”In History, Professor Max Farrand has resigned to accept the chair of American History at Yale University. Professor Ephraim D. Adams now becomes executive head of the department. Associate Professor Clyde A. Duniway was promoted to the rank of Professor of American History. He has resigned to accept the presidency of the University of Montana, at Missoula, into which position he was inaugurated on October 5, 1908. Professor Arley B. Show remains absent for study in Europe. To fill these vacancies, the following temporary appointments have been made for the current year: Dr. Sedley L. Ware, to be instructor in Mediaeval History; and Dr. John H. Blair, to be instructor in American History. Instructor Ware holds the Ph. D. degree from Johns Hopkins, and Instructor Blair from Harvard. Dr. Percy A. Martin has been made instructor in modern European History. Instructor Martin is a graduate of Stanford with the class of 1902, and holds the Doctor’s degree from Harvard. Besides these, the following temporary appointments as acting professors have been made: Professor Jesse Macy, of Iowa College, and Professor James A. Woodburn, of University of Indiana. They will give courses during the second semester in American History, pending the permanent filling of the vacancies in the department, leave of absence from their home institutions having been granted them for this purpose.”

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Annual Report of the President, by Stanford University, 1904, pages 13-4