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Show NEW SUPEITEIEHT : OF SALT. LfiKE SCHOOLS Salt Lake, April 25.' By unanimous vote of the city board of education, Ernest A. Smith, Ph. D of Meadville, Pa., was designated last night for election elec-tion to the position of superintendent of the public school system of Salt Lake. Dr. Smith will be elected on the second sec-ond Tuesday in .Tune, following the retirement re-tirement of Superintendent D. H. Christensen. At the present time he Is professor of history and economics at Allegheny college, Meadville. The designation of Dr. Smith for the position came at the conclusion of a four-hour meeting of the board of education in the offices of President W. J. Barrette in the McCornlck building. build-ing. During the first two hours of tho meeting Dr. Smith was present and answered numerous questions asked by the ten board members. Finally excused, he went to his room at tho Hotel Utah and to bed, to bo called at midnight and told that he had been designated. - Compromise Choice. Following the departure of Dr. Smith from the presence of the board, a long discussion aB to the advisability of naming him as tho choice of the board for the superintendency was Indulged in. Dr. Smith was admitted- s ly the compromise choice of those who stood for an outside candidate, H. B. Wilson of Topeka, Kan., and B. B. Jackson of Minneapolis, Minn., being, respectively, first choice with various members of the hoard. Not until a thorough understanding of the position of the majority or the members of the board indicated that Dr. Smith would win on a vole was a ballot tnken. It proved to be unanimous unani-mous a record, according to President Presi-dent Barrette and Dr. Smith was duly declared the chosen candidate. When notified last night that he had been selected, Dr. Smith expressod gratification and a hope that he would be able to justify the confidence of the board The salary of the superintendency, superin-tendency, as tendered to him, remains the same as at present, J4S00 a year. During the progress of tho meeting Dr. Smith was called upon to recite his scholastic record and to answer pertient questions as to his experience experi-ence along linos calculated to qualify him for the position to which he was chosen. Briefly he outlined this record re-cord to a reporter for The Tribune. Prominent Churchman. Mr Smith was born at Fletcher, Ohio, July 4, 1SG8. He received the degree of A B. at Ohio Wcsleyan university uni-versity in 1S88 and his A. M. degree in 1S91 and his Ph. D. at Johns Hopkins Hop-kins univorsity In 1900. ne studied at Oxford university, England, in 1906, and at the University of London in 1907. Dr. Smith said that his experience In superintendency work was had in Georgia before he entered collegiate work as profpssor of history and economics econ-omics at Allegheny college in 189S. He was principal of the Valdosta Collegiate Col-legiate institute. Valdosta, Ga,, 1890 to 1893. He is unmarried. By religious relig-ious persuasion he is a Methodist. At Meadville ho was prominent and active ac-tive in church and Sunday school work. Dr. Smith was a perceptor In history, his-tory, politics and economics at Princeton Prince-ton university in 1910; lecturer on southern history at the Chautauqua assembly, New York, 1901; instructor, social economics, Chautauqua Institution, Institu-tion, 1901, and Albert Shaw lecturer in diplomatic history, Johns Hopkins university, 190S. He is a member of the American History association, tho American Economic association, Southern History association and the Phi Beta Kappa and Beta Thetn PI fraternities. As an author, Dr Smith has to his credit "The History of the Confederate Confeder-ate Treasurv," in 1901; "Hildebrand, the Builder." 1908. and "The Diplomatic Diplo-matic Contest for the Ohio Valley," 1909. |