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- ri - ’ “T0 the Board 0 T}'l(5ft’t’.\` C111·z·ers1/v 0‘ Kczztzzckvz é` ·duc;
V   3 i`   “The undersigned committee was appointed under a resolution of this Board 2  timc
E3§}’· 2   adopted in ]une of this year to recommend to the Board of Trustees a man suit.  . Ass¤<
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  · , able for President ot the Lniversity. This board directed thc committee to make  y UHUO
  it recommendations, if possible, prior to September 15, 1917.  ; Of Cl
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  "The committee organized immediately after its appointment, and has been . xaggc
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  steadily at work ever since. It has consulted some of the leadmg educators ot  , D ‘
  j the country, the two great educational foundations, has conferred with m;nn·  ‘ COM
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  ‘ rr "After consultations mer sonal interviews and u on the recommendation or  . lng
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  ’ the leading educators of the country, your committee desires to recommend to  t was]
  you for President of the University Dr. Frank L, Mc\'ey, 1lO\\' President oi the `· {fc _
  - University of North Dakota. ,  Ec f
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;,_  "Dr_ Me\/ ey was born in \\’1liTl1llgtOl`l, Ohio, November IOIII, 1869. He rs ft  _ Wiki
ifi ‘ son of A. H. McVev, who during his lifetime was ]udge of the District Court ‘ `
~ ’ . *1 in Iowa, and Alla Holmes Mc\r ey.  _ _
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_ , "Dr. MeVey attended the public schools of Toledo, Olno, and Des Kfoines, _;  qcie,
I Q   Iowa, and was graduated at the Ohio VVesleyan University in the class of Ixfllj,   gom
  i l with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He attended the graduate school in Yale - Sm
    University, specializing in Economics, and received the degree of Doctor of  
  1*: Philoso h V at Yale in 18 ‘. In 189 he further ursued his studies in Englautl.  I _
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.   E In 1910 he received the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Ohio V\’eslcy;m  ` Of E
_ Ziff ' University.  - QOH
l `F     "Dr. McVey married Mabel Moore Sawyer, a graduate of tl1e University of Edu
i· °   Minnesota, in 1898, and has three children.   gmt
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» "Dr. McVey’s educational experience has been various and constantly up- · has
  ,9 . ward. He was principal of a high school in Iowa in 1891-92; instructor in his- V imp
I `2i= ` tory in the Teachers’ College, Columbia University, 1895-96; he went from {  i