Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1912-11-19
PRESIDENT FELL TO
Be NAMED PROVOST
Committee to Recommend Him as
Head Maryland University.
MODEST SALARY AT START.
Later, it is Said, Position Will be More
Lucrative One Because Of Import
ant Duties.

ne seiecLeu Tor the important office or
Provost OF the University of Mary
and. as successor to the late Bern
ard Carter.
DIR. Fell will be recommended to
the board of regents at its meeting
next month by the special committee
which was appointed to select a head
for that old institution of learning.
The committee, which was appointed
in September. is composed of a rep
resentative from each of the FIVE de-
partments.
It's recommendation are subject to
revision by the board of regents and
must be approved by it before they
are effective. The committee in
cludes Philemon H. Tuck, depart
ment of arts and science; DR.. Thomas
A. Ashby, department of m sdicine;
Joseph C. France. department of
law; Dr.. Timothy o. Heatwole, de-
partment of dentistry, and DR.. David
M. r. Culbreth, department of phar-
macy.
In the report which will be sub
mitted next month, the committee
will recommend that DIR. Fell be
chosen as acting provost and be paid
a salary as such in addition to his
salary as president of St. Johns Col
lege, the academic department of the
university. His duties will be much
more extensive than have been as
signed to previous provosts. He will
be expected, it is understood, to open
an Office at the university and give
Saturdays and two other afternoons
stitution. An office force will be
selected to assist him.
The proposed arrangements are in
tended to be temporary. it was felt
by the members of the committee
that the university would prosper
to greater extent il the provost
would devote his entire time to the
university and be paid salary COM
mensurate with the work required.
The question of cost was an i'm
portant item. however. 1t was felt
that provost, with the full duties
of president, would require a salary
larger than could be paid at this time.
For that reason the committee, it is
said, decided to compromise and to
recommend that DIR. Fell be selected
as acting provost at modest salary
and be required to give a part of his
ii me to the work.
He will thus be able to learn Ihe
needs of the institution and formulate
some plan by which it will be pos
sible for the regents to raise sufficient
money to pay the salary of a provost
who can give his entire time to the
university. After a years experience
it is believed DR.. Fell will be asked
to take entire charge.
BY selecting DR.. Fell as acting
provost, the university will get the
benefit of his long experience as an
educator and administrator. Through
his connection with st. Johns Col
lege he has been brough in touch with
a number of msn who since leaving
the school have made success in the
world.
Since the death of Mr.. Carter the
university has been without provost.
Judge Stockbridge has been acting
in that capacity, but his duties as a
member of the Court of Appeals
have prevented him from giving
much attention to the affairs of the
institution.
In the past, provosts have been
more or less fgdreheads. The pecu-
liar form of government of the uni
versity made each separate faculty
responsible for it's own department.
The provost was not empowered to
act as central head and his duties
were largely confined to signing the
diplomas of graduates and presiding
at commencement exercises.
A nrmber of names were suggested
for the place, among them that of
former Governor Edwin Warield.
DR.. Fell also had number of sup
porters among the graduates and bis
experience as an educator and college
president was advanced as arguments
in his favor. DR.. Fell is regarded as
one of the leading educators OF this
part of the country. His ability as
an administrator has been tried as
the president of st. Johns College.
When he assumed charge of the
old institution, which was founded in
1896 and chus ranks as one of the old
est colleges in America, a great deal
OF its prestige had been lost and there
was danger that it would suffer thu
same fate as number of other small
colleges had. With signal ability
DR.. Fell set to work to restore St.
Johns to its former position. When
he took charge there was loug-stand-
ing mortgage debt of $40, 900 hang
ing over the school. Through his
efforts that has been entirely wiped
out. TIE final accomplishment of his
administration was the merging of
st. Johns with the University of
Maryland.
Born in Liverpool, England, on
July I5, 1851, DR.. Fell will carry TO
the University of Maryland the ripe
experience Of sixty-one years. His
father was surgeon in the English
Army and was killed in the Crimean