The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1918-04-08
LAKELAND HAS
DISTINGUISHED
VIsIToRl|N PERSON Of
EXPIRES. CORNELL uN|V.

g Lakeland has the distinction an
l. honor of entertaining DR.. King, VIII
IS for forty years was president Of Co,
! nell University. OF Lakeland's note
visitor, Hon. Washington Gardner. an
other distinguished Lakeland visito,
writes as follows:
Among the many tourists who hay
made beautiful Lakeland their hom
during the season now drawing nea
Its close there is one whose unusua
career brings especial honor to on,
city. AS We have observed his cree
figure and easy carriage it is hard tc
realize that this man, distinguished
in many lines, bears up so we'll under
the weight of more than eighty-seyen
years.
Graduating with distinction more
than sixty years ago from one of the
leading educational institutions of
the middle west he was at once made
tutor in his Alma Mater; five years
later was chosen full professor in
Cornell college, Iowa, and after five
years OF service he was elected Pres.
ident of that then young but promis-
ing institution. For forty-fve years
ne served as president which is a
longer time than any other educator
mas remained as the head of an Am.
erlcan institution Of learning not ex-
cepting President Elliott of Harvard
or the celebrated DR.. Knott, so long
the honored head of Union Collage
from which VIM. H. Seward and other
men of wide repute graduated
During his administration approxi-
mately fifteen thousand young men
and women received their collage
framing wholly or in part at Cornell
From its halls have gone forth cahi.
net ministers, governors. bishons
Judges, educators, financiers and phv-
indeed, men and women who
nave been among the distinguished
IN every walk in life.
Under his administration the insti.
tutlon had a constant growth in the
annual attendance of students tho nm.
argement of the faculty, the amount
u endowment, the number and char
icter of buildings and the eouipment
necessary to do first class modern COL
eye work The aggregate results of s
lis long service entitle him to rank
'mong the successful educators If bis
ime.
Whiie for nearly a half century |
resident King gave himself unre- l
erVedly to the work of education and Q
IL the time at very moderate sal. II
ry' ne was fortunate in some invest a
ieh's so that near the close of his G
areer he was able to endow evarv o
ne OF the ninety-nine counties in e.
lie state of Iowa with student p
'hoiarship of thousand dollars and II
order TO make this fund an even &c
lie hundred thousand dollars one q, :
le largest counties was given two :
holarships. In pepeturity a HIM
ed young men and women in tbe
eau state OF Iowa will come tn
'rheii with a duly certified scholar.
Up earned by faithful work in sharn
mpetition in one hundred HIGH
noois or the State. In the course
'he years large number of bright
prainy men and women will,
lht MIN a benefactor who opened to
'ln the way to higher education and
'a'er resultant power and useful
49, IN addition to the generous
above named this man who hoe !
Ter made money the aim or amhi. -
! OF MS life has recently placed
ther one hundred thousand dollars III
Lhe disposal OF the trustees Of tho II
eye with which to endow tbe 8
sident's chair. J
resident King is not only q man
oooks but man of the world z
led through wide and varied ex-
ence as traveller. His journey.
from time to time embroood
~ every part of the United States
idlng Alaska and more recent,v I
west Indies and the Canal zone I
'anana. His first trip abroad
ly a half century ago, gave him
ey OF England, Germany. switzer
Italy and other continental conn
rich In great historic names and 6
vements.
second Journey to the old world
MIN to classic Greece. the de-.
ol all scholars and to France
ountry which today fills so largo
Go IN worldwide interest. Scot.
ana ireland were also taken in