The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1923-01-19
DIR BRANNON AND THE MONTANA
CHANCELLORSHIP.

CHANCELLORSHIP.
Tho return of DR.. Melvin A. Bran
nor. former president of the Unlver-
s;tu If Idaho, to the west, has called
forth much favorable newspaper COM
ment on the work accomplished by
DR.. Brannon.
The following regarding DR.. Bran
non,s equipment and his work, coupled
with information regarding his new
nos,t;on as chancellor of the Univer-
.,tu of Montana, appearing in the
large dailies under the caption,
who's Who in the News Of the
Dav.p will be of interest to DR.. Bran
mons many Moscow friends:
Acceptance by DR.. Melvin A. Bran
non. since 1917 president of Belolt
college. as chancellor Of the Univer-
sity Of Montana makes him the exc
c,1tive head of all Montana schools
of HIGHER education. The chancellor
shin was created in 1915. The chan
ce,,or has his office at Helena and
nrasides over the four Montana state
schools which have an enrolment OF
sooo students. These are the School
Of Mines at Butte, the State Agr1cul-
+nra1 and Engineering college at
Rozeman, the College of Letters and
Science at Missoula, and the State
Normal school at Dillon. The presi-
dar+s of the four institutions COM
rr,sa an advisory board and confer
-r;+h the chancellor on matters of col
1egiate Importance.
~ Rrannon takes the post with
-aorfuI record at the Wisconsin
scboo, in his five years, having
brought the school through the I'M
,4a;r DAYS of the war, bettered the
nhus;ca1 plant, and the academic
standards and this resulted In a 20
nor cent increase in enrolment.
THO new chancellor is classical
u.,,aont and a scientist. His under
graduate work at Wabash college was
largely in Latin and Greek and MS
arodrate work in biology. He took
bic doctors degree from the Unlver-
,itv Of Chicago and is member OF
the Phi Kappa, Sigma Phi and Pnl
Da,ta Theta Fraternities.
uo was laboratory assistant in bot
any wabash college, 1SSS-lSSs; IN
structor in natural sciences, Fort
Wavne high school 1S90-lS94, ana
want to the University of North Da-
kato in 1894 as professor of biology
bacame dean of school of medicine IN
1899 and dean of the college Of liberal
arts in 1911, continuing until 1914,
when he accepted the presidency OF
tho University of Idaho, going to
Reloit college as president in 1911
r1o was president of the Wisconsin
Colleges Associated.
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A HUMILIATION TO MANKIND.
rhe Lausanne conference has
raoobed one Of the most cold-blooded'
brutal decisions in history. 1t mas
decided to drive over a million human
ho;nos ont of their homes into for
e;on land Since the expulsion OF the
Hueuenots from France and the Moors
and Jews from Spain, the world has
no+ witnessed a sight like this one.
declares the New York World.
Sly hundred thousand Greeks, many
of whose ancestors were in Asia Minor
long before Alexander marched,
45o 600 Turks whose ancestors have
heen in MACEDONIA for centuries, must
pack up and go. They must leave
tho farms they have titled, the houses
thew have built, the trade they have
managed-the young, the old, they
must go.
The cynical men who agreed to this
crime call it an exchange OF popula-
tions. They use strange words. What
thew are doing is to exchange peas
ants for traders, driving peasants In
70 cities and merchants to farms.
They are wrecking the lives OF mil
lion human beings because they are
wrecking their livelihood.
The utter humiliation Of the civil
,zad world which has been staged in
tba Near East is the direct result OF
the greed and intrigue OF the powers.
This is what the diplomats have done
with a victory won with the blood OF
bonest men in war that was to save
civilization.
r1.e one thousand Yankee boys who |