Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1916-07-05
NEW PRESIDENT FOR LENox.

NEW PRESIDENT FOR LENox,
DR.. A st C.air Mackenzie, the new.
ly elected President of Lenox Col
lege, will soon rut Hopkinton in big
letters on the map OF Iowa, for he
has reen d pioneer all through his
romantic career. 1t was this Ken.
tuckian of Sc ttish ancestry who be-
cane the friend Of Lord Kelvin the
most renowned physicist Of modern
times. 1t was Mackenzie who OF his
own free viii and accord generously
made use Of his knowledge of Can
tonesc to teach the American languag
and its moral standards to Philadel-
phia's China town. 1t was he who
unearthed forgotten records IN order
to write the first history CT Ken
tlcky's Oldest Masonic lodge; who
first brought Journalism into the cur
riculum of our southern universities
who in 1911 made use of his famili-
arity with Indian, African and other
tribes to prepare an anthropologlcal
study CT the worlds oral literature,
in any language. Mackenzie it was
who volunteered in 1912 to be anth-
ropologist for Lange's Brazilian ex-
pedition, formed to explore the dead
ly fever-swamps Of the upper Amazon
and to study the language and Gus
toms of tribes savage and unknown;
who tciled and taught for eseral
summers many mile from the near
est railroad of the Allegheny. noun
tains; and who recently brought to a
successful close the first efforts ev-
er made to bring some of the advan-
tages Of collegiate education to the
500 members of the Blue Grass branch
Of the American Federation Of La
Dor.
Equally at home with rich and poor
he will be welcomed by all classes Ct
people in Iowa as a man OF lniua-
tive and broad sympathies whose
achievements are guarantee that ne
is destined to be distinct social and
educational asset to the HaWkeye
commonwealth.
Born in the year 1875 Mackenzie
received most of his higher educa-
ton at the Normal College and the
universities of Glasgow, Edinburgh,
and Oxford. the degree OF Master OF
Arts with honors being conferred on
him, degree which ranks in value
with the German Ph.D. In those
days the degree Of Doctor of Philos.
ophy could not be obtained at any
British university, although, Oxford
is one of the Oldest institutions
in Europe
After teaching in Scotland and IN
Pennsylvania, DR.. Mackenzie was ap
pointed as Professor of English and
Logic at the State University Of
Kentucky. Until 1910 he supervised
all the English and Philosophy. but
in that year the English department
required his entire supervision: Tht
work was highly organized and stan
dardized, as shown by the fact thai
the three original courses had devel
oped into thirty--eight. No similar
department in any southern univer
sity had curriculum so comprehen.
sive.
The administrative ability OF Dr.
Mackenzie was put to the test /
1912. Chosen as first Dean OF the
Graduate School, he was called upon
to organize the advance work Of the
various colleges of the university. He
selected the Graduate School Com
mittee, he co-ordinated the work OF
faculty of 33, and increased the en-
rollment of graduate students to SO,
an increase proportionally greater
than that Of any similar school in
the United States.
A Rhodes scholarship is worth
$4,000 (forty.five hundred dollars
Every Rhodes scholar sent to Oxford
from the University Of Kentucky has
been a Major English student train
ed by DR.. Mackenzie. Recently one
Of his students secured a Fellowship
at Princeton. A Harvard scholarship
in anthropology went to another of
his men, and still others have secur.
ed some Of the choicest prizes Of
fered by big universities like Yale,
Cornell, Columbia, Chicago, Wisconsin
and Illinois.
Hanover and Heidelberg, Cincinnati
and Tennessee. are among the in
stitutions that have known DR.. Mac
kenzie as a visiting lecturer. He has
addressed associations of teachers
as far west as the Black Hills OF
South Dakota and eastward to Vir
ginia. and from Pennsylvania south
ward to Alabama.
No man in Kentucky has made 6
more thorough study Of the education
al problem of today. In April Of
this year he was selected to represen
Kentucky at the Southern Conference
held in New Orleans. He was invit
ed to read paper showing how tt
correlate history. sociology. econom
ics,civics, literature, art education an
philosophy in high school, college
and university curriculum. At the same
time he was chosen to Serve as 6
member of the committee on Ian
guage, which is the outcome of long
continued effort of the Southern Ed
ucational Association to reach plar
for correlating TIE course Of study
The choice is recognition of hi
pathological attainments. The frs
effort of this permanent committee
will be to discriminate between The
language work desirable in the ele
mentary school, the high school, the
college and the university respective
ly. In other words, the plan is tt
Istandardize the language teaching O
the South.