Evening journal., 1921-10-17

] . " Az AlhO T. + I'd ne toiu-
ing Inauguration Of Frank Aydelotte
as president OF swarthmore College
promises to be the greatest single
event in the history OF the Quaker
institution. The exercises will be
held next Saturday morning on the
college campus before a notable
gathering Of educators, college pres
idents and public men.
Delegates from more than $50
universities, colleges, learned and
professional societies will be present.
Representation Of the delegates
ranges from Maine to Florida and
/ from Massachusetts, to California.
oxford University. seat Of English
culture, will be represented by Prof.
Roger Biglow Merriman, b. LIT,
Phi. d.
President Aydelotte succeeds Dr.
Joseph Swain, who was president OF
the college for eighteen years. The
new president was formerly pro-
fessor OF English in the Massachu-
setts Institute Of Technology. He re-
ceived the A. b. degree at Indiana
University in 1900. and the A. NJ. al
Harvard in 1908. In 1906 he entered
oxford University as Rhodes
scholar from Indiana, and received
the research degree OF Bachelor OF
Letters in 1908.
During the war. President Ayde-
iotte was national director OF the
War Issues Course in the Committed
on Education and Special Training
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served as American secretary to the
Rhodes scholarship trustees since
, 1918. He is a member OF the Phi
Beta Kappa and Of the Sigma Nu
fraternities.
The new president gained a ma
tion-wide reputation in educational
circles for his advocacy Of the teach-
: ing of English literature and com.
= position. primarily from the point
= OF view OF thought rather than OF
form, and OF so altering the under
=. graduate curriculum and examina
e ton system Of American institutions
as to emphasize the thorough train
. ing OF the best students instead o.
being content with the attempt e
! bring the whole student body Of an
b institution to a higher average.
President Aldelotte is president o
r. the New England Association o
. Teachers OF English. chairman o
I Committee G OF the American Asso
p. citation OF University Professors
which Is studying means Of cult
waiting the intellectual interests
D undergraduates. and chairman OF
= newly organized committee OF tn
Modern Language Association 70
making reproductions Of early Eng
! lish manuscripts for the use o
American scholars. He is a membe
OF the Council Of the Society for IN
Promotion OF Engineering Educa
a tion. and has been prominently iden
y tilted for the past six years wit
! the movement toward the liberaliz
"A ing OF technical training in tn
u country.
Among the national figures IN ed
ucationai circles from the west VIII
will be present for the inauguratio
are Ray Lyman Wilbur. president
. Leland Stanford Jr. University, "a
ifornia and Henry Suzzalo, pres
dent OF the University OF Washing
ton. Ernest II. Lindley. chanceli'
10 Of the University OF Kansas. an
4 President Charles +. Thwing.
n Western Reserve College. will be
y attendance. together with Presidei
le In. w. Chase. University OF Mort
I Dakota, and President p. 3. Woo
10 worth OF the Rose Polytechnic II
. stitute at Terre Haute, Ind.
Among those numbered from n
ls Middle West are Prof Thomas 4
u Jenkins. OF the University of Ch
! cago. swarthmore graduate OF Il
class OF 81, well-known langual
scholar; Prof A. NJ. Brooks, iudiar
University, curator of prints
, Heron Art Institute at Indianapoli
and Alfred H. Lloyd, dean Of II
University Of Michigan.
President Alexander Meiklejoh
- OF Amherst; Dean W. L. Cross.
,r Yale University; Dean Paul Nixo
ID OF Bowdoin: President II. A. Ca
IN field. Of williams College: Prof. I
n p. Talbot. OF Massachusetts, Institui
er OF Technology, and Prof. Frank
e. Cady. Of Middlebury College, are II
r cluded in the list OF representativ,
from the New England States.
at One OF the prominent men fro
n. the South Is Harry W. Chase, pres
dent OF the University Of Mort
Carolina, noted educator OF bacl
ers ward children. W. X. Boyd. DR.
ply fessor OF history at Trinity COLES
dy. has also accepted an invitation