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Former Chancellor, Charles N. Sims Thi' l0ll0WiHg llddrcss, published by request, was one of the addresses given in the First Methodist Episcopal khurch ol Syracuse tllr. Sims' last pastoratej during the hour when the funeral obsequies were being held at Lihertv. Indiana. BY DEAN FRANK SMALLEY 'li is a service of love to speak of Chancellor Sims in any capacity, but it is especially so for one of his associates in the University to speak of him in relation to his administra- tion. Doctor Sims came to Syracuse in the fall of 1881 as the successor of Chancellor E. O. Haven who, after six years' incumbency of the office, was elected bishop in 1880 and left after the Commencement of that year. There followed an interregnum of one year during which Dean French took executive responsibility. Doctor Sims was our third Chancellor, and his tenure ofthe ofiice was almost twice those of his predecessors combined. For more than twelve years he was head of the University. At the Commencement of 1893 he felt that the time had come for him to lay down his work and tried to beurelieved, but the trustees did not share his: convictions and insisted on his remaining. He wavered for a time, but at last determined to sever his relations with the University, which he did in October of that year. He served, how- ever, as trustee from the year IQOO until his death. Chancellor Sims was in his physical and intellectual prime when he came to the University., He had just passed his forty-sixth birthday, and came fresh from very successful pastorates in some ofthe most important churches in the denomination. He was in demand, and any person who knew him in those .days would never be at a loss to understand why. He came to us not an entire novice in the executive work of a college. In his young man- hood he had served a sort of apprenticeship for two years as the head of a small college in ln- diana. But years of pastoral work in great churches had intervened, and when he came to Syracuse he was in a receptive state ofmind and advised most frankly with his board and facul- ty, and especially with that wise and dignified man who shared with him executive responsibility.. The condition of the University in 1881 was, in some respects, deplorable. This fact Was- not externally apparent. It was ten years after the doors were first opened in this city. The number of students had gradually crept up from forty-one, at the opening, to three hundred twenty-two, including quite a number that were non-resident. The era of rapid development had not yet arrived and was not to come for some years. XVhile the growth thus seemed healthy, if not vigorous, there was an internal weakness of which Chancellor Sims was keenly aware and the apprehension of which clearly determined for him the problem of his administration. That weakness was financial, and so serious was it that Chancellor Haven said quietly to his successor that the institution was doomed and any effort he might make to save it would be unavailing. That was not a very inspiring prospect for the new Chancellor. And these words came from a man of wide experience, of long service in University management in three different institutions. It would seem to he an appalling I
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