolution to the present with particular emphasis on the problems arising out of the contact of diverse cultures...