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Show Resignation of President Adams. The educational world of both continents con-tinents suffers loss In the resignation of Charles Kendall Adams, president of the University of Wisconsin, which expresses its appreciation of his services serv-ices by giving him indefinite leave of absence instead of accepting his resignation. resig-nation. Dr. Adams retires to a milder climate on account of ill health. Dr. Adams arrived at the University of Wisconsin when it was in urgent need of his intellectual resources, his reserve, fortitude and precision. Under Un-der a flabby administration the delinquencies delin-quencies of some of its faculty would have inflicted grave injury upon the institution. His discretion in vicissitudes vicissi-tudes overcame the ill effects of pernicious per-nicious subaltern teaching. His moral DR. CHARLES KENDALL. ADAMS, aims were promoted with reticence and dignity and throughout his tenure the University of Wisconsin has risen to a foremost place in higher education, both abstract and practical. The president of the modern university univer-sity must possess the comprehensive and genial culture derivable from antiquity. an-tiquity. He must walk, however, with the quickening music of humanity, which is no longer "still" nor "sad." It is a trumpet blast that calls nations now, and it is given to the United States to be In the fore. |