Evening Star Newspaper, December 2, 1932, Page 35

HARVARD SEEKS NEW PRESIDENT Successor to Lowell to Be Chosen Before Next June. Spectal Dispatch to The Star. BOSTON, December 2 (N.ANA)— The king is dead! Long live the king! Who will be picked to succeed Dr. A. Lawrence Lowell, who has resigned as president of Harvard? The office, inci- dentally, is the second oldest in_the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. It is antedated only by that of Governor. Presidential elections in Cgmbridge have not always run smoothly or turned out well. Occasionally great men have turned out to be very mediocre presi- dents, _Sometimes the faculty, some- times the student body, once the corpo- ration, forced presidents to resign. Henry Dunster had to resign when be turned Baptist. At the time, it was against the laws of the Commonwealth for any one but an out-and-out Puri- tan to hold any office in the Common- wealth. Every effort was made to per- suade Dunster to recant, but he stuck firm to his new creed and was forced to Tesign. Leonard Hoar resigned after friction with the tutors who resented his elec- tion and thought that one of their own number should have been elevated to the job, Refused to Live There. Increase Mather was president in fact for quite a number of years, but he was & problem. He refused to live in Cam- bridge. Finally a law was passed mak- ing it mandatory for the president to Teside in Cambridge. Rather than move there, Increasc Mather resigned. Cambridge apparently was not very highly regarded as a presidential com- munity in those days, for the next two presidents of Harvard, Charles Morton and Samuel Willard, were able to bear only the title of “acting president” because, they, too, refused to live in Cambridge. The Raincoat Sets The liberal tradition at Harvard started with the next president, John Leverett, who came to the post after having followed experience as a_tutor . at Harvard with a carcer as a lawyer and judge. With Samuel Webber, who was in- sugurated in 1806, the first of a line of Unitarian presidents was started. Elec- tions in those days, and even up to the election of Charles W. Elict in 1869, were tied up closely with religion. While Yale was remaining firmly Congrega- tionalist, Harvard went liberally Uni- tarian. John Thornton Kirkland, who ranks with Dunster, Leverett, Quincy, Eliot and Lowell on the list of the great presidents of Harvard, was nevertheless forced to resign after a feud with the Harvard Corporation. His successor, Josiah Quincy, had been a member of gress and mayor of Boston, and a noted Federalist, and he gave Harvard one of its most able administrations. Unitarian Clergymen. He was followed by two great men, Edward Everett and Jared Sparks, both of whom had begun their careers as Unitarian clergymen. Everett had served in Congress, been Governor of the Commonwealth, and minister to the Court, of St. James by the time he was elected president at Harvard. He was not very successful and did not like the Job. f Jared Sparks, a great historian, found that he, too, was not happy in the pres- jdency. In the second half of the nine- teenth century agitation among a small group for increased attention to the new sciences gradually developed. Corpelius C. Felton, wao had been a professor of Greek, was president of the ooliége from 1860 untib.his death in 1862, The ggitation for, more sciences and fess classics and' religion grew a little stronger, with the result that the next man chosen by the corporation Tepresented a compromise. Thomas Hill, successor to the classi- cist, Felton, and predecessor to the chemist, Eliot, was a minister. He had | been president, not oversuccessfully, of Antioch College. His, incidentally, was the sole instance whereby Harvard chose the president of another college to take that job in Cambridge. Charles W. Eliot, who had been sort ofsecretary to Hill's predecessor in the president’s chair, James Walker, was probably as well juformed about the af- fairs of the university as any other man. He was young—only 34. He had just published in the Atlantic Monthly what ‘appeared at the time to be radical arti- cles on education. He was a layman - and, what was more, a scientist. He was teaching at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. All these things were sources of worry to the Board of Overseers, which is made up of 30 alumni and the president and treasurer of the university. Dr. Eliot had strong supporters, however, and the corporation finally elected him, Ppresident, ‘The man who succeeded him was A. Lawrence Lowell of the department of Next June, when his res- xpected to go into effect, 1l become president emer- The students in Cambridge will miss seeing his slightly stooped figure in the yard. ‘What qualifications must be looked for in the next man to be chosen to succeed Dr. Lowell? -An ideal man for the job isn't living and he never will be born. The combination of the quali- ties of shrewd business man and sound scholar, of diplomat and forceful execu- tive and of youth and experience is difficult to find in one man. Dean Kenneth B. Murdock of the fac- ulty of arts and sciences is the most talked-of candidate, largely because of his rapid rise at Harvard. He is only 37, but at that is older than Eliot was when he was named. Others Considered. Other young men whose names have me to the forefront recently include ancis Parkman, '18, headmaster of 8t. Marks; Charles P. Curtis, jr., '14, gungest member of the corporation; of. Samuel Eliot Morison, '08, noted New England historian; Prof. G. Harold [Edgell, '09, of the Pine Arts Department; Bdward M. Pickman, '08, a little known scholar of much potential strength; James Buell $unn, ’12, former assistant dean of New York University, who has yecently returned to the English depart- ent at Harvard; Assistant Prof. iward A. Whitney, °17; Leverett Saltonstall, *14, speaker of the Massa- chusetts house; Ogden L. Mills, '04, present Secretary of the Treasury, and Glarence Cook Little, '10, former presi- dent of Michigan and Maine. Pajama Ensembles 3-piece rayon S OIS ets. Bizes 8 to 16. Jr. High Silk Frocks Rough s511ks 95 or crepe de . chine. 10-16. ’ e ’ Boys’, Girls Thousands of pairs including such nationally known %, % and 74 lengths. colors and scores of patterns and color combina- o TRERRTIR 0 LI00 it emmin s s brands as Phoenix. Among the older men the list includes | . #uéh men as the members of the corporation: Prof. Julian L. 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