Author: Smith College

Publisher:

Published: 2015-07-11

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 9781331180449

Excerpt from The Inauguration of Marion Leroy Burton as President of Smith College, the Fifth of October, MCMX At a special meeting of the Trustees of Smith College held in New York, April 10, 1909, Marion LeRoy Burton, Ph. D., D. D., Pastor of the Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, previously Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale University, was elected President of Smith College, the term of service to begin September 1, 1910. President Seelye continued to hold office till August 31, 1910, when his resignation took effect and he became President Emeritus, after thirty-five years of active service. September 1, President Burton who, according to the plan of the trustees had spent the preceding year in travel and investigation of other institutions, entered upon the duties of his office. A committee appointed by the trustees from their own number and by President Seelye from the faculty, had charge of the arrangements for the induction of the new president. This committee fixed Wednesday, October 5, 1910, as the date for the inauguration and made the general plans for the exercises of the day, leaving to the faculty committee, under Dean Tyler as chairman, the working out of details and the adding of such sub-committees as should prove necessary. In accordance with the feeling that the exercises should be simple, but marked by a dignity and interest appropriate to the history and character of the college, the program was planned and a representative list of higher educational institutions was made up. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.