PROFESSOR AYDELOTTE AND SWARTHMORE COLLEGE.
ITO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.")
SIR,—In your issue of the Spectator of March 5th, which has just reached this country, on p. 301 you have an article entitled " The American Rhodes Scholars," in which you mention Professor Frank Aydelotte. It gives me pleasure to notify you that on March 8th last Professor Aydelotte was elected Presi- dent of Swarthmore College. This is one of the smaller educational colleges limited to an enrolment of 500, 250 of each sex. The college was established in the sixties, and has been one of the successful eastern co-educational colleges, and ranks in standard with Williams, Amherst, and the other leading smaller colleges. Professor Aydelotte is the fifth Rhodes scholar to be elected a college President, and is one of the youngest American college Presidents. From the intimate way in which you wrote of Professor Aydelotte it seemed to me you must have some personal knowledge of him, which would make this letter of interest to you and your readers. As a reader of the Spectator, I always look with interest for articles relating to Rhodes Scholarships, which are having such a wide influence sn our educational development in this country.—I am, Sir,
(President of the Corporation, Swarthmore College, Penn.).
[We congratulate Swarthmore College on its new President. The governing body of that distinguished institution has chosen wisely and well. Professor Aydelotte, in that most remarkable book, The Oxford Stamp, showed that he under- stands the things that are of true account in education. No son of Oxford has ever learned his mother's great, yet simple, secret more perfectly. He and the Rhodes scholars are, - we believe, going to not a candle in America which, with God's grace, will never be put out. What we want next is an American Rhodes to light in England an American candle of equal illumination.—En. Spectator.]
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