Monday, Jul. 20, 1925
Young Prexies
When Editor Glenn Frank of The Century, aged 38, and Dr. Clarence Cook Little, aged 37, were summoned to the presidencies of the University of Wisconsin and the University of Michigan, respectively (TIME, May 25, July 13), people said: "And such young men!"
Knowing well that a man needs no flowing patriarchal beard to be a college president and that the practice of appointing young men has been tried and proved in the U. S. long before now, The Detroit News last week, published a list of U. S. educators, past and present, and the ages at which they assumed presidential chairs:
COLLEGE OR AGE PRESIDENT UNIVERSITY 28 Helen H. Taft* Bryn Mawr
29 John H. Finley Knox
33 Clarence C. Little Maine
34 Mark Hopkins Williams
35 Andrew D. White Cornell
35 Charles W. Eliot Harvard
35 Henry N. MacCracken Vassar
35 Marion LeRoy Burton Smith
36 Clarence C. Little Michigan
36 Harry W. Chase U. of N. C.
36 David F. Houston Texas Ag.
37 James B. Angell Vermont
38 Glenn Frank Wisconsin
38 Kenyon L. Butterfield Mass. Ag. Col.
38 Jacob G. Schurman Cornell
38 William G. Frost Berea
39 Ernest M. Hopkins Dartmouth
39 David F. Houston Texas
39 Albert Ross Hill Missouri
39 William M. Jardine Kansas Ag.
39 Albert A. Murphree Florida
40 Henry Suzzallo U. of Washington
40 John H. Finley City College, N. Y.
40 Alexander Meiklejohn Amherst
40 Nicholas M. Butler Columbia
40 William H. P. Faunce Brown
40 David Starr Jordan Stanford
41 Ray L. Wilbur Stanford
42 James B. Angell. . ., Michigan
42 William L. Bryan Indiana
42 David F. Houston Washington U.
43 Marion LeRoy Burton Minnesota
43 Stratton D. Brooks Oklahoma
43 Edwin A. Alderman Virginia
44 William O. Thompson Ohio State
45 Harry A. Garfield Williams
45 David Friday Mich. Ag. Col.
45 Sidney E. Mezes Texas
45 Benjamin Ide Wheeler California
46 Marion LeRoy Burton Michigan
46 Woodrow Wilson Princeton
46 Charles R. Van Hise Wisconsin
46 L. D. Coffman Minnesota
46 John P. McNichols U. of Detroit
To this list there should certainly have been added the name of Cloyd H. Marvin, stocky, dynamic onetime aviator, who undertook the presidency of the University of Arizona three years ago at the age of 33. /- Dr. Henry Merritt Wriston, History Professor of Wesleyan University, also qualifies; a fortnight ago, the day before his 36th birthday, he was elected President of Lawrence College (Appleton, Wis.). Also Dr. Charles C. Mierow, 42, from 1923-4
Dean and Acting President of Colorado College. Last week he was elevated to full presidenthood.
* Miss Taft, the now Mrs. Frederick J. Manning, was Acting President in 1919-20.
/- For a vivid account of President Marvin and his work, see the interview granted by him to Editor George Marvin (no relation) in The Outlook for July 8.