The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-07-29
TALK OF KIRKLAND
 FOR PRESIDENCY
University Trustees Have Not Announced Aber-
 crOmbie's Successor

Montgomery July 2S.-(Speeial.)-Dr J. H. Kirkland, chancellor of Vanderbilt university, is expected to be given a chance of accepting or refusing the pres idency Of the University of Alabama. Information to this effest could not be gathered from any direct statement of the board of trustees of the university who met at the capitol at noon today, Tor from any sources that might pos sess the ears of those who were at the session, but from the trend of popular opinion, which has been most pronounced since the coming to Montgomery on Thursday night of the brilliant Tennessee educator, scholar and author.
 At today's session of the board the nominating committee appointed at the session June 30 to look over the field for a successor to pr. John W. Abercrom- bic, resigned, reported to the nine trus- tees in attendance at the session, but this report is withheld from the public The board, after a sitting of two and one-half hours, decided to adjourn to meet again at the capitol on August Il, at which time 1t is confidently expected that the atmosphere will be clarified by the election of a president.
 Favorable to Kirkland
 That the board of trustees are generally favorable to Dr. Kirkland, and that they would be glad to have him as adminis- trative head of the university is generally conceded at the capitol Since Dr. Kirk lands connection with Vanderbilt, which is one of the largest universities in the south, the educator has come into na- tional repute, and is recognized every where as one of the most brilliant of the coterie of college presidents in the south.
 The recent disagreement of tho Van derbilt trustees as to whether the uni versity should be denominational, how ey CT, it is believed to have caused certain friction between the president and his board which may lead him to sever his connections with that institution to iden- tify himself with the institution of this state.
 In the opinion of many the action of the board today in adjourning until Au- gust H. without the election of Dr. Ab- ercrombies successor. is believed to be done at the instance of pr. Kirkland trough this belief has not been author- ized.
 Gov Emmet O'Neal, when seen at the capitol late this afternoon, announced that the board was considering a num- Der of educators, all of whom, he stated, are among the foremost scholars Of the south. He would make no statement re- garding the Kirkland rumors merely de- cIaring that the board had not taken final action on any candidate.
 Members Present
 Nine members of the University of Alabama board of trustees were in att tendance when the board convened with the governor at noon yesterday to con- sider the selection of a president for the university The session was held behind closed doors, and outside of the trus- tees, only the secretary, Robinson Brown of Tuscaloosa, was admitted.
 The members present were: Governor ,O'Neal, ex-officio; Daniel Pratt, Pratt vile; T. M. Stevens, Mobile Dr. J. H. Johnson. Talladega F. H. Glenn. Scale; Jrdge Thomas w. Coleman, Eutaw; Judge Henry B. Foster, Tuscaloosa; H. T. Davis. Gadsden; Hugh Morrow, Bir- mingham. Those absent were: Superin- tendent of Education H. J. Willingham, ex-officio; NJ. P. LeGrand, Montgomery;