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Caption: Book - Banks of the Boneyard (Charles Kiler)
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Picking a College President 89 It is imperative that the new university president has the confidence and respect of the rest of the college world. He must stand high in scholastic and scientific circles, not alone in his own country but abroad as well. No matter how well known a man may be in public life, no matter how many high positions he may have held in the affairs of men, this investigating committee will not decide on a man unless he has the O K of men who constitute the university world. That is why so many men who have worked hard to make their own departments outstanding are the ones chosen to be president of their own or some other university. Witness the selection of Conant at Harvard, Dodd at Princeton, and Willard at Illinois, among those recently chosen. University faculties are polled to find outstanding men, and the opinion of scholars and scientists is eagerly sought by the committees who have assumed this tremendous task of getting the best man for this all important position. A man who has brought his own department up to a commanding position among similar departments in the university world, must be something more than a scholar. He is an executive of a high order or he would not be able to hold men already on his staff and to attract others to his department. For after all, the faculty is the backbone and sinew of any great university. Students from all over the world are attracted by a well known name in scientific or scholastic work. High school principals recommend universities because of the standing of the faculty. For all of these reasons I feel sure that most committees charged with the responsibility of choosing a new president for dear old Alma Mater, will ultimately select a man who is quietly but vigorously making a success of his own department—whatever that department may be.
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