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Show $.11 u_firhrranged with Prof. Ketchum to visit New York so _£;ent Ray might consult with him without loss of time swiptional travel. Prof. Ketchum is large physically and ¢N r? superior intellect. w‘fiaxgtense about him. There is not a particle of I would not regard him as adroit or as A%J""%""8hly diplomatic, but he is earnest and sincere and I believe .5 would be successful generally in dealing with others. He has a pleasing personality and commands respect at once by his mastery of his profession. He understands the West and has an appreciation of it. Upon my arrival in New York, I went at once to New Haven and conferred with a number of men at Yale University. The Bureau of Appointments there is very efficient and gave me important information bearing upon nearly every man in our list. Dr. Frank E. Spaulding was very soon eliminated on account of ill-health and other considerations. I conferred with Dean Cross, Chairman of the Appointments Committee and Dean Jones, already referred to, and from information here obtained, I was convinced that Payson Smith would probably be of no further interest to the Board, for while he was highly spoken of by these men, he was not thought suited to executive university work or the kind of person to "start out On new lines", as one of them termed it. Here, as else- where, I received no encouragement upon Charles L. Durham for our particular situation. The same with respect to William T. Foster; and while Wm. D. Russell was everywhere well spoken of, yet there were always certain reservations, and this was especially so here. Returning to New York, I was met by Regent Bay on Tuesday, May 24th, and we following out a definite program for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, first called on Samuel H. Fisher at 26 Broadway, Chairman of the Committee which ~selected the president for Yale.‘ This committee has worked acontinuously for ten months and by a system of careful From Mr. elimination, has finally selected Dr. Angel. Fisher, we obtained valuable information. We then conferred with the Rockfeller Foundation and with Henry S. Pritchett of the Carnegie Institute, from whom we received substantial confirmation of the impressions we had already formed concerning most of the men considered. The following day we visited the College of the City of of-New York for the purpose of observing the situation three Dr. Thomas Andrew Storey. Dr. Storey has been for and was in years loaned to the Government by the College Washington at that time, making it necessary that we return ally. by way of Washington in order to confer With him person ty and, with the 'We next visited Columbia Universi satisfactory very an»asaistance of Prof. Howard B. Driggs, had a e, and particularly h‘fiference with a number of the men therevem ents are 30.5 . 6Dr. David Sneddon. Sneddon's achi 's Who" that it is known and so fully set forth in "Who |
