DR. McCONAUGHY TO BECOME PRESIDENT OF WESLEYAN

Announcement has been made that Dr. James L. McConaughy, who has been president of Knox College since 1918, has resigned his position there to accept the presidency of Wesleyan University at Middletown, Conn. Prior to his acceptance of the presidency of Knox College Dr. McConaughy had been actively associated with the faculty and administrative work at Dartmouth. He came to Dartmouth in 1915 as Professor of Education and Director of the Summer Session. During the disorganization incident to the war he was also actively engaged in the administrative offices of the College.

While at Knox, President McConaughy was able to effect a reorganization of the campus life on a more democratic basis by bringing the fraternities to the campus and by the inauguration of a Commons where all the men of the college, fraternity and non-fraternity, could gather socially.

During his administration the resources of the college increased from $1,000,000 to nearly $2,500,000, the endowment being practically doubled. He likewise effected a limitation of numbers in the freshman class to 250 students and greatly increased the proportionate number of men students, the college as a whole expanding from 399 to more than 600. His resignation of a commons where all the men of the the present semester.