The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-07-16
Lawrence President
Is a Notable Man

Appleton, Wis. - - - When
Wesleyan university, Middleton, Conn,
thirty-six years ago called Dr. Paul
Raymond Bradford from Lawrence
college here, to become its eighth
president, there was no one to proph-
esq that Lawrence college would some
day call a member of the Wesleyan
faculty to b eits president as was done
recently when Prof. Henry M. Wriston
was elected to that Office.
Prof. Wriston, in accepting, becomes
one of a group of young presidents
of the universities Of the country. He
was 36 years old the day after his
election and is one year younger than
Dr. James Lukens McConaughy who
was installed as president Of Wesley
an university, June 5.
President-elect Wriston was born in
the west but is eastern bred and edu-
Gated as is his wife who was gradu-
ated in 1911 from Vassar college the
same day that the young man, now
her husband, was receiving his sheep
skin from Wesleyan. AS students
they had been in the Central High
school at Springfield, Mass, gradual
ing at the same time in 1907. Presi-
dent Wriston took his master of arts
degree at Wesleyan and did post
graduate work at Harvard for his de-
gree of doctor Of philosophy. Then
he came to Wesleyan as member of
the history department which he
leaves with professional rank.
FAIRGROUNDS.
In one mid-western city the authori-
ties need $250,0o0 at once to enlarge
city playground facilities. But they
hesitate to ask it because the city's
expenses are high already, and they
do want to economic.
But economizing at the expense
of economy, by long shot.
First of all, children have right
to play somewhere, We've built huge
cities and cut thousands of youngs-
tiers off from the open fields and lanes
and streams that all children used
to know, and it's up to US to give
them something else.
Besides, there are plenty of Stats
tics to show that Fairgrounds help
to reduce Juvenile delinquency. A city
that installs plenty of them will re-
ceive dividends later in decreased law
lessness-and the Lord knows all of
our cities could stand change like
that!
Work of President Wriston at
Wesleyan was notable in several
ways, more especially for his studies
of the United States diplomatic SER
vice and his activities in the Institute
of Politics, Williamstown, Mass. In
the former his efforts are taking
shape in a book on Executive Agents.
in American Diplomacy" based on a
series of lectures given at John Hop
kins university last year on the Shaw
Foundation. He wrote the report of
the Connecticut State Council Of De-
Tense, published in 1918, and War
Chest Practice out of his experiences
as a member of the defense council.
He was executive secretary of the
Wesleyan university endowment fund
campaign in 1919 and 1920, and spent
much time in promotional work in
New York and elsewhere as assistant
for the late President w. Arnold
Shanklin. Z
President-elect Wriston who has re-
signed from Wesleyan will take up
his duties with Lawrence on October
/. He will fill vacancy which oc-
Cured November Id, last upon the
death of DR.. Samuel Plantz who had
been the head Of the institution for
thirty years. He was born in Laramie,
Wyoming.
Lawrence college, a coeducational
institution, has a faculty of sixty and
a student body of approximately 900.