Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1901-03-28
TOUCHING SKETCH.
Chicago Tribune Tells Some Wonderful
Things About DIR. Raymond.

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Things About DIR. Raymond.
The following sketch has appear
ed in a recent issue of the Chicago
Tribune along with picture of the
object SO that people might reeog.
nize the identity of one with the
other:
| Old ideas, conservative routine,
and political influence are the rocks
on which the Presidential career OF
the Youngest college President OF
the United States, DIR. Jerome Hall
Raymond, of the University of West
Virginia, has stranded. His resig-
nation was accepted on Wednesday
by the Board of Regents of that in
stitution. To add touch OF the
spectacular to the close cf his career
there his clothes have been attached
and he has departed for Europe.
| DR.. Raymond who at one time at
tended the University of Chicago,
has tasted the bitter and sweet OF
lite, and his hard fight for recogni
ton, coupled with his remarkable
success, made him impatient of old
ideas and restraints of tradition. He
was an unknown professor of sociol-
ogy when he heard that the Univer-
sity OF West Virginia was without a
head in 1897. He left Madison, Wis,
where he had taught, and went to
Wheeling. He was an outsider, I'M
trammeled by any faction, and Sc
cured the post. Then his troubles
began.
He found the college circles clan
nish in the extreme Instead of be-
ing welcomed he was looked at
askance. The curriculum was old
/ fashiond, women were admitted to
but few courses, and many Of the
professors, he claims, were unfit to
teach even in "a preparatory school.
] Single handed he undertook many
! reforms
He began by admitting women TO
all classes, and the attendance Of the
sex doubled within two years. He
changed the course to quarters, and
from nine months he made it full
/ twelve, following the University oil
Chicago plan. Then he opened
schools OF correspondence. The op
position TO this move was intense
among the teachers, but was in
dorsed by the Legislators, and APP
preparations were secured easily.
Then began the trouble which cul-
minated in his resignation. Five
professors, appointed, it is said,
through political influence. he de.
clared unfit TO teach. Their leader, he
claimed, was DR.. j. w. Hartigan, and
two years ago President Raymond
secured his resignation. With that
document, however, was a lawsuit,
in which President Raymond was
defendant DR.. Hartigan asked $25-
600 damages, and his four associates
also sought pecnniary balm for the
criticisms of their President.
DR.. Raymond's life reads like a
romance. He was born in poor cir
/ 1uuicbdi11o III &iiHIOu. lds III lCOo
His parents moved to Chicago two
years later, and soon afterward his
father died, leaving his mother poor.
The boy sold papers in the streets
and did any odd job that would
bring him money. He left school
when in the sixth grade and went to
work as messenger boy for the West
ern Union. Then he became mail
ing clerk on the Board of Trade and
studied shorthand at night.
He had completed two years at
Northwestern University, acting
part of the time as private secretary
to Miss Willard, when he accepted
a similar place with Bishop Tho
burn and travelled through Europe,
Africa, and India. There be found
time to study Sanscrit, and returned
to graduate with his class. He was
given the degree Of A. b. and M. A.
! by his alma mater and the degree of
Phi. ID. by the University OF Chica
go.