The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1919-12-12

Land as an humble professor of civics
and History and was made President
of Stetson University.
1t is unusual in all large colleges to
grant the president vacation of one
year every seven, or what is known
as the Sabbatical year.
Doctor Hulley has been on the job
continuously and during this sixteen.
years period, has trebled the endow-
ment which amounts to more than a
million dollars at this time, doubled
the enrolment, added three large sub
stantial brick buildings and twenty
five acres of very valuable city prop
erty of DeLand to the campus.
The greatest achievement that he
has brought about at Statson Univer
sity is peace among the faculty, trus-
tees. and with the citizens of Volusia
county.
Teachers and professors as a rule
are temperamental, and no one knows
this fact better than Doctor Lincoln
Hulley.
During his campaign he returns 20
DeLand about once every two weeks
and advises with each member of his
faculty individually regarding his poll
teal activities and this makes him
formidable. for the reason that every
professor at Stetson who has been
there for any length of time has
friends among the alumni scattered
all over Florida.
The trustees have given Doctor
Hulley a years absence on full pay
and while the minutes of the meeting
in which this action was brought
about does not state it was for the
purpose of making a campaign for
the exalted position as Governor Of
Florida. at the asme time it is dis
tinctly understood that every one of
them would be tickled to death TO see
him succeed.
| met Doctor Hulley eighteen years
ago and at that tine he had on silk
hat and coat that extended below his
knees.
Yesterday | asked him about the
hat. and was informed that it had
been carefully polished off and put
among the moth balls until January
| 3. 1921. at which time it would be dug
up.
| recognized the same necktie worn
eighteen years ago which is at this
date good for campaign use and is be-
! ing utilized.
Doctor Hulley viii become formid
able.
Jim Alexander has taught him how
TO extend the glad hand. and the
pupil in some instances becomes
more proficient than the preceptor
Doctor HUXLEY is a Baptist. but IS
not making his campaign on isms,
schisms. ologies. doxlogies, or reli-
gious issues of any kind
He is keeping in the middle of the
road on these issues.
Somebody has evidently informed
! him that sinners can vote.
1t is sure that educators, which are
big influence. will be with Doctor
Huley.
Those with literary inclinations will
also support him for the reason that
when ii comes to literature he is head
and shoulders above the craft in the
state of Florida.
When it comes to quoting poetry he
/ is shine. and the only man / know
OF in all Florida who can deliver a
lecture and quote poetry that will ap-
peal to an every day mind.
l know what l am talking about.
He delivered a lecture and quoted
poetry from Tennyson to a standstill
in Tallahassee last spring when the
| legislature was in session, and was
listened 10 with close attention and
real enjoyment.
Formerly the road to the Bishopric
in the great Southern Methodist
church was through presidency of a
college, as very few in the college of
bishops OF that great church were
taken from active pulpit work.
DR.. Hulley evidently figures that
sixteen years active and constructive
service as administrator OF one OF
IFlorida's foremost institutions OF
higher learning should be his strong
est recommendation to the people OF
Florida for the greatest honor that