Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-08-18
LOOKS LIKE
PROF. VAN HISE
MADISON REGENTS REFUSE TO
AFFIRM OR DENY.
WARM CONTEST LIKELY
Regent Edmonds of Oconto Falls
Says Nominating Committee Will
Decide for Professor of Geology
Milwaukee Members of Board Also
Favor Him-Has Good Chance.
Madison. August Is.

Madison, August Is.
Madison members of the board of
university regents, B. J. Stevens and
Col. William F. Villas, refuse to con-
firm the report that Prof. Charles r.
Van Hise, head of the department of
geology of the university is to be
elected as president at the adjourned
meeting of the board to be held here
next Tuesday.
Ex-senator Villas, who is of the
special committee, counsels delay,
as does Mr.. Stevens. Col. Villas
says that he does not know whether
the board will elect president at the
next Tuesday meeting or not. He
says the special committee has not
agreed on a report, and he thought it
impossible for the committee to agree
sufficiently to make an undivided re-
port. He said he favored delay for
the reason that there were no interests
of the university suffering, and that
until the great majority of the board
could agree on some one it would be
best to defer action.
Regent Stevens expressed the same
kind of sentiments, and declared that
Yale, Providence and Columbia and
other universities had gone without
presidents for long periods at a time
and had suffered no bad effects. I'm
der DR.. Birge, as acting president, the
faculty was working nicely, there were
more students entered this fall than
ever before, and there were no indica-
tons of decline or difficulty, he de-
clared.
Regent Edmonds of Oconto Falls,
member of the nominating committee,
is authority for the statement that the
committee will nominate Prof. Van
Hise.
The three Milwaukee regents, J. NJ
Pereles, Almah j. F'risby and Arthur
j. Pulls, all declare in favor of Prof
Van Hise, but warm contest is ex-
pected.
The nominating committee consists
of William f Villas, Arthur j. Pulls,
James A. KerWin, e. A. Edmonds and
James H. Stout. The board of regents
consists of two members for the state
at large, and one from each congress
sional district, who are appointed by
the governor, and the superintendent
of public instruction and president Of
the university are members ex-officio.
The present board consists of the fol
lowing named persons; the presidency
of the university being vacant:
Superintendent of public instruction,
eX-officio-L. D. Harvey.
State at large-William F. Villas.
State at large-Almah J. Frisby.
First district-H. G.. Taylor.
Second-Breese J. Stevens.
Third-DWight T. Parker.
Fourth-James M. Pereles.
Fifth-Arthur j. Pulls.
Sixth-Maj. G. Mead.
Seventh-Edward Evans.
Eighth-James G. KerWin.
Ninth-E. A. Edmonds.
Tenth-George F. Merrill.
Eleventh.. H. Stout.
Is Prominent GeoIoqist.
DR.. Charles R. Van Hise is especial
ly popular, being conspicuous in the
athletic, scholastic and religious life of
the state university. He was born in
Fulton, Wis, May 20, 1857. He gradu-
ated from the Wisconsin university in
1879 and received the degree of doc
tor of philosophy in 1852. Immediate
ly upon his graduation he entered the
faculty Of the Wisconsin university
and in 1892 was made professor of
geoloby. In the latter year also he
was elected nonresident professor of
structural geology in the University of
Chicago, a position which he still
holds From 1881 to 1882 he was as
sistant on the Wisconsin geological
survey, and has been consulting ge-
ologist of the Wisconsin geological and
natural history survey since 1897 He
is one of the most prominent geolo-
gists in the country.