Postal Inaugural

The University of Cincinnati last week inaugurated a new president simply by mailing to every U. S. college and university this notice:

"The Board of Directors of the University of Cincinnati announce the election of Raymond Walters, M. A., LL. D., as President of the University, effective September I, 1932. In accordance with the desires of President Walters there will be no formal inauguration."

Cincinnati's president since 1929 had been Dr. Herman Schneider, also dean of the College of Engineering and Commerce, director of the School of Applied Arts and of the Institute of Scientific Research. Because of ill health, Dr. Schneider gave up the presidency last March as he had planned, kept his other jobs. The University board unanimously picked as his successor a small, kindly, 47-year-old man who for ten years as dean of Swarthmore College helped President Frank Aydelotte build up a famed system of honors work.

Before going to Swarthmore, Raymond Walters had been registrar and English instructor at Lehigh University, his Alma Mater (1907). An American Legionary, onetime associate editor of School and Society, he is a member of the board of managers of the famed Bethlehem (Pa.) Bach Choir, about which he wrote a book.

An able pedagogical statistician, he inspects U. S. institutions once a year, analyzes them in a yearly work which is a standard in the field. President Walters brought to Cincinnati much good humor, pleased the football squad by watching them at practice, visiting quarterback Roy Fitzgerald in the hospital the day after he broke a leg in the season's first game.

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