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Show A Young University President. The new president of the Northwestern University at Evanston, Ills., Henry Wade Rogers, is only 87 years of age, but has already al-ready acquired a Wide reputation for scholarship. schol-arship. He is a lawyor by profession, and in religion a Methodist. His birth place was Buffalo, N. Y. His parents, Wade by name, died while he was an infant, and he became be-came the adopted son of Mr. Rogers, a wealthy pliilan-tbropist, pliilan-tbropist, who gave hlin every educational educa-tional advantage. He was graduated graduat-ed from Ann Ar- HEN-UT WAOK BOOFIts. hw university iu ! 1S74 and from the law school of the same institution two years latex. Ho practiced at Buffalo and St. Iouis until ISM, when he w as chosen to Buecsed Judge Thomas Oooley as head of the legal department wherein ho had formerly been a pupil. He remained Ann Arbor until elected president pres-ident of tho Northwestern university. |