A New College President

Prof. Thomas C. Chamberlain, the noted geologist, who enters upon his duties as president of the Wisconsin State University this month, is a splendid specimen of a man physically. He stands six feet two in his stocking feet, aud is broad and well-proportioned. It is said that the combined height of himself and two brothers, younger, is nineien feet, and all are well-jormed men. President Chamberlain is a Western man, although he was born in IUinoi. Ha .is now forty-four years oíd. Until he went to college his time was spent on his father's farm, lus father bcing a Methodist clergyman of great oratorical power. Prof. Chamberlain graduated at Beloit College in 1864. For two years he was principal of the high school at Delavan, Wis. He then took a special course in scientific study at the Michigan University. For four j'cars he was professor of natural sciences at White Water (Wis.) Normal School, and in 1874 he was called to Beloit College as professor of geology. In 1876 Governor Ludington appointèd him State Geologist of Wisconsin. He associated with him in the State survey the brigbtest and best young geologists he could find in the State University and in Beloit College. The four volumes of the Wisconsin geological reports have become famous as among the best State reports ever made. Prof. Chamberlain has for several years been one of the leadtag geologists in the United States survey. In 1882 he ,was a delégate to the World's Geological convention in Paris, and read a notable paper on the moraine system of the North American continent. His work has made him famous the world over. He is a man of kindly and thoughtful manners, very popular with young men and an excellent executive manager. He has always succeeded where other men might have failed. He is a keen student of men and a liberal, broad-gauged, progressive scholar. Light is aboveus an'l color surroundsus; but if we have not light and color in our own eyes we shall not perceive them outside us.