Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-07-08
ELLIOTT PRAISED
IN RESOLUTIONS
BY STATE COLLEGE
Branch of University Expresses
Regret at Leaving of
Chancellor.
Tribune's Helena Bureau

Helena, July 7.-Expressiop of re
greet at the relinquishing by DR.. Z. {.
Elliott Of the office of chancellor uf
the University Of Montana is expressed
in a set of resolutions just received by
DR.. Elliott from the faculty and stats
of the Montana state college nj Boze-
man.
After having been in charge of the
work of the several institutions com
p~rising the University of Montana for
nearly seven years. DIR. Elliott will
assume the presidency of Purdue uni
yersity in Indiana. to which he was
elected several weeks ago.
The resolutions, which were for
warded to him by President Alfred
Atkinson of the Montana state college,
are signed by Il committee consisting
Of J. NJ. Hamilton. former president
of the college and now professor of
economies; +. r. Norris. dear of the
college of engineering; W. F. Brewer,
professor of English: F. s. Cooley.
director of agricultural extension. and
X. A. Cooley, entomologist. They are
as follows:
ITO Chancellor Edward C. Elliott:
THE farculty and staffs of the
Montana state college of the Uni
NtTSlty VI NlOutdid lave HedTu with
sincere regret of the resignation of
Edward c. Elliott. chancellor of the
university.
I'VE of this institution have support
ed the chancellor Fundamentally be-
cause we have believed thar the unified
plan of administration and leadership
is the most significant movement in the
history of higher education in Mon
tana, and one of special import to
higher education throughout the nation.
At this time we are glad Il give to
Chancellor Elliott an expression of our
deep gratitude to him. and Of our sense
of appreciation of the outstanding sue
cess he has achieved in his educational
leadership.
First. We place the fine spirit of
cooperation that has been cultivated
among all the higher institutions of the
state; and the unification of effort that
has been brought about through his
leadership. This spirit permeates not
only the officers, staffs, alumni and
student bodies, but in a marked degree
the citizenship of the state.
Second, we call attention to the
fact that under Chancellor Elliott's ad-
ministratiOn the people of Montana
have grown steadily more appreciative
Of the work of the higher educational
institutions, and higher education has
taken on a new meaning in Montana.
Third, we would direct special at
tention to his work as A pioneer in a
new type of educational administration.
The unification of widely separated
educational institutions under a single
administrative head was in the highest
degree experimental at the time when
the chancellorship was established. The
<pn1toac tkA ,nnfnn1n Al.
of such an office were unsolyed pro-
blems. DR.. Elliott leaves the office Of
the chancellor as a going concern, an
established and recognized type of edu-
cational office.
Fourth, among the specific large
achievements Of his administration, we
wish to emphasize the following:
a. A comprehensive, farsighted,
and adequately financed building pro-
gram, upon which we have already
entered;
b. The successful financing of the
f~uture~ support of higher education in
Montana, at a time when the only
alternative was a backward step, if not
utter disaster.
c) The establishment of a sound
system of financial control within the
university through a budget system.
i'm, Tue ESTABLISHMENT OF q system
OF rules relating to the appointment to
the university stats which ~insures to
the members reasonable tenure of
office in our judgment sets up a policy
that will provide the very best environ
ment for successful educational en-
deavOr, and conditions which will at
tract and hold the best workers.
And last, we desire to express to
the chancellor our personal good wishes
in his new field of endeavor, and our
hope that his interest may continue in
the University of. Montana to which he
has SO freely given the best years of
his life; and that we may many times
welcome him back to Montana to wit
ness the educational growth and pros
perlty which will be so largely the fruit
of his labOrs."