| 63Greensburg, Pa., Oct., 3, 1891.
Prof. Charles E. Bessey:
Dear Friend,
I write you thus soon again, on account of a sudden change in my surroundings. I think that I mentioned to you before leaving the West, that I had in view a candidacy for a college Presidency in one of our Eastern schools. When I arrived here, I found things apparently favorable, there being a vacancy in the Presidency, with an Acting President who declined the Presidency, and no canidate in the field. I had expected however, to wait, before presenting my name to the Board, until I had cultivated a personal acquaintance with some of the members of the Board, that I might not be as it were an absolutely unknown juantity to them. The sudden death of the Acting President, just as the college season opened, has completely upset my plans, and I have been forced to present my name to them at once. That you may be the better able to judge of my fitness for the position to which I aspire, I will take a moment to inform you of the present status of the College I have in view. It had run down so a few years ago that it was on the point of collapsing, but was taken in hand by a young manand was distinctly on the up grade, when he died. He had selected an almost entirely new faculty of | 63Greensburg, Pa., Oct., 3, 1891.
Prof. Charles E. Bessey:
Dear Friend,
I write you thus soon again, on account of a sudden change in my surroundings. I think that I mentioned to you before leaving the West, that I had in view a candidacy for a college Presidency in one of our Eastern schools. When I arrived here, I found things apparently favorable, there being a vacancy in the Presidency, with an Acting President who declined the Presidency, and no canidate in the field. I had expected however, to wait, before presenting my name to the Board, until I had cultivated a personal acquaintance with some of the members of the Board, that I might not be as it were an absolutely unknown juantity to them. The sudden death of the Acting President, just as the college season opened, has completely upset my plans, and I have been forced to present my name to them at once. That you may be the better able to judge of my fitness for the position to which I aspire, I will take a moment to inform you of the present status of the College I have in view. It had run down so a few years ago that it was on the point of collapsing, but was taken in hand by a young manand was distinctly on the up grade, when he died. He had selected an almost entirely new faculty of |
