Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1908-12-23
PRES. NoR1HR0P' RESIGNS.
EMINENT INSTRUCTOR pEslnas
TO RETIRE.

Having Reached the Age Of "a Years
He Believes Younger Man
Should Take the Burden.
President Cyrus Northrop of the
University Of Minnesota, whose resig-
nation after Is years of service was
rendered to the board Of regents at the
annual meeting Tuesday, and its &C.
ceptance declined. has not decided
whether to enforce the acceptance of
his resignation.
When questioned as to his action
DR.. Northrop would make no definite
statement as to whether he would &C.
cede to the request of the board of re.
gents and withdraw his resignation.
:: The matter will come up again at
the next meeting of the Regents.
Nothing is known of the action that
will be taken by the regents with re-
gard to the resignation, but it is
probable that the request of President
Northrop will be granted. 1t is prob
able that he will be given the title
of president emeritus.
DR.. Northrop has no plans for the
future and will take long rest before
attempting any further work of any
kind. 1t is probable that he will make
a prolonged visit abroad.
Some weeks ago rumors of DR..
Northrop's intention to resign were
current but at that time he denied
them in strong terms, declaring there
was absolutely no truth in any state
ment that he was contemplating the
step he has just announced his inten-
ton Of taking.
DR.. Northrop, lawyer, editor, author,
Yale professor and second president
Of the University of Minnesota, has
permanently associated his name with
the notable growth of the university
and with the advancement of educa-
ton throughout the Northwest.
During the twenty-five years that he
has directed this institution he has
seen it rise from the rank of an acad-
envy, or, at best, a minor college with
800 students and one building, to the
rank Of true university with 1000
students and twenty buildings. Under
his sagacious control the attendance
at the university has become the larg-
est, with one exception, that is en-.
joyed by any state university in the
United States. He has elevated the
standard of scholarship moreover, to
an equality with that of any other
American university.
To his achievements as an educator
he has added much successful labor
in the fields of politics, literature and
religion. He has impressed upon the
state no less than upon the university,
through his sterling, beneficent char
acter, a personal influence that can
not be definitely gagged, but that is
recognized by his associates as the
best Of tributes to his worth.
Born at Ridgefield, Conn.,, Sept. 80,
1884, DR.. Northrop attended introduce
tory schools and an academy in his ma
tive town. At the age of II he entered
Williston seminary, at Easthampton,
Mass. A year later he became a stu.
dent of Yale college. Having lost one
year through illness, he was gradu.
ated in 1857. During his college ca
reer he was member of Phi Beta
Kappa, Skull and Bones, Delta Kappa
Epsilon and Alpha Sigma Tau. He
was the first president of the Brothers
in Unity, literary society that en-
braced half the student body. In 1859
he was graduated by the Yale Law
school. While taking his law course
he taught Latin and Greek at a pri-
vate school in New Haven, and he
also fitted two classes to enter the
college.
In 1862 he withdrew from the legal
profession to become editor of the
New Haven Daily Palladium.
But another year had barely elapsed
when he was called to adorn with his
talents third profession, being sum.
moned quite unexpectedly to the
chair of rhetoric and English liter
allure at Yale. In this congenial sta
ton he remained twenty-one years.
Meantime during the Civil War and
the days of Reconstruction" he again
interested himself actively in politics
and made many addresses. He was
even candidate for congress in 1867.
He retired wholly from the political
arena in 1876, except that he retained
during the administration of President
Hayes, the position of collector of GUS
toms at New Haven, to which Office
he was appointed by President Grant.
He was elected president of the
University Of Minnesota in 1884.
From Yale he received the degree of
LID. in 1886; from Illinois college
and the University of Wisconsin, in
1904: and from South Carolina college
in 1905.
Always prominent Congregation.
alist, he served as moderator of the
national Congregational council at
Worcester. Mass. in 1889, and at Lon.
don, England, in 1891, as delegate to
the international Congregational coun-
ell, and as one of the two American
vice presidents of this council.
On his 28th birthday DR.. Northrop
was married, In 1862, to Miss Ann
Elizabeth Warren, of Stamford, Conn.
They have two children.
Since he intended to devote himself
to law, he catered an attorneys of.
flee after leaving Yale, and took his
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