Superintendent Perry's Successor

The death of Superintendent Perry rftises a qucstion in which the people of Ann Arbor havo the deepest interest. This is the question of the succession to the superintendency. It is the general understanding that the Board of Education will not be in a hurry to answor this question. It has been given out on authority, as we understand, that the Board will take plenty of time to reach a wise decisión. This is perfectly right. While the people of Ann Arbor will await the final action of the Board with interest, they wish the Board to proceed in such raanner and to use such time as will lead to the beet choice. The condition of the schools is no doubt such that they can go on very well to the end of the school year, with such provisional supervisión as the Board can furnish. And this may be necessary, because it might be found vory difficult, or even irapossible, to obtain, in the course of the present year, the man who might be wanted. The best men are generally in demand, and so are likely to be under contracts that bind them until the cloae of the current year. So let the Board proceed with due deliberatlon. The Register has no man in view for this place, but has the kind of man that should bo sought for diatinctly in view. He shoud be a scholar, an educator of experience, a man of high personal character. He should not be a hobbyrider or a faddist but he should be a man of progressive ideas, in full sympathy with the best things that are to be found in the educational world. He should be a man who stands for ability, character, and high ideáis amon" the educators of the State. We shaïl not at this time pursuo the subject at more length ; but there can be no harm done in reminding the Board, and the comniunity, too,-' that the election of a superintendent of the public schools of Ann Arbor is second in irnportance, within the limits of Ann Arbor, only to the election of a president of the üniversity of Michigan.