The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1913-04-24
AT ANNAPOLIS
PROF. PATTERSON CHOSEN.
ELECTED PRESIDENT OF AGRI-
CULTURAL COLLEGE BY
TRUSTEES.
AS Head OF Experiment Station Has
Secured the Confidence OF
the Farmers Of the
State.

The board of trustees of the Mary
land Agricultural College at a special
meeting held at the Hotel Rennert
elected Prof. Henry ]. Patterson as
president of the college.
Professor Patterson is now and has
been for a number of years the direct
or of the Maryland Agricultural Ex-
pertinent Station. He is also master
of the Maryland State Grange, and as
such has been in closer touch with
the farmers and the farming interests
of Maryland than any other man in the
State
The presidency of the college has
been open for nearly six months, when
DR.. R. w. Sylvester, who had held the
position for nearly 20 years, resigned,
and since then the board of trustees
has been endeavoring to find a sue
cessor.
Three Candidates Presented.
The names of three candidates were
placed before the board at its meeting
Prof H. J. Patterson, of the Mary
land Agricultural Experiment Station;
Prof H. A. Morgan, of the Tennessee
Agricultural Experiment Station, and
Prof. B. A. Crocheron, of the Sparks
Agricultural High School.
Governor GOldsborough nominated
Mr.. Morgan, Charles A. Councilman
nominated Mr.. Patterson and Speaker
James Nee Trippe nominated Mr..
Crocheron. Nearly every member of
the board made speeches concerning
the merits of the three candidates and
the needs of the college. The first bal
lot resulted as follows:
For Charles H. Stanley,
F. Carroll Goldsborough,> Harold
Walsh, John Hubert, Emerson C. Har-
rington, Charles A. Councilman and
Frank R. Kent.
For Morgan - Governor Colds
borough, Acknowledgement Poe, Robert
Grain, II. J, Skipper and Henry Holtz-
APPLE.
For Crocheron-State Senator Jesse
D. Price and Speaker Trippe-2.
On the second ballot the vote was:
For Patterson Messrs. Stanley, F.
Carroll Goldsborough, Walsh, Hubert,
Harrington, Councilman, Kent, Trippe
and Price,
For Morgan - Governor Colds
borough, Acknowledgement Poe, Grain,
Skipper and HOltzapple-5
Professor Patterson was declared
elected and the board Immediately ad-
journed.
Urges Consolidation Of Colleges.
State Comptroller Harrington took
occasion in the meeting to express
strongly his views upon the question
of a consolidation of the States edu-
cational Institutions. He declar lat
he ardently favored ~ 9ma' ION
of such schools as the b..
lege, the St Johns College. The West
ern Maryland College and other State
and semi-State institutions which ask
State aid into ore big State university.
Such an institution, he declared, could
be generously and properly looked
after by the State. and would be of
vastly more use to Maryland and more
credit than the number of small ana
inadequately aided institutions that
now exist
Director Patterson, who has been
/ chosen president, has made a fine
record while in charge of the Expert
ment Station, and is claimed to have
the confidence and respect of the farm
ers throughout the State. He was not
a candidate for the position and it is
understood did not desire it, but was
willing to serve if the board elected
him.