Show NEW COLLEGE MEN PRESIDENTS OFTHRKB DAPTIST r INSTITUTIONS t The Ira of lotthfnl College irrldraa i Ito Item lMm > rl l 01111 sad MrtrhM nl Three I neatly aeseos r fat lining Edo u c Special Correspondence UK OBNTLKHKV F whole portraits i with brief ketches f 1 follow AI recently called to preslden CM of loading t unl k j versifies and college r legal under rare of the llsplUt denomination I denomi-nation are exam pin of the fart that young men with a I rn > rd such te to warrant the choice seem now preferred position of this rhnraiter The fact perhope haa a I I certain significance at In harmony j I with what nppcari to be a tendency toward change In educational method I J not prrbnpi radical In character yet of j n kind to represent the Idea of reads read-s justments In certain particular adapt J J 1 I s a 1 t I t 1 I PRESIDENT D LWIimtN lag college work to needs of the time IIII b7tt = tl It li probable that much which long trial haa shown to be best In the or ganhutlon of ueh work will be retained re-tained yet there are sign of whit mar not Inaptly be called an era of good development In sets and wise Jtrec lion lionVcry Ver much of interest has been awakened l by the election nnd acceptance accept-ance of Dr II 1ft Whitman ai preal dent of Columbian University at Washington D C Those who nre Interested In-terested In the future of that Institution Institu-tion have lone been satisfied l that vastly many more of our people north and BOtith should l be to That tills result will follow upon tho acceptance by I > ro > ldent Whitman of this difficult but 1 honorable petition I la n hope I now eagerly eager-ly cherished by many Like the I gentlemen gentle-men of whom wo ore soon to speak President hliman Ii himself a oung man one year younger In fact than his friend at Colgate He li alia specimen < speci-men of the kind of men tho maritime province of Canada from tlmo to lime send to us In the States He li I a tin tire of Nova Scotia born In 1SC1 lilt university course he received Drown and hit theological one nt Newton De coming pastor of Iho lYce Street Hap tilt church In Portland he so won tho admiration and confidence of hit brethren and the public generally as In IkJI after two years of service In I the pastorate to bo chosen president of Colby University Ills election to the presidency of Columbian fulfllll no nro told an earnestly expressed doslro of Ir Welling who fllled that position during so many laborious yours that at eorno time Dr Whitman might become be-come his succcsf Youngest of tho three and like President Presi-dent Whitman n native of Nova Scotia Is I tho now president of Bhurtleff College Col-lege Austen IC do blots He was born PRESIDENT A K DE BLOI8 at Wolfvllle N S twentyeight years ago the son of nor Stephen W ile Riot D n who was for forty year prominently Identified with the history and progress of educational and denominational I de-nominational interests In the maritime provinces nephew also of Rev John I ID or I > 1 > tho first president of Acadia College He studied at Horton j Academy and Acadia College jrradu jillrg from the latter Institution In 18W Irwlilcnte Schtirman of Cornell Corey f Richmond Theological Seminar i i Hand of McMaiter and Anderson formerly of Kalamauo were students at Acadia Before beginning advanced stud ho made an extended tour In Europe On his return he took a course t In graduate studies In history an philosophy at Drown University taklni M A there In 1SS8 and IhD In mHo m-Ho was made a member of the P TUla Ksppa Society by spatial clectlo 11 l 19 Hiring the last Marogridi ate study at Brows he completed the full drat years work at Newton Theo logical Seminary studying further at a later time it Newton and In summer schools The year IKM and a part of MM he spent In a second trip to Europe with Isle bride Studied In Berlin and Lelpslc miking a specialty of philosophy philoso-phy Mr de Illols at the same time pursuing her studies In vorsl music In September Ull be became vice prlnclpal of the Union Baptist Seminary Semi-nary 81 Martins V II and In Istl was made principal The school had Its period of greatest prosperity during the succeeding two yean and the number of pupil greatly Increased He was also ixstor of St Martins IJaptlst church during the latter part of his resilience there In teat he was called to tho presidency of Bhurtleff College being then probably the youngeat cot lego president In the Vnlted States President Smith chosen president of Colgate University at the last com mcnrenwnt of that Institution was already al-ready a member of the faculty at tha time tills new position was offered to him and accepted In the fall of 1M2 be had been elected associate professor of history at Colgate becoming after mo year full professor It la striking proof of Iho high quality of the man In point of character nnd attainment that after an opportunity so brief for making himself known Ills promotion to the headship nf the university was 10 i unanimously made Graduating from Colby Unh ersliy lit Walervllle In 1S6S at the age of twin tone yer bo serve 1 first two years M principal of the high school In WIseasMt Mo Wishing to enjoy n courM of law study lie entered after these two cars the Albany Law School graduating In 1887 with one of the four honors of the class Two years next following were spent In legal practice and editorial labor In St Paul Minn Deciding then upon a course of pottgradutto study he went to Johns Hopkins University In that view hli studies being history English and philosophy Wbtlo so engaged lie delivered de-livered a course of lectures nt Huekntll University Iewlibtirg Penn Reclev Ing now Ibo offer of the professorship In history at Colgate University be accepted ac-cepted the offer In 1892 and has been loco Identified with that Institution President Smith was born nt Water Tllle whore hli father Prof S K 1 Smith held during many years a pro fetsorshlp In what Is now Colb Unl verily Tlio father hlmsilf It one of ear It PRKSIDKNTO w SMITH the graduate of that Institution receiving re-ceiving his degree In ISIS |