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so constantly at being president I have not had time to read many
books that I have always intended to read.  There are many
places I have always wanted to see but my duties have postponed
my visiting them.  There are two books I have been intending
for years to write but there has been no time to do it.  While
there is yet time and some energy, I want to read those neglect-
ed books and visit those places I have not seen. I wish for time
to gratify my desire to achieve these things, prepare those
unwritten manuscripts which I have covenanted with myself to
write.  One more thing I would like to do - give more time to
community work than my rigid routine has permitted me to do in
the past.  These are matters no good citizen can afford to neglect.

      There are two reasons why I am requesting the Board of
Trustees to give me a year earlier a change -of -work status under
the policy adopted by the Board in 1928. A committee of the
Faculty some years ago requested that when I planned to relinquish
my duties as president of the University, I would give the Board
and the Faculty notice of my retirement from the presidency some
months in advance.  At that time I informed them I would honor
their request which I am now doing.  The other reason is quite
as valid.  Time is required to make a careful and diligent search
for a new president.  A board should have sufficient time to se-
lect a new president and thereby avoid the necessity of selecting
an Acting President. If a long interval exists between the two
administrations it frequently becomes a period of unrest for the
faculty and the institution drifts without a program.

      I have no desire to take part in the selection of my successor
and I shall deliberately refrain from active participation in this
matter.  However, twenty-eight years of experience as a college
president, plus a knowledge of the literature on college adminis-
tration, plus a familiarity with the best practices employed by
boards of trustees in seeking a new president lead me to the con-
viction that as a matter of duty to the University to which I have
given so much of my life, I am justified in saying something about
the procedure a board should follow in selecting a new president.

     First, the best authorities on higher education regard the
selection of a new executive officer of a university as the most
important and far reaching act a board ever has to perform.
Second, that the appointment of a Trustee-Faculty Screening Com-
mittee is employed in the better ordered colleges and universities
in selecting a new president. When this method is used the morale
of the faculty is maintained at a high level and the new president
comes into office Eknjoying the support and loyalty of the faculty,
conscious of a part in his selection.  The board can get no better
advice than from loyal and devoted members of the faculty whose
only interest is the welfare of the institution,  Third, it is desir-
able for the Board.-Faculty Screening Committee to evaluate
carefully the personnel of the university with reference to the dis-
covery of potential presidents on its faculty. In my judgment
there are at least a half dozen first rate men on the staff of the
University any one of whom would make a good president. However,