Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-03-24
Prof. Allen johnson Goes
To Yale in Fall,
Meeting Of York County Club
At D. U. House.
sewdoln Man Succeeding Finely
As Missionary In India.

ID uiis"ich, Me-, March 23.-(Spe-
ciaD.-The faculty at Yale is again
to gain while the faculty at Bowdoin
loses in the leaving of Allen Johnson
Ph.D., Professor of History and Po-
lllcal Science at Bowdoin since 1905
In the fall Professor Johnson is TO
take up his work as full professor OF
American History at Yale, the news
of his election to the chair of history
there having reached Brunswick TO-
day. Professor Johnson is generally
regarded as one of the most able
members of the faculty here and one
of the most prominent members of the
American Historical Association
AT Yale there are two other full
professors of History, one George B.
Adams, who will be associated with
Professor Johnson in Yale University
proper. He is to succeed Professor
Charles II. Smith who is about to re-
tire on Carnegie pension after hav-
ing been connected with Yale for the
past fifteen or sixteen years where
he went from Bowdoin. Professor
Johnson is to conduct two courses for
iht u 'tttlsilc anu
one in the school for graduate work
His work in the graduate school will
probably be along the lines of Politi-
cal Science and since they have never
had department of political science
at Yale is will proba bly, be Professor
JohnS0n's duty to organize the work
there during the coming year. 1t is
rumored that there is to be great de-
velopment in the History departments
of Yale and other big universities dur
ing the next few years and Professor
Johnson will have an active part in
this. Yale has taken a number of
faculty members away from Rowdoin
during the past fifteen years the list
including Professors Smith, Emery.
Collander. Fa;rchild and Johnson
Professor Johnson was born at Low
ell, Mass, January %. 1870. He fitted
at Lowell High school and graduated
from Amherst College in 1892. He was
sub-master in History in Lawrence
Vile school. \. j., from 1892 to 1894.
The next year he was Roswell Dwight
Hitchcock Fellow in History and Politi-
cal Science at Amherst. From 1895
to 1897 he studied at the University of
Politioues and Sarbonnc, at Paris.
He was Fellow in History at Colum-
bia University the next year and re-
cei"ed his degree of Ph.D from Column
bia in 1899. From 1898 to 1905 he held
the Drofcssorship of History in Iowa
College and left Iowa to come to Bow
doin. Since coming to Bowdo'n Pro-
fessOr Johnson has had published his
great work stephen A. Douglas,
study IN American Politics. This ap
peare6 in 1908 and during the past
year has been universally read and
commended by deep students of Am
erican History and politics. Professor
johnson is q member of the American
Historical Association. the Political
Science Association and the Historical
Society OF Maine. He is a member
of the Delta Kappa Epsilon and Phi
Beta Kappa fraternties.
During the five years that Professor
Johnson has been in Brunswick both
he end Mrs. Johnson have become
great social favorites and regret at
the news of his leaving coupled with
rejoicing at the news Of his splendid
offer was expressed generally here
today. Professor Johnson expressed
himself today as being very sorry to
have to leave Bowdoir and his pretty
home here and said that one of the
great attractions of the University to
him was that his work allowed him
plenty of time for his writing. The
work in the graduate school there will
also afford splendid opportunity to do
work on those lines for which he is
very DESTROYS.
Professor Wilmot p. Mitchell of the
English Department of Rowdoin Col
lege has announced that all Compeu-
tors for the Hawthorne Prize must
have their short stories in by May
16. The Hawthorne Prize of forty DOL
lars is given annually by Mrs. George
C. Riggs CKate Douglass Wiggin) of
New York for the best short story
written by Seniors. Juniors or Sopho-