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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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V THE UNIVEESITY FINDS ITSELF Draper an Administrator, not a Scholar. Increased Appropriations. Defalcation of Spalding. The College of Law. Growth of the Chicago Departments. Development of Curriculum and Equipment. Administrative Improvements. The Coming of Davenport and the Rise of the Agricultural College. The Engineering Experiment Station. Fuller; Student Life. The New State Confidence. was not the first choice of the Trustees as the new head; the post was offered to Washington Gladden and, informally, to Edmund J. James, both of whom declined. Dr. James took the view that a man of aggressive energy and purely executive talents was needed, and that after he had done his work in bringing the State behind the University the personal opposition inevitably roused in the process would probably make his retirement advisable. Dr. Draper did not accept without some misgivings, though these were connected chiefly with the fact that he was not a University man. The essential qualifications of the new President— for by this title he had insisted upon being called—-were his practical experience in public positions and his administrative grasp. He had had the fullest acquaintance with both educators and legislators; he knew the intricacies of politics, and his personality found apt political expression, ff When he came to the University he was forty-four years old. The son of a western New York farmer, his first occupation had been aa ANDREW SLOAN DRAPER 163
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