The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1913-12-18
.SLAGLE CHOSEN As
new PRESIDENT Of
STATE UNIVERSITY
Head Of stakIN oilegs.
is Given Important
f Prof1totion.
II II
ENDS LONG TASK
Regents Have Spent Months
Looking for Successor
of Dr.. Gault.

OF Dr.. Gault.
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1t was announced today by A. L
Hitchcock of this city, chairman O
the state board of regents of educa
ton, that DR.. Robert L. Slagle, presi
dent of South Dakota State College
had been elected to and had accepted
the presidency OF tne University OF
South Dakota, succeeding DR.. Franl.
lin ID. Gault, resigned.
DIR. Slagle's decision was not reach.
ed until yesterday afternoon, al
which time it was communicated II
the board of regents by telephone.
This ends a search of some sever
months by the board of regents for q
new head for the state university. Ii
was desired to set as high a stand
ard as possible in the selection of TIL.
new executive for the institution n
Nermillion. Dozens OF men, some APP.
plicants and others not, were consid-
erred during this time. The conclN.
sion OF the board was that none OF
those considered would give so much
promise of SUCCESS at Nermillion rs
would the head of the state college.
DIR. Slagle has worked out most OF
his career in South Dakota educa-
tional fields, having risen from a
professorship at the State School o:
Mines to the presidency of the UNI
versity at Vermillion.
DIR. Slagle was born at Hanover,
INhrly nNnrtu r,,,,l,o~;, =, 1 TX
from German ancestry that were am
.ong the first settlers in the Province
|of Pennsylvania. He graduated from
the classical curse at Lafayette col
|lege, Easton, Pa, in 1887, receiving
the degree of bachelor of arts. His
experience in teaching was in Dakota
territory, at "Groton College," then
located at Groton, in the winter OF
ISIS. He returned east and, entered
Johns Hopkins university, receiving
his degree of Phi. d. in 1894. His
major subject was chemistry, with
mineralogy and physics as subordi-
mates. The year 1S94-5 a spent
with: Prof. w. o. Atwater in food
studies in New York City and in his
laboratory at Middleton, Conn.
In 1895. DR.. slagle was elected
professor of chemistry in the South
Dakota Agricultural college. Two
years later lie was transferred to the
School of Mines, becoming president
of that institution in 1898. On Jan.
L, 1906, DR.. Slagle's pronounced sue
cess at the School of Mines was recog-
nized by his selection as president OF
the South Dakota. State College. IL"
is a member4of the American Chemic-
al Society, American Association for
the Advancement of Science. Order
of knights Templar and the Profess.
ant Episcopal church.
Nice-President Brown of the South
Dakota State College will be acting
president of that institution for the
remainder of the present school
year.
Concerning the appointment of DR..
Slagle, ono of the members OF the
board of regents yesterday wrote
President Hitchcock as follows:
Hopes for More Cooperation.
Il believe that it is III duty, as
far as possible, and within the means
at hand, to get the various instit'.-
tions under our control to take their
respective places in the great educa-
tional movement of the state; to get
them to. see that coordination AM
cooperation and not competition is
the. ultimate object sought. That was
one of the things had in mind when
voted for, DIR. Siagle,, that possibly
| he. would serve, as the, medium tc
! bring, this about in a measure. 1.ol
know and know, that there, lis too
/ much OF, thu spirit in each, of these
institutions Of, alpofness and a desire
ON the4,part of leach of them to at,
tempt to cover the whole field alone
I think that ato,,a great extent this
! spirit Is famed by local commercial
| clubs, local lotteries andAselfish In
tesc SITS. "par, .gaeH flsya .. ~
IL n. Better. Spirit at JermilliOn. sa8
President Hitchcock also, ,receivef
to-day the following statement by Il
member oil the faculty OF, the,G river'
Isity of South Dakota, which, since
1.-THE 1esignaNpnl of. President Gault
has been governed by a commission
of five deans:
81 want to say particularly tina,
Notwithstanding all the turmoil VIZ
have had this semester in various di
r%ections, the University, has attalnee
very distinct progress in severa
ways. AS i think l. have remarked
Ito you before, the placing of, respon.
lsibility on the faculty, and its parti
cipation in the real affairs Of the
University, has done much for it
development, even in this. short time
There is an elasticity about them
poorally and sniritually and an eSpri'
tde corps which. 1 have never seen be
fore in all my experience in the Uni
yersity, and which is capable of doins
much for the institution in time, il
it is not thwarted-
This influence extends even TO tht
families of the faculty members, am
1.-THE Faculty Women's Club, which
last year was a moribund institution
driving along an improbable exist
ence, now has an average attendance