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NOTESTEIN TO JOIN CORNELL HISTORY STAFFComes Here As Professor of English History from University of Minnesota.RECEIVED PH.D. AT YALEHas Spent Many Summers in England Making Research into 17th Century History.AT PEACE CONFERENCEWas Called to Paris Last Year As Expert on Historical Aspect of Alsace-Lorraine.Wallace Notestein, now professor of English history at the University of .Minnesota, has been elected professor of English history ut Cornell, the appointment to take effect in September.Prof. Notestein was born in 1879 in Wooster, Ohio, lie went to Wooster College, where his father is professor of Latin, and was graduated with the degree of M. A. From there he went .to Yale and took his Ph. D. there in’ 1308. lLis “History of the Decline of Witchcraft in England which lie- wrote while there was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams prizo of tho American Historical Association in 100ft.Has Stndicd in England Since that tlmo Professor Notestein has been teaching at Minnesota and has spent many summers in England pursuing special investigations of the history of England in the seventeenth century. In 191S-1910 he was in Washington working for the Committee on Public Information, and among other things ho prepared the well known compilation entitled “Conquest and Kultur. During 1918-1910 he was connected with the Colonel House inquiry, his special field being Alsace-Lorraine, and in January of ’be latter year bo was called to Paris to serve as an expert on that subject.During his many visits to England. Professor Notestein has acquired a peculiarly intimate knowledge of contemporary political and social conditions In that country, and his Interest In present day politics is evidencod by tho number of articles of a high order, of inert which ho has published, such, for example as that on Jan Smuts which appeared in tho Atlantic Monthly for July, 1918.Enthnslastlc Teacher In connection with his special studies of the seventeenth century, Professor Notestein has published a number of articles which reveal liis mastery of the sources of his subject as well as his competence as a technical scholar. To the work of teaching ho brings not only his excellent knowledge but also great euthus asm for the subject and a human interest in his pupils. As a teacher of both undergraduate and graduate students lie has won the highest recognition ut Minnesota; and in the historical pro-lession generally he is regarded as one of the best of the younger men in the field of English history.TRIP AROUND THE WORLD DESCRIBED BY ALUMNAMrs. Greenbie ’12 Says Adventure Is No Longer Exclusive Prerogative of Man.A scries of travel sketches, entitled “The World is Hers.' by Mrs. Marjorie B. Greenbie '12, are appearing in the Green Book Magazine and has as a theme that “like tho vote, adventure is no longer a masculine prerogative She demonstrates this statement by accouuts of her experiences during the war in remote corners of the world.While in Cornell. Mrs. Greenbie, whose maiden name was Marjorie L. Barstow, wrote the pageant Urania,” which was given by the women of the University iu the spring of 1912. She has continued in pageantry work and her trip, which is described in “Thlt;-World is Hers was taken for the purpose of collecting material for pageants.Mrs. Grcenbie's husband is also au author und wanderer, his articles appearing in Harper’s Weekly. North American Review, and other prominent periodicals.WINTER PARTY PLANS- DISCUSSED TONIGHTTho nlneteon undergraduates who will bo iu charge of tho shows and booths at tho Cornell Winter Party will moot with W. IT. Colvin ’20. of the committee, at 2 Central avenue, at |r
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