The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-07-10

The development of the high
schools Of North Dakota will be the
outstanding feature Of development
in the state in the next ten years,
according to Dr. E. Lee Howard, for
three years pastor of st. Anthony
Park Congregational church, st.
Paul, who has been elected president
Of Fargo college, and who has al
ready arrived in Fargo and COM
menced his work.
Fargo college. DR.. Howard says
will do it's part by training teach
| ers.
The first step to that end was
taken Tuesday when the Fargo col
| lege board Of trustees. at the rec
ommendation OF DR.. Howard, voted
to place the college academy under
| direction Of the college department
OF education to cut the course from
| four to three. years. This will make
the academy more essentially a high
school, and preliminary training school
for high school teachers.
DR.. Howard has engaged HeWisop
Pollock and John Bacher, both Of
Fargo. to conduct a canvass through
the state for students. both COM
menc1ng work in Fargo today.
Speaking Of Fargo. DR.. Howard
declared that he was very favorably
impressed with the city. ut is the
| first city 1 have seen without old
buildings in it's business district" he
| said. ut has a brand-new appear
ance."
DR.. Howard expects to spend the
month attempting to work at the col
lege. and to return to st. Paul about
| August 1 to arrange the removal OF
| his family to Fargo by September l.
Rev. E. Lee Howard, D. D., is a
young man in the forties, and brings
| to the work of the college, the en-
| thusiasm and vigor of youth, to-
gether with the mature judgment and
wide experience of manhood.
DR.. Howard was born in Michigan
spent most Of his boyhood in south
ern Kansas, pursued his collegiate
studies, first, at Liberty, Mo-, at the
| leading educational institution of the
Southern Baptist denomination, and
later-after recovery from a severe
and protracted physical breakdown
at Chicago university for three
years. From thence he was called
to the pastorate of Plymouth Con-
gregational church in Columbus
Ohio, the seat of Ohio State univer-
sity; thence, after seven years
pastorate, to the historical First
Congregational church Of Paires-
Vile, Ohio, the seat Of Lake Erie
College for Women; thence, after
six years, to the st. Paul church,
which ministers to the largest num-
Der of teachers and students in the
Agricultural college Of the Mime
sofa university thence, after three
years, to Fargo college.
Scholarly, a popular pulpit ora
tor, largely endowed with saving
common sense and constructive
business ability, Of abundant ca
pacity for hard work and q deep
men and women, DR.. Howard leaves
the ministry to take up college work,
believing that, today especially, the
call for trained young men and
women for usefulness and leader
ship in service, in the great recon-
structive period, which must surely
follow the war, is urgent and para
mount. He believes that Fargo ool-
lege, with it's strategic position, its
fine plant, it's finely trained corps
of teachers, it's splendid student body
and it's loyal alumni is tremendous
ly needed in the worlds work and
has a high mission to perform. He
is not unaware of the financial diff
flcult1eS that beset the. college and
all Christian colleges, particularly
during this war period, but he be-
lieves fully in the intelligence, pro-
gressiveness and loyalty to home in
situations, Of the people of Fargo,
the Red River valley and North Da.-
kota, and invites their hearty CO.
operation and support.
DIR. Towards family consists OF
wife and four children. His wife is
a Kansas girl of old New England
stock, educated at the University OF
Kansas. DR.. Howard in college was
a member of the Phi Gamma Delta
fraternity; he is a Thirty second de-
gree Mason and Shriner.