New Presidents

Amherst College, couched in classical traditions, announced last week its tenth president--Dr. Arthur Stanley Pease, for three years its professor of Latin. President Pease is not an Amherst man. He received his bachelor's, master's and doctor's degrees at Harvard. He taught at Harvard, Radcliffe and the University of Illinois before coming to Amherst. He is less of a liberal than Dr. Alexander Meiklejohn, Amherst's eighth president; he is less of an administrator than Dr. George D. Olds, Amherst's ninth president. But, as a distinguished scholar, he fulfills the presidential needs of a small New England college.

Oberlin College, a Congregational co-educational institution in Oberlin, Ohio, last week invited a stranger to come within its gates. Incognito, he inspected the campus with Mrs. Katherine Wright Haskell,* one of Oberlin's trustees. Next day, having returned to Chicago and consulted his wife, he telegraphed his acceptance of the presidency of Oberlin. He is the first non-theologian to hold this office. His name and accomplishments: Dr. Ernest Hatch Wilkins, 46, professor of romance languages at the University of Chicago since 1916, War-time teacher of French to doughboys, author of Army French as well as Dante--Poet and Apostle, graduate of Amherst College. Some say President-elect Wilkins looks and thinks like the late Woodrow Wilson.

At Oberlin he succeeds able Henry Churchhill King, president since 1902.

*Sister of the Wright brothers--Orville and the late Wilbur, famed aeronauts.