Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-11-22
HAYERFORD HEAD QUITS
FOR PERSONAL REASONS
Doctor Sharpless Resigns to De
vote Time to Private
Affairs
SERVED THIRTY YEARS
Administration Has Seen Wonderful
Growth-Board Regrets
Action

Dcsire 10 have opportunity for a greater
Attention TO private affairs Is the reason
sscrl,ed BY Or. Isaac Sharpiess for tender
ING his resignation as president Of Haver-
ford College.
ferd today said that his action. which was
amounted last night was inspired solely
~ personal reasons. II have held the office
for thirty years" he said "and feel that
after that service I am entitled to rest.
I rendered my resignation last year. but It
was not accepted at that time ! hope to
retire at the end OF the present academic
year. and trust that | may he permitted to
do So My relations with the board OF
managers have always been most cordial. and
AZ this time It is only the feeling that am
entitled to devote myself to personal affairs
and take rest that prompts me to resign"
In Doctor Sharplcss'a long lncumbency
he has been instrumental In the growth Of
TIaverford from n group OF six buildings
10 a modern college of Nenty buildings and
an endowment Of S2.6O0.0O0 as against
$3.50 900 in 1887. Tho library numbers 67,-
600 volumes and has an income of s5O0I
yearly for purchase Of books
BOARD REGRETS ACTION
Doctor Sharpless's resignation was not
announced until last night, although mem
bers of the hoard of managers knew before
that time of his contemplated action.
Some Of the managers nave asked me
20 reconsider my resignation" he said to-
day. 'but told them. as 1 tell you now.
that have determined that need the rest
and feel that after my long service the time
has come to take it
James Wood OF New York senior mem
ber OF the managers, In announcing the res
ignation at a meeting and dinner OF faculty
and managers, spoke with regret OF Doctor
Sharplesss decision to retire His senti-
tg hx, A..
board
Doctor Sharpless has been as much re-
speCted by the students ns by the faculty
He kept in personal touch with all the un.
dergraduates. and is said to know person
ally every man who has been Mt Haverford
In his lncumbency as president
In his academic policies Doctor Sharp
less raised the standards of instruction
without seeking to rival the large colleges
In tho number OF students. oxford Uni
yersity has ranged Haverford with tho
best of the large universities, and the col
lege has furnished four or five winners of
Rhodes Scholarships.
Doctor Sharpess was born in Cheste,
County in December, 1S4S and was grad
uated from the Lawrence Scientific School
of Harvard University in 1873. He was sue
cessively teachcrNat Westtown School in
structor and professor of mathematics at
Haverford College, dean GSS4-1SS7) and
president from 1887 to the present time.
AUTHORITY OF HISTORY
He is acknowledged by Trevelyan and
Claiming as the leading authority on Penn
sylvana Colonial history. He has written
number of textbooks on mathematics,
several of them in collaboration with DR..
George NJ. Philips, now principal of the
West Chester Normal School, and I'm 1915
summed up his broad and deep experience
as an educator in his latest book. "The
American College"