Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-03
PRINCETON MEN
FAVOR FARRAND
Newark Teachers RenOmina-
ton for University Trus-
tee Is Popular.
FACTOR IN SHAPING
EDUCATIONAL AIMS
Alumni Association of the Or
anges Sponsor for Re-elec-
ton Movement.

When alumni of Princeton Univer-
slty cast their ballots on commence
ment day next June to fill the va
cancy which then will exist in the
list of five alumni members of the
board of trustees of the university,
friends of Wilson Farrand. headmas-
ter OF Newark Academy. this city.
VIII rally to support his candidacy
Tor reelection to the board on which
ne has served since 1909.
Mr.. Farrapd, who was graduated
from Princeton in 1885, became an
alumni member of the board of trus-
tees In one of the most troublous
periods in the history of the univer-
slty. William Cooper Proctor '83, had
lust offered to give the university
$oo0000 to construct graduate col
lege building. There was string to
the gift, however, Mr.. Cooper making
II condition that the building was
not TO be placed on the university
campus
Naturally, the board of trustees be-
came divided, one faction, led by
woodrow Wilson. then president of
Princeton, urging the rejection of the
offer unless the board of trustees
were permitted to have the building
constructed where it pleased, and the
other faction advocating the accept
ance of the gift
The questi ion of accounting the
Proctor gift came before the board
of trustees at the very first meeting
MIR. Farrand attended as a member
OF the body. The Newark educator
In the long fight that ensued was
uncompromising in advocating the
acceptance of the Proctor gift. Trus-
tees, the faculty, alumni and the stu9
dent body became involved in the
battle, but neither side in the board
of trustees, on whose vote lay the
final decision in the matter, could
convert sufficient members of the OPP
posing forces to accept or reject the
offer.
Second Request.
Finally, the atmosphere was clari-
fed in an unlooked-for way. The
Wyman bequest of $1,000, 000 also to
be devoted to a graduate college
building, was offered the university
The Wilson faction in the board of
trustees, asserting this great bequest
placed altogether a different aspect
on the question of accepting the
Proctor gift, began to advocate the
acceptance of both gifts, and both
finally came to the university.
The graduate college now is built
near the Princeton golf links. 1t was
dedicated last October, and Princeton
men are not alone in saying 1t is the
finest educational building In the
United States.
Soon after the Proctor and Wyman
gifts were accepted DR.. Wilson re-
signed the presidency of Princeton
to run for Governor of New Jersey.
This and the fact the university soon
was to possess a beautiful graduate
college building tended to heal the
breach IN the board Of trustees that
the fight about the Proctor gift had
opened, but there was still i'll feeling
and the likelihood that the board
might be divided again often became
apparent when questions on which
there was chance for anything but a
unanimity of opinion 1t has been
in the re-establishing of peace and
harmony between the once warning
factions that Mr.. Farrand has been
particularly useful to the university.
alumni say, since the gifts were ac-
cepted and DIR. Wilson left the uni
versity and Princeton graduates as
sert they are not likely to forget his
service when the question of his re-
election must be decided Particu-
larlyS they say, are they anxious to
return Mr.. Farrand to the board of
trustees because 1t always has been
the custom at Princeton for alumni
members of the board of trustees to
serve two terms.
Candidate of the West
Opposition, if it may be called OBJ
position, to Mr. Farrands reelection
comes chiefly from graduates of the
university from the far West. West
ern alumni nave nominated S. H.
Thompson, of Colorado, to succeed
Mr.. Farrand, but Eastern graduates,
who probably are in the majority, are
said to be almost one in urging the
reelection of the Newark man.
Mr.. Farrand, Eastern alumni say,
is needed on the board of trustees.
He is practical educator and as
member of the college entrance board
and his resulting familiarity with
conditions in other colleges than
Princeton has given great aid to the
FACULTY and trustees in shaping the
course of studies, the entrance re-
quirements and other matters of an
educational sore in Princeton.
The knowledge he has gained from
long service as an educator, his
alumni friends say. has been particu-
larly valuable to him in serving on
the committee on curriculum of the
board of trustees. Mr.. Farrand also
Is a member of the committee on
graduate school and the committee
on honorary degrees.
The Princeton Alumni Association
OF the Oranges, which nominated Mr..
Farrand for his present term, also
Is his sponsor for reelection. Nom
nations for alumni members of the
board OF trustees are made by alumni
by petition, twenty names being re-
duired to nominate. Mr.. Farrand was
asked by the Orange association, of
which he is member, to stand for
reelection in December. and he ac-
cepted. The alumni members of the
board of trustees are elected by the
alumni, the life members of the board
being chosen by the board itself.