the whole year, and has continued it up to the present time. In this way the problem of the three mouths' vacation with nothing to do is solved. It is a saving of valuable time. Another item emphasized by him, often to his temporary discomfort, is that graduation should never depend upon the how long, but the how much. The time a student spends in school is not the important thing with him, but the work he does while in school. This rating of students has caused some caustic criticism from our colleges, and subjected his work to the charge of superficiality. Whatever be the justice or injustice of such charges he still believes the world must come to that basis.

Another item he has tried to carry into effect, is the flexibility of the college courses to meet the wants of the times. Some courses should be more extensive than others. Give the most thorough preparation in the shortest time.

These ideas have worked in and through the brain of Dr. Lehr and he has admirably demonstrated in part their claims upon the educational institutions of our land.

But President Lehr will be better known because of his personal attributes of heart in his influence over the boys and girls under his management.

We cannot well measure such influence. Every test will be somewhat faulty. But if there were any way to know the number of

young men and women to whom he has spoken the right word, and to whom he has extended a helping hand the verdict would be "herein is your father glorified, that ye bear much fruit."

There are few men who take a greater pride and more genuine pleasure in seeing the success of young men and women than does he.

There are few men who stand by their own, when to do so subjects them to the charge of disloyalty and inconsistency, as does Prof. Lehr. Whenever an honest and clean young man or woman seeks a position questions of poitics, religion, preferment, have little weight:

If a "thought expressed at the right time is sufficient to turn the current of a life," Dr. Lehr's meditations ought surely be sweetened by the unutterable thanks of the boys and girls he has helped into useful activity. He is still full of vigor, and his thousands of friends join in wishing him many more years of usefulness.

S. D. FESS.

NEW PRESIDENT OF OHIO UNIVERSITY.

By a unanimous vote the Board of Trustees of Ohio University have elected Dr. Alston Ellis president of that institution for a term of three years at an annual salary of $3,500. The choice is a wise one and will surely result in a rapid growth in the number of students

rapidly in all its departments. He possesses rare ability as an executive and never falters in the performance of what he believes to be his duty. He is also an able and forcible public speaker and will present the interests of the University to the people in his public addresses and lectures before institutes in such a manner as will insure their deepest interest and heartiest cooperation. We predict for him a most successful administration and congratulate Ohio University upon his election to the presidency.

STATE EXAMINATION.

At the State Examination held in Columbus, June 25-27, 1901, certificates were granted as follows:

COMMON SCHOOL.

Edward Albert, Bond Hill. Lewis A. Bennert, Westerville. Walter S. Bliss, Crawford. William R. Butcher, St. Clairsville.

R. P. Clark, Andover.

George W. Clemens, Woodlawn.
Chas. W. Cookson, Somerset.
Philip M. Cox, Mt. Cory.
George C. Dietrick, Groveport.
Amos L. Eyler, Norwood.
Leander L. Faris, Highland.
Clair W. Frety, Shreve.
William A. Forsythe, Harrisville.
Perry O. Getter, Miamisburg.
Hiram E. Hall, Ada.

Alva D. Hannum, Long Bottom.
William A. Hiscox, Grafton.
Allen I. Krieg, Shreve.

Alfred I. McVey, Martinsville.
B. O. Martin, La Grange.
R. W. Solomon, Kansas.
Sanford L. Stoner, Pulaski.
Clarence B. Stoner, Ashley.
Edward V. Stephan, Sardinia.
George E. Stephenson, St. Paris.
John B. Vining, Ashley.
James P. West, Middleport
Mary L. Cumback, Springfield.
Minnie Dugan, Lockland.
Elizabeth Lynch, Greenville.

HIGH SCHOOL.

Mott H. Arnold, Malta.
T. C. Coates, Lancaster.
F. P. Geiger, Canal Dover.
H. H. Hoffman, New Holland.
Jesse McCord, Washington C. H.
H. C. Minnich, Hillsboro.
H. W. Mumma, Englewood.
C. A. Pucket, Lynchburg.
S. B. Ryan, Groesbeck.

A. E. Schmidt, Winesburg. Mrs. Kate W. Jameson, Perrysburg.

Miss Lillian M. Kurtz, Painesville.

Miss Eva A. Pulse, Dodsonville. Miss Gertrude A. Straman, Ottawa.

Miss Jennie Tribbey, Morrow.

