Asked To Leave U. Of M.

Professors Rolfe And Dow Made Flattering Offers

From the Univercities of Pennsylvania and Missouri-Professor Rolfe will Accept Offer Made Him

It would seem that the universities of the country have a grudge against Michigan, or else they are envious of the very efficient corps of professors or which the University boasts, judging from the many flattering offers recently received by its professors.

Among the latest coveted acquisitions to other institutions is Prof. John C. Rolfe, who is professor of Latin here.

Prof. Rolfe has been asked to accept the professorship of practical philology in the graduate school of the University of Pennsylvania. The offer comes accompanied by a handsome increase of salary, in the consequence of which the University of Michigan loses one of its most valuable men.

In an interview Wednesday Prof. Rolfe said: "I have accepted the offer from Pennsylvania. The increase in salary is very large. I shall leave Ann Arbor immediately after the closing of the summer school."

Prof. Rolfe was born in Lawrence, Mass. When very young his parents removed to Cambridge, where he passed most of his boyhood days. Before entering college he was a student at the Latin school of Harvard. In 1881 he received the degree of Ph. B. from Harvard and in 1885 he received the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Immediately after receiving the latter degree he received a position as instructor of Latin at Cornell University. Later he was instructor in Latin and Greek at Harvard. During 1896 and 1897 he studied at the University of Munich and in 1889 continued his studies in Latin at the school of Athens. In 1890 he came to Michigan and was appointed assistant to Prof. Kelsey. In 1894 he was made Professor of Latin.

Prof. Rolfe is a deep and earnest student and is in every respect a most capable man. The loss to Michigan will be a decided gain to Pennsylvania.

An offer has also been made to Earle Dow, assistant professor of history. Prof. Dow has been asked to accept the chair of history in the University of Missouri. He said this morning, however, that he had declined the offer. Although he has been offered a flattering salary, he does not care to go so far west. He could not carry on his individual studies, he says, so successfully there as here, the library of Missouri University having been destroyed by fire in 1892. As yet it has not been fully replaced.