The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-07-16
MONTPELIER SEMINARY.

commercial department has not as yet
been secured. The trustees of the
Seminary have for some time been
endeavoring to have Principal DaveD-
port give his word to remain at the
head of the school for another year.
thus completing term of three years
as principal, promising at the expira-
tion of this period to cheerfully re-
lease him. But Mr.. Davenport has
given them but very little encourage
ment as to his remaining longer, and
yet the trustees have taken this little
as meaning good deal and until last
week, at the adjourned meeting of
the executive committee of the trus-
tees, did practically nothing about
securing new principal for the COM
ing year.
At this meeting, when Mr.. Daven-
port was called upon for final decis
ion he gave it emphatically in the
negative and consequently for a short
time the school was without head.
Inasmuch as no proper amount of
investigation had been made aud no
satisfactory candidates were at that
time before the committee for their
consideration, it was decided to offer
the principalship temporarily to Pro-
fessor Howe of the department of
mathematics Mr.. Howe was at once
communicated with and today i'll
formed the executive committee that
he had decided to accept the offer
with the understanding made by the
trustees, that, whenever the proper in
dividual for permanent principal
appears he is to be secured as soon as
possible and Mr. Howe, acting pro
tenn, be at once relieved.
This comes as surprise to many
friends of the school, as we'll as to the
trustees themselves, for it has been
confidently expected that Mr. Daven-
port. who is thoroughly interested in
the school, having graduated from the
same back in the seventies, and who
has been an active trustee of the in
admission to the Vermont conference,
would remain as its leader during the
coming year. But the duties of the
office, which have embraced not mere.
ly the guiding of school interests on
the Hill but also the hardships of a
| financial agent in the field, have been
so wearing that Mr.. Davenport feels
compelled on account of his health to
resign the office and take a much
needed rest,
AS agreed upon, however, early in
the spring, he will remain in charge
of the interests of the school until
September l., and then at the opening
of the fall term, if his successor has
not been secured, Mr.. Howe will step
in as acting principal.
Mr.. Howe is native of Weston,
Vermont, where his widowed mother
now resides In 1890 he was sont to
Kimball Union Academy at Meriden,
N. H., from which institution he
graduated in 1885, ranking among the
first of his class in scholarship.
While here he frequently acted in the
capacity OF a substitute teacher, re-
lieving his instructors, and more espec-
tally the one in mathematics, in times
of sickness and their inability to be
present with their classes. All
through his course here, as well as
his college course which followed.
Mr.. Howe paid his way by the
sweat of his BROW doing odd jobs
here and there as he found them.
receiving pecuniary assistance from
no other source.
In the fall of 1896 he entered Dart
mouth College. Throughout his course
he made a special study OF sciences
and mathematics. Being naturally of
retiring disposition Mr., Howe at
tended strictly to his duties, and con-
sequently entered but little into the
real college life of the school. His
one chief interest, aside from q care
full pursuit of his studies, was the
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Mr.. Howe took an active part, having,
previous to his college career, been
actively engaged in debating while
at Kimball Union Academy, belonging
to and travelling with the debating
team at that time connected with the
school.
Mr.. Howe graduated from Dart
mouth in June, 1900, ranking third iii
class of over sixty members. Upon
his graduation he WAS made mem
Der of Phi Kappa Psi.
During the school year l9o1-2, Mr..
| Howe was instructor of mathematics
in the high school OF Hanover, NJ H.,
and came to Montpelier Seminary in
the fall of 1902, to have charge of the
| instruction. in mathematics and n part
of the science work, and has remained
in this capacity mp to the present
time.
Mr.. Howe is an able man and in
many instances which have already