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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY 



stalled at the University of Minnesota, 

 President Brown at New York Univer- 

 sity, President Murlin at Boston Uni- 

 versity, President Hodges at the Uni- 

 versity of West Virginia, President 

 Benton at the University of Vermont 

 and President Bowman at the State 

 University of Iowa. The deadlock at 

 Princeton University has been broken 

 by the election of Dr. John Grier Hib- 

 ben, Stuart professor of logic, after the 

 offer of the position had been declined 



Dr. Edwin B. Frost, 



Director of the Yerkes Observatory, 



Vice-president for Mathematics 



iind Astronomy. 



NEW VNIVEBSITY PBESIDENTS 



There is no decline in the birth rate 



of university presidents. Within a few 



months President Vincent has been in- 



Dr. Robert A. Millikan, 

 Associate Professor of Physics at the 

 University of Chicago, Vice- 

 president for Physics. 



Dh. Chas. S. Howe, 



■ 'resident of the Case School of Api^lied 



Science, Vice-president for Mechanical 



Science and Engineering. 



liy Dr. J. M. T. Finney, the Baltimore 

 surgeon. It seems that any one who 

 has attended one of these functions of 

 installation, where many presidents 

 gather on the stage, must have noticed 

 the diversity of type, the scholar and 

 the politician, the man of science and 

 the promoter, the hereditary gentleman 

 and the climber, all being in evidence. 

 A gift for oratory seems to be almost 

 the only common trait and even here 

 the variety is niore noticeable than the 

 similarity. 



One may wonder what trait or ac- 



