The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1920-07-24
new PRESIDENT MAY
Be SELECTED SOON
COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATION
BRYAN GIVES INFORMATION
ON PRESENT STATUS

Inability to pay as high salarie
as other states is handicapping tn
board of education of Idaho in secur
ing a successor to President Lindley
of the University of Idaho, according
to statement made today by DR.. e
A. Bryan, state commissioner of edu
cation, who is here looking after the
interest of the university
DR.. Bryan says the prospects fol-
obtaining a strong man are good
however, as number of good mer
are under consideration. Several
very strong men might have been
available could higher salary than
the $4,000 permitted by the state, be
paid. Some eight or 10 applications
have been considered by the board,
some being rejected and others being
still under consideration. DIR. Bryan
expressed the hope that definite an
nouncement Of the selection of a
president might be made within the
next few weeks, in ample time for the
new president to arrive at Moscow
for the opening of the school year,
about the middle of September.
"The outlook for attendance is very
seen it better at this season. The
u
the university has never been as good
as at present. There is a feeling of
optimism that is encoura ging and
vastly different from the feeling of
pessimism that has prevailed on
former occasions when a president
has left the school,"
The new boys dormitory, being
built by Moscow citizens, is moving
rapidly to completion and the brick
work will be finished soon The
dormitory will be ready for occup-
.ancy before the fall term opens and
DR. Bryan expressed the belief that
it will do much toward increasing the
the enrolment. He said: "I do not
believe the people of Moscow realize
what splendid piece of work this is,
or the real Importance of what they
have done. | regard it as one of |
the best pieces of work done by Mos |
COW citizens since the university was
established here"
Speaking of the summer schools in |
the various institutions, DR.. Bryan
said: "We have had an enrolment of |
more than HOO in the four summer
schools that admitted elementary |
students. These are located at Lew
iston, Albion, Pocatello and Boise,
where the states normal schools are
The summer session of
Friday was also highly successful DR..
Bryan left here for Lewiston and
after inspecting. the state normal
school there will go to his home in
Boise. He will be here several times
again before the fall opening of the
DR.. Bryan fears there may be a
of conditions at the
owing to statements that
in the press recently, to the
effect that he would have charge of I
The university until a successor to |,
DR.. Lindley is secured. He said:
'"That there may be no misappre-
tension by the public or members Of
he university relative to certain
statements and head lines in The
star-Mirror and The Spokesman-Re-
view recently, l would explain that
he commissioner of education will be
n no sense acting president or ad
interim president while the new
PRESIDENT is being selected. The stu
ltion is this:
cat all times the board Of regents
ave general supervision and full con-
rol of the affairs Of the university.
citing usually through the commits
ioner of education and the president t
f the university President Lindley t
) de facto president up to August Is.
/ well organized institution will t
perate satisfactorily in most things f
4 the absence of it's president. In S
xecutives matters requiring board t.
ction during the interim it will as a
ume full responsibility through the f.
until the new president il
chosen. This, undoubtedly, was the P
leaning of the items referred to, but &
l some cases without doubt, some "
light misapprehensions arose." C
AXE LITTLE INTEREST IN t