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P:Because the University of Virginia had been without a full president for nearly two and one-half years, alumni, faculty and students lately began prodding the Board of Visitors to appoint one. Most of them urged the name of Dr. John Lloyd Newcomb who had assisted the late Dr. Edwin Anderson Alderman since 1926 and who became acting president upon his death (TIME, May 11, 1931). To arguments that Virginia should get a nationally-known president they replied that Harvard with James Bryant Conant and Princeton with Harold Willis Dodds had taken comparatively little-known men from their own ranks. Last week the Visitors complied. Born 51 years ago in Sassafras, a Virginia fishing village. Dr. Newcomb was once a railway location engineer. A William & Mary graduate, he studied engineering at Virginia, became assistant professor in 1905, dean of the Engineering School in 1925.

P:Last week President Harry Augustus Garfield of Williams College. 70 this week. announced his retirement next June 30. He quoted famed Mark Hopkins: "I wish to resign that it may not be asked why I do not resign." Son of the 20th President of the U. S., Dr. Garfield practiced law in Cleveland, taught at Western Reserve and Princeton, became Williams' president in 1908. In 1917 Woodrow Wilson appointed him U. S. Fuel Administrator. Dr. Garfield is celebrated as earnest Dry and as founder of the Williamstown Institute, summer symposium of wise minds on world problems.

P:Last week Dr. Hugh Potter Baker, 55, was inaugurated as president of Massachusetts State College. A onetime field worker in the U. S. Forest Service, he organized forestry courses at Iowa State, built up New York State College of Forestry (largest of its kind), organized the Trade Associations Department of the U. S. Chamber of Commerce. He is a brother of Author Ray Stannard Baker (David Grayson).

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