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VALUABLE TEACHERS SECURED
FOR WISCONSIN.
STRONG ENGLISH STAFF
John w. Cunliffe of Cambridge Added
to Department of Literature
c. n. Halves, Another Cambridge
Man, Comes to Be Lecturer in An
thropology.
Madison, April -.

The faculty of the university IN its
| several departments and colleges has
been materially strengthened by the
| new appointments and promotions.
| The election of Professor John W.
| Cmliffe of Cambridge university TO
the chair of English literature and the
| promotions in the English depart
ment give that department three pro-
| tessors, one associate professor and
six assistant professors. The addition
| of G. H. Halves of Cambridge uni
versity as lecturer in anthropology
| provides for work in that important
| subject. In geology the addition OF
| Professor A. NJ. Winchell now OF
| the Montana school of mines, makes
| that department unusually strong,
with Professors G. X. Leith and n.
| M Fenneman in addition to President
| Van Hise The election of Professor
| Russell to the position Of dean of the
| college of agriculture is generally
| considered an excellent one, since
J Professor Russell has been connected
| with the college of agriculture for
| IA years and is thoroughly familiar
| with the agricultural conditions in
! Wisconsin.
DR.. John w. Cunliffe, who was APP
| pointed professor of English ltera-
ture, is at present associate profes
! sor of English at McGill university,
/ Montreal, and during the present
! semester has been lecturing at Co
| mmbia university He is a graduate
! of Owens college, Manchester, where
| he held the shakespeare scholarship
while studying under Professor A. w.
! Ward, a well known historian Of Eng
| fish drama, formerly principal of
! Owens college DR.. Cunliffe contin-
ued his studies in the University Of
| London, where he received his nNts-
| ters degree and afterwards his, doc
torate in 1892 Professor Cmliffe
has made a special study of Eliza
bethan drama. While holding the
Bishop Berkeley fellowship at Owens
| college he wrote an essay on The
| Influence of Senaca on Elizabethan
| Tragedy" which at once attracted az
ton because of its thorough charac-
| ter and keen critical insight. He
has edited Gascoigne's Supposes, and
JOcasta for the Bellies Bettres series
and also the complete works of Gas
coigne for the Cambridge university
| press. He is now engaged upon .
volume dealing with the English
| classical tragedy for the new Cam
bridge History of English Literature,
in II Volumes Other of his conri-
buttons to the study Of Elizabethan
drama have appeared in the publica-
tons of the Modern Language asso-
citation and in Modern Philology.
Professor A. NJ. Winchell, who has
been elected TO take charge of the
work in mineralogy and petregraphy,
is a native of Minnesota, and re-
| Ceived his early education in the
| schools of Minneapolis. He gradu-
ated with hOnors from the University
| of Minnesota in 1896, and the follow
| ing year received the degree of mas
tel' of sciences from his alma mater
| He continued his studies in Paris at
| College de france, the Ecola desi
Mines, and the University de Paris,
| receiving the doctors degree from
the last named institution in 1900
Upon returning to this country in
1900 he was chosen professor of geOl
ogy and mineralogy in the Montana
school OF mines at Butte. He has
fol 1iCh ut not
photographic laboratory modelled az
far as possible after similar labora-
tories of Paris. For the past five
years he has been in charge Of Stats
tical reports on the precious metal
production of Montana for the United
States geological survey. He was in
charge of the Montana mineral ex-
hibit at the st. Louis Exposition in
1904 and was director of all the Mon
tana EXHIBITS at Portland in 1905.
Prfessor Winchell has contributed q
number Of papers on geological sub
jects to the American Geologist and
the Transactions of the American
Institute of Mining Engineering.
Mr. L-awes of Cambridge unfyer-
sity, who was appointed lecturer in
anthropOlogy, has made extensive
studies in that subject. He has tray
eled widely in Europe, Asia and
, Ocianica. and made a particular study
of the tribes of Sakhalin, especially
of the social conditions Of the white
population Of that island. In 1894
Mr.. Halves was asked by the Cretan
committee Of the British association
to carry an authropological work in
Crete In the course of this work he
travelled over the entire island, and
made upwards Of $4,000 measure
ments of the inhabitants He is at
present engaged in studying these
data to ascertain what differences ex-
list in different parts of the island
and to compare physical characters
tics of modern and ancient Cretan
and neighboring people. Mr. HAYES
has lectured before tn British Asso-
citation, the Anthropological Institute
| of Great Britain. the Royal Scottish.
and other geographical societies OF
Great Britain, the Cambridge Anti
| quarian society, the Cambridge An
| thropological club, the American An
! thropological association, the Ameri-