The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-31

| Doc Harper. the Standar OIL champiS
Of the Middle West.
Elected president Of Yale May Is, 1893.
and has done much to develop the college
since his Inauguration. securing much free
advertising for the corporation by his pub
lie speeches and notably improving the
quality Of the crew and football team
Author Of many books. chief among which
are Social Doz'ts in the Management OF
The Trust The Morality of the Statistic.
Economies for the Submerged, or Poor
Relations and the Public Welfare" and
Weekly Payments 1 Have Met" Is an ex-
~cellent af~ter-dinnev speaker. and knows how
10 crac: q joke without breaking II.
! Harper, William.
President Of the educational branch OF the
Standard Oil Company. located at Chicago
! Born in New Concord. o., July &c. 1853
: When told that President Hadiey OF Yale
had preceded him by three months. he OBJ
served: IT'S a good head start. but IL
beat him yet It's a great year for coIleH
presidents. isn't it," His nurse assured hi
that It certainly seemed so. and advise :
him 10 60 TO sleep. Not YETI replied thfS
infant. Il must catch up with HadleyS
first" From that time until he left COLI
( Ia=e this great educator never slept.
The result OF this ceaseless vigilance was
his graduation 1t the age OF Il at
--uSNirsum College in 1870. six years before
the president Of Vale received his diploma
q beating which has resulted IN the placing
Of Doctor Harper az scratch in all the educa-
tion2I h1rdicaps in the country. In order
TO emphasize his victory over the Yale
champion. young Harper went to New
Haven and in 1919 took a degree of Phi D..
on his rivals own track. a year BEFORE
Pres dent Hadley secured his A. B. For this
he has been severely criticised. on the
score that 1t IS all right to beat a man
in a fair race. but manifestly improper to
rub il in. President Harper has retorted that
in the long ran. Internationally. It is the rub
bing-in process that counts.
other degrees taken by him are D. D.,
Colby. 1874 financial degree. doctor OF the
dust" which he raises easily: and IL D..
University of Nebraska. 1sS3-an oratoricaI
degree. signifyiug doctor Of lungs. In the
Yaie jubilee scramble OF last year he Sc
cured 4 second LII. D.. as a graceful 40
LLJs.isCsneHt OF ms superiority over his
former rival. After graduation he tutored
and prof SEQ for a number OF years. becoui-
ing professor of Hebrew IN the Baptist
Theological SEMINARY, at Chicago. and
later professor ot bapJistry In the Hebrew
Society for Il heal culture In the same city.
Taking up chemistry. he discovered a prtn-
cipIe L. which the antagonistic properties
of oil and water might be so obliterated AZ
to form a pleasing mixture. a discovery
which attracted the Standard Oil Company
and led it to establish a Baptist university
at Chicago. at the head OF which Doctor
harper Was placed ana There ne mas
since remained.
The influence OF this university upon Chi
cago life has been uplifting. The statistics
Of ten years show that without In any way
diminishing the population Of Chicago cul-
ture has increased forty-three per cent; vtcs
has decreased seven and seven eighths par
cent and in seven wards where English was
unknown it can now be spoken by ninety
per cent OF the people and written by forty
five per cent. In literature the people have
shown a remarkably improved taste. and
where there were 100000 souls who five
years ago knew only Laura Jean LibbeY
and VI. Quad there are now over 100000
who are deeply interested in Erasmus ands
Ebert Hubbard and can recite whole pags{
from Hobart = Hobart = Chatfeld Hobare-
Cha tfeld = Taylor. the Richard = Harding
Davis of the axes.
The baptistry CT the university has had
a potently cleansing influence upon the
city and its oil has done much to make q
very smooth article out OF the bulk Of its
citizens. Doctor Harper writes much and Is
not the author of Professor Oscar Lowell
Triggs. His notices are: "Ad Astra Pr
Pine Line" and while the OIL Holds Out
to burn No Deficit Shall I Discern"