Evening star., 1925-06-09

Unusual attention has been attract
ed by the drafting of Glenn Frank
from his post as editor of the Century
Magazine to serve as president of the
University of Wisconsin. While DIR.
Franks preparation included four
years as assistant to the president of
Northwestern University, he has been
an editor and publicist rather than an
educator, in the ordinary sense, and
his selection by Wisconsin is viewed
as bringing a new force Into the col
lege field.
The university under President
Frank will be no dull place." the ST.
Paul Dispatch believes. His whole
career has touched closely on scholar
ly interests and pursuits" The st.
Paul paper continues: THE presi-
dency of so great university as Wis
consin is an exacting position. 1t re-
quires scholar who is also a compe-
tent man of affairs, and if he is also a
publicist and a successful lecturer, as
Mr.. Frank is, so much the better. Be-
sides possessing all these qualities, Mr..
Frank is man of many and vigorous
'convictions.' A further estimate of
his character is made by the Duluth
Herald, which states: He sees things
whole, in all their intricate relations
with other things. His fertile and GU
rious mind probes beneath the sur
face, seeking and finding the general
principles that explain and guide. And
he cannot go far wrong on the princi-
pie that he lays down when he says
that he will be loyal to the thought
that sound policy must grow out of
honesty and an unhampered investi-
cation of the fact"
wisconsin has probably made no
mistake in choosing Frank for the
presidency of it's great university"
declares the Lincoln State Journal, In
paying tribute to one who left the
community abuzZ with the Stilnula-
ton of his mind and personality" on
the occasion when he was a com
mencement orator at Nebraska's s uni
versity. For some time he has had
the look of being one of the country's
best brains" adds the State Journal.
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The Ohio State Journal says Frank
has been a leader of thought as edi-
tor of the Century and will be expect
ed to continue to lead when he takes
up his new work" What he brings to
the university .is vision of young
manhood, virile mind, a good ply
sique and an ambition to. succeed
modernist in all things" remarks the
Janesville Gazette.
An insight into events as they are
is credited to Mr.. Frank by the Chris
tian Science Monitor "Those who di-
rect the policies of representative
magazines or newspapers" the Moni-
tor explains, gain an intimate back
stage view, as it were, of much that is
going on in the public thought. Not
all of the knowledge thus gained is
displayed in print. Its exploitation
would not always be helpful. No good
end would be served thereby. But
one who gains, through experience
and direct contact, an appreciation of
these varying phases of thought and
opinion is admittedly better equipped
to analyZe them and to classify and
segregate that which is constructive
and helpful than are those who, no
matter how conscientiously and stu
diously, seek to adapt theoretical
knowledge to the solution of perplex-
ing human problems The South
Bend Tribune believes, too, that Mr..
Frank has charm of personality and
is at the right age to begin in Wiscon-
sin an administration of yigor and
policy in tune with the times"
The question of closer co-opera-
tion between public life and univer-
sity activities is emphasized by the
Brooklyn Eagle. 1T is Glenn Frank s
theory" states the Eagle, that a
State university should be the raj
lying ground and, repository for the