New Presidents

West Virginia. Small (enrollment 3,069) West Virginia University last week announced the appointment as its president of "the outstanding person in the field of education throughout the country." This person was identified as Chauncey Samuel Boucher, U. S. historian and dean of the College at the University of Chicago where he is No. 2 Man of Robert Maynard Hutchins' Chicago Plan.

Distinctly unprofessorial in appearance, slim, wiry Dean Boucher is given to sport clothes, neither looks nor acts his 49 years. Students' chief criticism of him is that he slaps too many backs.

McGill. As the S. S. Duchess of Richmond steamed up the Gulf of St. Lawrence one day last week, Canadian newshawks crowded around a hatch on the top deck. On the hatch cover sat Arthur Eustace Morgan, British principal-elect of McGill University, dangling his long legs and rattling off interviews in English and French. To Englishmen Mr. Morgan is well known as the man who built up University College, Hull, from nothing in seven years. Aware that some Canadians dislike to see an Englishman getting Canada's biggest educational plum, he promised: "I shall keep . . . my mouth closed."

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