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ranks who has returned to lead and direct our efforts. In con- 
gratulating you we are congratulating Denison, we are congratu- 
lating ourselves. We pledge to you the loyalty and support 
which we have ever accorded to past administrations. We gladly 
welcome you as our President believing in you and in our 
College. 
ADDRESS BY MISS McCUTCHEON. 
To step from the undergraduate file and rank of Shepardson 
women to address this gathering would be no slight ordeal, save 
for the peculiar pleasure which Shepardson students feel in ex- 
pressing to you. Dr. Chamberlain, their hearty congratulations 
upon your assuming the Presidency of Denison University. 
Since its founding, seventy-nine years ago, Shepardson Col- 
lege has been under the control of broad-minded, public-spirited 
educators. Its students feel today very much like congratulat- 
ing themselves that they have secured as their present leader a 
man who will not only help perpetuate the ideals of the past, but 
who will add to these ideals the interest and vigor of a life so 
largely devoted to the education of college men and women. You 
come to us. Dr. Chamberlain, after five years of effective service 
at Vassar College, and in the short time you have been with us 
as President, you have thoroughly demonstrated that you are in 
complete sympathy with the higher education of women, and that 
it will be one of your duties and pleasures here at Granville to 
lend to that movement your earnest support. 
A few months ago you had occasion to address an assembly 
of Shepardson women. I cannot forget how you told us then that 
your interest in the higher education of women was one of the 
things which drew you back to Denison as President. 
In a college such as Denison, which is first of all a college of 
liberal arts, and which has at the same time won recognition for 
its strong scientific departments, it is peculiarly gratifying that 
we should have as our head a man whose scientific training and 
brilliant scientific achievements have been based upon a sound 
classical course. We feel that as a result, you are in such thor- 
ough accord with the ideals of Denison that all of our student 
problems will receive at your hands a broad-minded and sympa- 
thetic consideration. 
