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Show m; Kerr To Be President of A.C. Z) Board of Trustees Decides It Can Not Do Without Him and Offers $5,000. The public will learn with mingled pleasure and regret that President W. I Kerr, of the Agricultural College of Utah, has been elected president of the Agricultural College of Oregon at a salary of $3,000 a year and has accepted ac-cepted The pleasure comes In the evidence that true merit never goes begging, I that wlso men arc ever looking out for the stone rejected by galoats that they may place It where It belongs as keystone of the arch, that penurious-nessdocs penurious-nessdocs not reign o'er all the globe. The regret comes that the state of Utah should lose such an able executive, execu-tive, such a splendid specimen of physical, mental and moral manhood, that there Is here such an unfortunate lack of the perception that makes other states forge to the front, that our public Institutions are but the footballs of Individuals swayed by personal per-sonal selfishness, political animosity and Ignorant subserviency to aught other than the state's best good educationally. edu-cationally. The message that brought President Kerr the good news and the vindication vindica-tion of himself and friends came yesterday yes-terday morning, and conveyed the Information In-formation that his work Is to begin July 1, 1007, and that his selection had been unanimous on the paitof the Oregon board In chapel Friday morning President Kerr spoke of the matter, wished the A. O. well, and by the students was cheered to the echo. |