DR. SAMUEL J. KIRKWOOD. Dr. Samuel J. Kirkwood was born at Woodsfield, Ohio, January 29, 1840, and died at the home of his daughter in Albert Lea, Minn., June 24, 1901.

For forty years he has had a prominent place among the educa

tional leaders of Ohio. He received his early education in the rural schools and graduated from the Indiana State University. With eminent success he served as superintendent of schools in Cambridge, Bucyrus, and Tiffin. In 1870, at the opening of the University of Wooster he took the chair of mathematics and and Astronomy. For thirty-one years he was a member of the university faculty. Since 1890 he served as vice president, an office which, until two years ago, included the onerous and important duties of college dean. He is the last of the original Wooster faculty.

He stood for more than an ideal college professor. He was a constant and interested student of the science, art, and history of education. He was progressive and thoroughly understood the function of the school and college in our civilization. The early years of his professional career were spent in directing public schools. He was the avowed friend and champion of the public school and its work. The high school graduate presenting himself at the university naturally looked to Dr. Kirkwood for advice and sympathy. His long, unselfish service as county and city school examiner and institute instructor kept him in very close touch not only with all educational problems but educational people. He loved to associate with public school teachers; he was a regular attendant at educational meetings; he was ever

ready to suggest to worthy, bright young people the importance of higher education; he was a discriminating judge of men and al

ways ready to help a worthy person. to a responsible situation.

Of his services in the University one of his colleagues speaks as follows:

"He was ever recognized as a most efficient teacher, and many a student owes his taste for study and, consequently, his whole education to the zeal inspired by this enthusiastic and earnest teacher. He was always recognized as a friend. of the students and even their advocate, so far as his conscience would allow. He was their friend in financial difficulty, their friend in spiritual difficulty, their friend first and always; and it is doubtful if in the history of the institution there has been another who has been the trusted confidant of so many of his pupils in matters which scarcely another was allowed to know.

Dr. Kirkwood was always recognized by his colleagues as a most valuable counselor in committee and Faculty. His keen mind often saw through difficulties which befogged the intellectual atmosphere of all others, and his clear reasoning many times led to correct conclusions and right methods of procedure when the danger of error seemed imminent. Whatever the circumstances he was always just, and whatever the provocation he was never vindictive."

In his funeral discourse Dr. E. W. Work, a Wooster Alumnus, voiced the sentiment of all present in saying:

dent.

The gift of the teacher, with a corresponding skill was most eviBut back of all was the ideal of the teacher, and with the ideal was the Doctor's own example. We cannot be mistaken when we say that the teacher himself was greater

and truer than his art.

We were moved to revere the truth, the genuineness, the accuracy, the fairness that were found in the life of our beloved teacher and that was a greater blessing even than the knowledge that came from the science he taught.

What gratitude we owe to God for our true teachers, for those who have not only influenced the mind, but have also taught and moulded the soul, who have wrought under the uplift of their own pure and unselfish ideals to produce those permanent results which are reckoned as elements of character.

As God in His goodness has set the solitary in families that the life of the soul may be safeguarded, early and late, by the protections of the home, so also He has ordained that teachers should meet us on the way, to inform and inspire us, to broaden the horizon for us, to open many new vistas and to reveal many fresh visions."

Dr. Kirkwood was a man of a very wide range of knowledge and

many sided interests. He served as elder in the Presbyterian Church and was a charter member of the Century Club of Wooster. Though naturally a modest man he mingled freely with the people and studied them. From a sense of duty he took an active interest in public affairs and his advice was frequently sought by those who had in charge the management of municipal affairs. As city engineer he had in charge much of the plan for the paving and sewerage of his city. In all things he showed himself a practical man of affairs. This gift gave him a high place in the confidence of all those who knew him.

In his friendships he was always firm and true. He never neglected an opportunity to aid a worthy friend. Many a university senior has turned to the genial doctor to advise with him about his plans for the future. He was specially helpful to those who were worthy candidates for the teaching profession. May all the friends of education in our state cherish his noble Christian character, his refined culture and his inestimable services to his fellowmen. CHARLES HAUPERT.

EDUCATIONAL NEWS.

Supt. J. C. Seemann, of Vermilion, has been re-elected for another year at a salary of $900.

Supt. G. O. Thompson, of Patterson has been re-elected at an

increase in his salary of $15.00 a

month.