Word: businessman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be his successor is the question now agitating the college world. Opinion is by no means concentrated on any one choice. Some are in favor of a businessman, a man whose executive abilities and not his deep learning shall recommend him. Others are in favor of a man of recognized ability as an instructor, and one acquainted with all the most approved educational methods, yet not a man of so-called dangerous conservative ideas; he must not be a clergyman, nor must he be prejudiced against the value of classical training. To satisfy this class the next president must...