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The New Superintendent

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Day
22
Month
April
Year
1898
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Public Domain
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The peopJe of Ann Arbor are to be cougiatulated on the selection made by the board of edncation Monday evening for superintendent of onr city schools. Mr. Slansnn is now superintendent of schools at Moline, Illinois. He is, however, no stianger to many uf the people of Ann Arbor. He is iu the very prime of pbysical and intellectual manbood and as manly a mau as one needs to meet. He bas bad wide and varied experience in poblio school work. He was prepared for college in Iowa, gradaated from the Michigan University, served severa] years as superintendent of schools at Hongbton and later at Coldwater and is now completing his 8eventh year at Moline. He as been uniformly successful and is recognized as a soholar, and an able teacher as well as a stiong exeoutive. From the forpgoing it will be áeen that from experience he is familiar witb the pnblic school systems of several States and in ulose touch witb tbe best edncational tbought of tbe Middle West. He has always been an aotive worker in tbe varióos edncational associatious and bas tbns partaken of tbe leaven of edncational advancement of tbe times. He ie also a snccessful instituto worker. He is tactful and energetic and will nnqnestionably administer the professional part of tbe school system of the oity ably and soocessfnlly. The Criterion, of New York, which certainly bas not been unfriendly to the national administratiou, bas the following criticism to make of the presidentes attitude on the Cuban question : President McKinley has shown in bis belated message on Cnban affairs that fae dare not face bis own oonolasions. Thn country at large agrees with the president's conclusious, and is lost in ■wonder over his want of moral courage. The message, whicb was delayed a week in transmission to congiess, proves to be a wordy document without foroe or novelty, and leads one to marvel wby it was kept back. It reoites wbat Mr. McKinley, General Grant and Mr. Cleveland have said on the question of Cuba; it réstales wbat Mr. MoKinley bas already written abont recent Coban history. It ends by asking oongress to hand over the ■rjuestion once more to Mr. MoKinley. The message itself was the best proof tbat it would be a blunder to do so. The president should be given no inore latitude in deaiing with the subject. With every wish to treat the executive respectfnlly, we must say that he has pettifogged iu tbe great matters that oonceru tbe foundation of nations aud bas triruiaed iu smaller matters as if for the sake of trimmiug. The truth is that tbe president's miud is of the most unfortunate type possible for the laoing of great eveuts. Extreme conscieutionsness and extreme indecisión are bad enough when mated as they are in the presideut's mind, bat tbe president has nnfortunately had a personal vánity to overeóme before he oould approach any qnestion tbat might lead to war. It was perhaps a pardouable vanifcy. He was elected in the sornewbat strurtiDR attitude of tbe "advanoe agent of prosperity," and through all the letter-writing to Spain Mr. JUoKiuley has kept a respeotful eye on tbat oampaign figure, so smng, so trim, and with a rustic brass baud playing near it. Every line he wrote seemed to make the "advanoe agent" dimmer and dimmer.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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