PROFESSOR McCONAUGHY CHOSEN PRESIDENT OF KNOX COLLEGE

Dr. James Lukens McConaughy, Professor of Education and Director of the Summer Session in Dartmouth College since 1915, has been elected to the presidency of Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois. President McConaughy in the three years that 'he has been connected with the College has come into intimate relations with large numbers of the alumni, through his work as secretary of the committee on admission, which has taken him about the country as an inspector of secondary schools and has given him frequent opportunity of addressing gatherings at which Dartmouth men were present in large numbers. Everywhere he has won the respect and liking of those who have come in contact with him, and all, although they will regret that Dartmouth must now lose his valuable services, will rejoice in the new honors and opportunities for extended work that have come to him.

President McConaughy is a graduate of Yale in the class of 1909, and between the time of his graduation and his coming to Dartmouth served at Bowdoin as instructor in English, assistant professor of English and education, and professor of education, successively. He received the degree of A.M. from Bowdoin in 1911, and of Ph.D. from Columbia in 1913. While at Dartmouth he has built up the Summer Session to a state of efficiency not reached previously, he has proved an able teacher in his chosen field, and he has labored incessantly to improve the relations between the. College and the secondary schools which prepare men for entrance to Dartmouth. His services have been especially valuable since the College withdrew from the New England Certificate Board and established its own system of certificates. Last year, while President Hopkins was in Washington, Dr. McConaughy acted as Secretary to the College. He began his labors at Knox College on the first of September.

Knox College, to which Dr. McConaughy goes, is the second oldest college in the state of Illinois. It is a co-educational institution with an enrolment of between five and six hundred students. Its scholastic standing is notably high: it is the only Illinois college on, the original Carnegie pension list; it is the only college in the state with a chapter of Phi Beta Kappa; and it is one of the five colleges west of the Allegheny Mountains on the 1914 Class A list of the United States Bureau of Education. Last year Knox College successfully closed a campaign to raise its endowment fund to a million dollars.

Dartmouth College and her alumni wish President McConaughy the highest success in his new field.