Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-04-04

Noted Minnesota University
Man Died Monday Of
Heart Failure.

Minneapolis, April 4.-FnnerAl ar
rangements were being completed, to-:
day for DR.. Cyrus Northrop, president
emeritus of the University of Mime
sofa, who died suddenly Of heart dis,
ease at his home here late yesterday,
in his seth year. ). 49,
From all parts Of the country mes
sases poured in today, expressing uni
Versal sorrow in his passing and laud-
Ing his life work as an accomplish
! ment OF one OF the foremost educators
! of his day. Over the state and es-
pecially on the university campus, q
pail Of sorrow hung.
Burial Late This Week.
Funeral arrangements are being
| planned by a group of friends in ac-
! cordance with the wishes of DR..
Northrop. The funeral will take place
Wednesday or Thursday, it was an
bounced.
DR.. "A. NJ. Eastman, for six years
the Forthrop family physician, issued
q statement today announcing that
! death. 'N@
"1)r. Northrop had not been in ro-
bust health for the last two or three
years." the statement said.
For the past two or three months
he had unusually good health. until
the present attack"
Flags few at half mast over the
campus buildings today while In the
! office of Dean w. Rappleby of the
group Of intimate friends of the presi-
dent-emerttus who are planning his
funeral. y
Cyrus Northrop, second president
Of the University Of Minnesota, and
the man to whom that institution
owes It's greatest development came to
Minnesota in 1884, when the West
Still was the West" From an institu-
ton, which was a college of liberal
arts" and an o~ld-fashioned asricul-
tural school, he developed q Univers-
ity Of colleges with ar attendance Of
more than 5000 students, and q
faculty OF twice as many men and
women as there were students during
his first ear Fl
Dr. Northrop was born at Ridge
field, Conn, September so. 1884: He
graduated from Yale in 1857 with the
degree Of A. B. He continued pos
graduate work and received the de-
after coming to the University Of Min
nesota he was given the honorary de
gree Of Doctor Of Laws by Yale ant
| IN 1905 was given the honor Of thu
degree of LID. from the Universit!
of Wisconsin, from the University o
Illinois and from the South Caroline
college.
Taft Was His Pupil.
After finishing his college work h,
was for one year an editor ON the New
Haven Palladium, during which tim
he wrote man editorials which late
were reprinted.
IL tn 1QR9 Afr Nnrfhrnn haooro nrn
fessor of rhetoric and English litera
7 ture at Yale.II Fol twenty-one year
he taught at that: institution. William
Howard Taft, being one of his stu
dents. .$..% 40.
There is little: DOUBT that Dl
'i,ENorthrop would have been mad
n president Of Yale sUniversity had h
mot elected to GONE to the Universit
ct Minnesota: 8tsthe timesh he did. L
member Of .thefYale faculty, and wa
held to bel<thei natural successor t
President Porter. :,
At the time DR.. Northrop came t
Minnesota, the state and the Univers
ity Of Minnesota were not OF sue
recognized importance in h s 9
, to seem q lure to a young man. n
came to the University when Their
: were 223 students on the roll.
Made 'U'' Ono. of Best.
During the quarter of q century tn
institution vas under his guidance h
brought the University of Minnesot
to a place where it wa ranked anon
the first Ave state universities in tn
the University Of Minnesota in pal
ticular is considered his memorial.
Dr.. Northrop did not leave the I'm
versity in 1911; his ''emeritus' pres
dency was an active presidency. H
was always working for the, best ii
terests of the institution.
The tribute paid DR.. Nort11rop o
the celebration of his eightieth, brit
day by Judge Ell Torrance, is bein
paid to him today by the entire NORTH
west and those who knew his worl