Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1905-08-19
WADSWORTH ACCEPTS CALL
President Of Occidental College Takes the
Chair at Bellevue
WILL Be HERE BY SEPTEMBER FIRST
Trustees and students Rejoice in
Success of Securing Man who
Ranks as strong Educa-
tor and Executive.

DIT. Guy w. wadsworth, president Of Oc-
cidental college at Los Angeles, has ac-
cepted the presidency of Bellevue college
and will be there September !. or at the
beginning Of the scholastic year to take
charge OF the institution.
Some two weeks ago The Bee announced
that DR.. wadsworth had been formally
called 10 Bellevue and that the trustees
hoped And believed he would accept Fri
day morning DIR. Mllroy, secretary Of the
board OF trustees. advised The Bee that
those expectations had been realized
We are gratifed indeed" said Dr. Nil
roy, lat securing DR.. wadsworth as the
head Of Bellevue college He is a strong
man and a good educator. His adninistra-
tive abilities are generally recognized. we
feel that under his direction the institution
VIII prosper and develop into one of greater
strength and influence.
The outlook certainly IL good Finan-
cially we are better OF today than we
were year ago and the prospects are
bright in that direction"
All want DR.. waSsworth,
Bellevue has been without president
since last spring, when the resignation of
DR.. Harlowe Lampen was accepted With
united effort and determination IL seemed
the trustees Immediately sought to secure
m g
givings as to the success of their plans.
for DR.. wadsworth occupied a very at
tractive position as the president of the
strongest Presbyterian college on the Pa
cihe coast whose progress and develop
ment have been almost unImpeded for a
considerable period of years. at least since
mis- tncumbency began something like n
decade ago, when he went there from
Wana Walla, Wash Although DR.. Wads-
worth, on his return to California from
the general assembly at winona Lake.
Ind, stopped off at Omaha as the
guest of Or. Edwin Hart jerks. pastor of
the First Presbyterian church and a Bel
levue trustee, and with DR.. jerks visited
the college. spoke there and was then pre-
.dicted by the Bellevue correspondent of
The Bee as the next president of the in
sttution, the trustees evidently had small
hope of being able to secure him, for
when asked about the matter, Dr. jerks
replied In such a way as to give the i'm
preston that 1t was almost unreasonable
to suppose DR.. wadsworth would leave
Occidental.
II transpires that conflict of views
as to certain administration matters at Oc-
cidental in which one Of the most promi-
nent financial friends was active, has con-
tributed toward Dr. Wadsworth's decision
" u CnaQBe.
Different Air with students.
One notable feature attending DR.. wads-
worth's advent at Bellevue which. for its
absence, distinguished the coming of DR.
Lampen year ago when he succeeded
President Kerr. is the cordial feeling OF
the students
The students are heartily in sympathy
with the trustees in their happiness over
securing DR.. WadswOrth," said DR.. Milroy
The feeling OF the students against Dr.
Lampen was so bitter as to prompt a
formal written declaration by them and
similar declarations in their college paper
and these, OF course, were read by the
unwelcomed president, Nor did DIT. Lam
p pen succeed in living down this hostility
born partly from the warm love still ami
mating every student for DR.. Kerr, whose
leaving was keenly disappointing to them
DR.. Lampen's life work-although he was
highly educated man-had not been thai
OF a college president. and before the close
OF the year the trustees, while the presi
dent was in the east. decided to request
his resignation. He did not return to Al
out the year, but did his work from the
east.