The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-12-07
YALE.S PRSIDENCY.
Available Graduates at the Head of
 Other Universities.

of considerable interest. The Yale Alumni Weekly gives the following list of Yale graduates who are or were pres | idents of colleges, and the selection may be made from them:
 1 Rev. Edward Dafydd Morris, D. D., IL. D., is the president of Lane semi nary, Cincinnati, o. He was c,ass- mate of President Dwight, graduating from the academic department in lS49
 Until within a few months, when he resigned, President Martin Kellogg, M. A., IL. D., B. A., Yale 5O was head of the University of California, Berkeley Cal This university was founded in 1868, and has now an enrolment of about 2,5OO students.
 Dr. Daniel Colt Gilman, M. A., '52 has been president of Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, Md, since tie opening of the university in 1876. William Preston Johnson, IL. D', Yale '52, a classmate of President Gill man. was in like manner the first presi- dent of Tulane university, New Or leans, La, This university began under it's present title in 1883, though it's ear Iliest department dates from 1884. h. struction is now given to over 2,000 stu | dents.
 pr. Cyrus Northrup. 57, is the pres- dent of the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis During the fourteen yelrs of his presidency the university has grown from three colleges to eight, and from less than three hundred students to nearly three thousand.
 Rev. Augustus Hopkins Strong, D D., IL. D., who presides over the Roches- ter Theolc gical seminary, Rochester, N Y, was cassmate of President Nor thrup and graduated from Yale in 1857
 Rev. Samuel Henry Lee, M. A., presl- dent of the French-Amercan college, Springfield, Mass, graduated from the academic department with the class of 5S.
 Rev. Horace Bumstead, D. D. is one } of three college pres dents from the : class of 63. He presldss ovr Atlanta } university, Atlanta, Ga. This university was opened in 1889 and now has mem bership of about three hundred stu dents.
 George Washington Atherton, M A., IL. D., who was graduated from Yale in 1863, is the president of Pennsylvania
 State college, State College, Pa.
 Rev David Rranerd Perry, M. A., a
 member of Yale '63 is president of Doana college, Crete, Neb. He also
 graduated from the Yale Divinity | school in 1867.
 , Rev. Marshall Richard Gaines. M A.. B. A., Yale '65, accepted the presid ncy of Tilotsson college, Austin, Texas, in 7 1396 He was also a member of the , class of '74, Theological school. < Rev. William Gardiner Sperry, D. D. B. A., '69, presides over Olivet college
 Olivet, Mich skPhis college dates iron , 1859 and has an enrolment of about 25C students.
 Austin Scott, NJ A., Ph. D., ILL. D. , another member of the class of 69, is , the president of Rutgers college, New , Brunswick, N J. Rutgers is one of the oldest American colleges, having b2er
 established by royal charter in TITO.
 Rev James Gore King Mcclure, D
 D., B. A., Yale 70. is the president oi
 Lake Forest university, Lake Forest a H., which received it's charter in 1857
 and now has about POD students en o rolled.
 Rev. Hollis Burke F'rissell, "A, be- 5 came president of Hampton Institute = Hampton. Va, in 1893 The institute s waa founded in 1868, and now numbers q about 1,000 students.
 . Rev. George Edwin MacLean, M. A. " Ph D., B. A., Yale "A is chancellor ot i, the University of Nebraska, Lincoln . Neb. This university has been founded = seventeen years, and has m 4mbershil ', at present of about HOO.
 William Ranley Harper, D. D., IL
 D., Ph. D., Yale '75, was elected presi :, dent of Chicago university, Chicago :, H., at it's organization in 1890. Ore 6 two thousand students are now recelv < ing instruction at tbis university. '. Rev. Edward Dwight Eaton, D, '. IL. D., B. A., Yale '75 T S., is the pres ident of Beloit college Beloit Wis
 This college dates from 1S43 and ha about five hundred students enrolled. T Webster Merrifield M. A., who grad ', uated from the academic department il :. 1877, is head of the University of Nortl u Dakota, Grand Fork, N. D. This uni n [, versity started in 1883, and comprisc II about three hundred students. Il William Everett Waters, Ph. D., B A., Yale '78, fills the presidency O - Wells college, Aurora, N. Y. Wells col
 lege has been incorporated thirty years
 Charles Herbert Levermore, Ph. D. B. A.. Yale '79, is president of Adelph
 college, which was organized at Brook
 lyn, N. Y, in 1896.
 Rev. Stephen Beasley Linnard Pen
 rose, B. A., Yale go, is president 0
 Whitman college. Walla Walla, Wash
 This college dates from 1836
 Boothe Colwell Davis, Ph. D., B. D y Yale '93, was elected president of Al e. fred university, Alfred, N. Y. cn Jun
 IS, 1895. This university celebrated it
 sixtieth anniversary in 1896. Clinton Lo, khaIt, M A., Ph. D., Yal
 '94. left the presidency of Columbia col
 lege, Columbia, Ky, in 1895, to becom ,r president of Christian university, Can d' ton, Mo. He took a three years cours IS in the graduate department of Yale. le To add the names of other Yale grad 'e uates who have served as college presi 'r dents would increase this list to owe
 one hundred. The following institu
 tions received their first president !from Yale: Princeton. Columbia, Cor
 nell, Jobns Hopkins, University of Chi
 cago, Williams, Dartmouth, Hamilton
 Kenyon. Be,oit, Wabash Tulane, Hi
 nois, College of Mississippi and the uni @1=rV