The Wichita daily eagle., 1896-12-15
coLEeE-sRep PRESIDENTS
dcKtnley Not One of Them-He Was n
Sevontooa when He Enlisted.

acKtnlsy Not One OF TAem-He Was ~
seventesa when He Enlistea-
Mckinley, like his predecessor in ths
presidential Office, IS not college grad
uste. Mr.. Cleveland was prepared for
Hamilton college, but never entered
Mckinley entered Allegheny college, a.
Meadville, Pa, at the age of 16, and was
there initiated into a Greek letter fra
ternity. He left college before a year
had elasped, on account OF his health,
and did not return, but taught coun-
try school at Poland, his birthplace, un-
til the war broke out, when at II, he en-
listed as a private. McKinley's uni
versity was the tented field. His cam
pus was the Campus Martius. His
diploma was a majors commission,
signed by the hand that wrote the
emancipation proclamation. He will
soon receive from another institution,
the electoral college, degree such as
has been conferred upon only % other
citizens of this great republic. After
his return from the war Mckinley took
the full course at the Albany law
school, which is one of the graduate de-
partments of Union college.
A large majority OF our presidents
have been oollege-bred men. Washing
ton, while not strictly college man,
yet had received from William and
Mary college, in 1919, an appointment
as surveyor, which was the equivalent
of a modern degree in civil engineer
ing, it being then the law in Virginia
that no one could practice surveying
until he had been examined by the
faculty of William and Mary, and had
received a certificate of proficiency.
Later in life he received the honorary
degree of L. D., from Harvard, in 1776;
from Yale in 1Ts1: from the University
of Pennsylvania and Brown university
in 1890. A still greater scholastic dis
tinction was conferred on DR.. Wash
ington, in 17Ss, when he was elected
chancellor of the College of William and
Mary, his quasi alma matter. an Office
which he held with pride until the day
of his death.
Washington's five immediate success
sors were college graduates. John
Adams and his son, John Quincy
Adams, were Harvard men. Jefferson
and Monroe were graduates of William
and Mary, while Madison hailed from
Princeton. Jackson had little educa-
ton of any sort, and Van Buren, his
successor, only a good academic educa-
ton. William Henry Harrison gradu-
ated at Hampden-Sidney college; Ty-
ler at William and Mary. and Polk at
the University of North Carolina. Tay-
lor had only the merest rudiments of
an education, and Fillmore, his success
sor, had an academic education only.
Franklin Pierce was graduate OF Bow
doin, and Buchanan of Dickinson. Lin
coin and Johnson were both self-edu-
Gated, neither having had even high
school education. Grant was West
Pointer; Hayes an alumnus of Kenyon;
Garfield of Williams, and Arthur of
Union From Washington to McKin-
ley, therefore, including Washington
and Grant. Is of the 25 may be called
college-bred men.
While President Cleveland Is not q
college man, Mrs. Cleveland is co..
lege woman, being a graduate of Wells
college, at Aurora, in this state,
class of 's4. His right-hand man in the
cabinet, Dan Lamont, secretary OF
war, is a graduate of Union. as is also
Secretary Morton, of the department Of
agriculture. Olney is a Harvard man.
Carlisle and Herbert are not college
r,en. Postmaster General Wilson Is
not only college-bred man, but has
been president of West Virginia uni
versity.-N. Y. Mail and Express.