Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1915-10-22
DR.. f. D. HOLLAND ELECTED
PRESIDENT OF STATE COLLEGE
Noted Educator Unanimous Choice of Regents
9aLto Succeed President Enoch A. Bryan---
Has Had Highly Successful Career.

-NhtCi th0 AdCullS IeCSpllOn w eu
nesday evening" the regents of the
State College of Washington held a
meeting at the Palace hotel and after
considering the report of e. T. Co
man on his trip east to secure a sue
cessor to President C.yan, by a
unanimous vote rendered the posi-
ton to DR.. E. O. Holland, at present
superintendent of schools at Louis
vile, Ky.
In explanation OF their decision
the following statement has been
given out:
The strongest factor prompting
the selection of DR.. Holland was his
success as superintendent of schools
of Louisville. Kentucky. This posi-
ton he assumed in 1912. He was
called to the Louisville position fol-
lowing a reorganization of the city
school system which in the process
was placed under "a board OF educa-
ton created by the state Legislature
of Kentucky. The reforms accom-
plished in Louisville, in the past
three years, largely on the initiative
of DR.. Holland, it is said, have gwen
the city one of the best educational
systems in the country. Louisville
is this year spending over $4,000
for the betterment of her schools.
THE point in the Louisville
achievement which made the strong
est appeal 10 the regents was the
rapid strides toward the industriali2-
ing of the schools which have taken
place under DR.. Hollands admins
tration. He has made lifelong study
of problems of efficiency as connect
ed with educational administra ton.
coupled with which has been deep
study of and sympathy with the pres
ent nationwide movement in behalf
of industrial education in all parts
of the public system. The work of
the Louisville schools in manual
training, home economics, agricul-
ture, and kindred lines, all of which
are of perma nent interest to the state
college, are classed in the first rank
among city school systems in the
United States.
Or. Holland was supported by
strong recommendations from scores
of the best known educators in the
United States, among whom were
David Starr Jordan, former president
of Leland Stanford university; Dean
Jas. E. Russell of Columbia univer-
sity, DR.. Joseph Swain, president Of
Swathmore, and former president of
the National Educational Association
of America; President Nicholas Muir
ray Butler of Columbia university;
President William r. Foster of Reed
college, Portland; Edwin l.. Holton
of Kansas Agricultural college; DR..
E. H. Lindley of Indiana university;
President Henry Suzzalo of The Uni
versity of Washington and Presi-
dent William L. Bryan Of Indiana
university.
"By these men Dr. Holland is de-
scribed as a man blessed with an
abundant supply of good, com mon
sense of cleverness and unusual tact
and power for making things go. He
is sane, progressive and constructive.
It is known that at different times in
recent years he has been asked to
consider a number of positions high
in the educational affairs of the
country; among which were the SUI
perintendency of schools of the city OF
Minneapolis; dean of the college OF
education in the University of Vir-
ginia and a chair in Teachers col
lege of Columbia university, New
York. Among the strongest testi'
monials offered in behalf of DR.. Hol-
land was one by his close personal
friend, President Henry Suzzalo OF
the University of Washington.
Support was given DR.. Holland
by President Nicholas Murray Butler
of Columbia university, who assured
the board of regents that in his
judgment it would be difficult to find
better equipped man than DR.. Hol'
land for the post which they desired
to FILL"
DR.. Holland is native of Indiana
born in 1873. He graduated from
/ Indiana university and began his ca
reer as a teacher as principal Of the
high school of Anderson. Indiana