University of North Dakota - Dacotah Yearbook (Grand Forks, ND)

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audiences. Upon the request of Governor Burke he spoke on ttTax Commis- sions' before the joint session of the legislature last winter. The legislators were profuse in expressing their appreciation of his masterly presentation of this subject. He has also already performed excellent work for our University in his appearance before the joint committee on appropriations, last February, while the needs of the University were being discussed. He is eminently fitted, by training, to serve as president of the University. His education has been thorough and broad. The son of a scholarly Ohio judge, Dr. McVey has had the advantages of a careful home training. After finishing his elementary education in the public schools of Toledo and Des Moines, he attended Ohio Wesleyan, where he took his bachelor's degree. He secured his doctors degree at Yale University in 1895, upon completing two years of special work in the field of economics. While in college, he was in- terested in every college activity; in literary society, in athletics, in college newspaper work, in all student interests he was always considered, because he possessed convictions and had the courage to defend them. Since leaving college, Drt MeVey has had most valuable experience as an educator. As principal of the high school of Orient, Iowa; as instructor in history in Teachers College, Columbia University; as instructor. assistant pro- fessor and professor in the University of Minnesota, he has had opportunity to study education in its many phases. As a member of the staff of the University of Minnesota he has served on many important committees. including debate and oratory, curriculum, athletics. students' work, rules and regulations, and University catalogue. He is well known as a man of public affairs. In 1900 he served as special agent of the U. S. census. He was president of the Minneapolis Associated ' Charities from 1898 to 1909. In 1904 he was director of the Twin City exhibit at the W'orldys Fair, and also was appointed a member of the International Jury of Awards. He is a member of the Minnesota Auti-Tuberculosis Asso- ciation. of the executive committee of the State and also of the National Con- ference of Charities and Corrections He was the founder of the Minnesota Academy of Social Sciences, Dr. MCVey also holds the responsible position of chairman of the Minnesota Tax Commission. It is as head of this commis- sion that he is especially well known in Minnesota and in the surrounding states. His speech before the legislature at Bismarck upon lTax Commissions'l convinced that body that it was a worthy institution and the next session may see the establishment of such a commission in North Dakota. Dr. MCVey is also well known as a writer. He has already written such standard works as mllhe Populist Movement,U 1896; nThe History and Gov- ernment of Minnesota? 1901, and liModern Industrialism? In 1895 he was editorial writer for HSound Currency?! in 1898 he was editor of the proceed- ings of the Minnesota Academy of Social Sciences, and in 1907 was associate editor of the American Economic Association Bulletin. Dr. McVey has enjoyed exceptional opportunities for equipping himself for the work he is soon to assume. dPossessing experience, health, vigor. reputa- tion. and the honor and esteem of his fellows. the new president of the Uni- versity of North Dakota is a man worthv of the position. The ,10 Dacotah takes pleasure in extending to Dr. McVey its best wishes for his continued success.

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agresihentcelett frank 91. M69213 HE University of North Dakota is now entering upon the second quarter century of its existence. A new period has begun and it is during this time that the iliagniheent superstructure is to be built upon the substantial and enduring foundations laid by President Merrifield and his associ- ates. To Dr. Frank L. McVey falls the lot of directing the further building of the greater University of North Dakota. D11 McVey comes to North Dakota with a reputation for ttdoing things. An eminent scholar. he is yet the most practical of men; an educator. he is an executive able to command the cordial support of men of affairs. Although a young man of only forty years, he has a record of which any man might well be proud. Dr. MeVey was introduced to the people of North Dakota through a series of lectures delivered in Fargo last year which won for him the good will of his

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M. A. BRANNON. M. A., G. S.TH0MA5, M. A., PH. D. EARLE J. BABCOCK, B. S. Dean of the College of Medicine Dean of the College of Liberal Ans Dcan College of Mining Engineering JOSEPH KENNEDY, M. A., CALVIN H. CROUCH, M. E. Dean of Teachers' College Dean College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering ANDREW A. BRUCE. B. A., LL. B. Dean of the College of Law a-k - . . .. . ...- m -M w-...-.g..cr.h; mm, F. ,