Item D36 - MS notes by Benians on a report on the Chair of American history (?)

What faculty Chair be assigned to? What studies Chair be associated with? Should mention: national need for persons adequately instructed in American history to increase knowledge in the subject, attempt of History Board to assist in supplying this need by introducing subject into Tripos and to provide proper teaching of it. Suggests changes to text of report. Council seem not so much to want to establish on sound basis teaching of American history here as to promote general interest in things American. B feels Chair not have great reputation among historians in America if it filled at times by non-historians - it become Chair for almost any visiting American scholar.