, 1912-05-09
UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT
Dr.. Duniway Of Montana Chosen to Sue
coed Dr.. Meriea-Is a Scholar Of High
Attachments and Success


university trustees, held in Lar
annie yesterday afternoon, DR.
Clyde Augustus Duniway was u ;.
animously elected president of the
university to succeed d.. Charls
O. Merica, resigned. DIR. Duna-
way will begin his services with
the University on August /.
DR.. Duniway is at present the
president of the University OF
Montana, which position he has
held for the past four years. He
is a gentleman of unusually high
scholarly attainments and in ad-
ditinn comes to the Wyoming in
stltution with a reputation for
marked success in educational and
administrative work.
He is a man of As years of age
and has a most pleasing and win
ming address. He is married and
has two boys of 4 aud 7 years.
DR.. Duniway is a native of AL
bany, Ore, and obtained the adj
vantages of early schooling in a
large measure by his own efforts
by working re a devil" in an
Oregon printing Office.
At 10 he became a cowboy, but
upon reaching his majority an am
billions for a higher education
mastered him, and sustained large
ly by his own efforts he entered
Cornell university, where he grad
uated with the degree of B. A. in
1892. He then took up work in
Harvard and secured his master of
arts degree from that institution
and became an instructor there,
and at the same time pursued work
in history and political science
for which he was given the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy in 1897.
He was then elected to the chair
of history in Leland Stanford un-
iversity and this professorship he
held for eleven years, or until his
election four years ago to the pre-
eidency of the University of Mon
tana, in which work he has been
notably successful.
DR.. Duniway is the son of Abb
gail Scott Duniway whose SPLEEN
did efforts e largely respons-
ible for the development of woman
suffrage in Idaho, Washington and
Oregon, and whose devotion to
the cause of women in political
and other fields won her a nation
al reputation,
In addition to his educational
work, DR.. Duniway has been a
profound historical student and is
regarded as an authority on Amerl-
can history, especially those
phases affecting the development
of the west. He has spent q year
in foreign study, at Leipsic, Paris
and Berlin, and is a member of a
number of scientific and historical
societies, including the American
Historical society, the American
Political Science association, the
American Academy of Political
Society of International Law,
the American Antiquarian society
and the historical societies of sew
eral states.
The university trustees have
purchased from DR.. Merica the
residence which he now owns in
Laramie and this will become the
residence of the new president.
DIR. Duniway, in an interview this
morning, expressed his pleasure at
the wider opportunities opening
to him in his new field and said
that he was anxious that the uni
versity should not only continue
to deserve the support of the peo-
pie of the state, but that the people
of Wyoming would more closely
regard it as their own institution
He said that DR.. Merica had vast
ly increased this feeling toward
the university and hoped it would