TRIBUTE GIVEN TURNER BY STUDENTS AND FRIENDS

Tonight at 7 o'clock in the Harvard Club of Boston, many prominent history professors, and students, will gather at a banquet given as a farewell tribute to Professor Frederick Jackson Turner Hon. '09, professor of history, emeritus. Professor Turner, who has been at Harvard since 1910, is to withdraw from his work at the University, and return to his home in Portage, Wisconsin.

At the banquet tonight Dean Haskins, of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, will act as toastmaster. He will introduce as the representative of other universities, Professor Max Farrand, of the Department of History at Yale.

The next speaker on the program will be Professor Theodore Glarke Smith '92, of Williams, who will respond for the men who were students of Professor Turner at the University of Wisconsin, before he came to Harvard. For the men who have studied under Professor Turner while he has been in Cambridge, Mr. Verner Winslow Crane G'12, of Boston, will speak. The fourth speaker on the program will be Professor Allyn Abbott Young, of the Department of Economics. Professor Young will represent those men who have studied history under Professor Turner, but have later gone into other fields of activity.

During the evening, a portrait of Professor Turner, painted by Alexander James, of Dublin, N. H., will be presented to the University. This picture is the gift of the History Seminary of 1924, in collaboration with Turner students near Boston, and with members of the History Department at Harvard. The presentation will be made by James Phinney Baxter 3d 2G., of Belmont; and the portrait will be accepted for the University by Professor William Scott Ferguson, chairman of the Department of History.

Invitations to the banquet were sent to large numbers of former students of Professor Turner. Many of--these men were unable to come, and the messages which they have sent to Professor Turner, have flowed in from all over the country. Several of these letters will be read at the dinner tonight.

Professor Turner graduated from the University of Wisconsin in 1884. He studied later at Johns Hopkins, getting a Ph.D. degree in 1890. In 1909 he was given the Litt.D. degree by Harvard, and the next year he came to Cambridge as a professor of history.