University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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Q1 RECENT5 YP A ' 91 EM xwll J HON ALDEN BLETHEN, President .... ..., S eaflfe, 1908 HON GED. H. KING .................. .... S mlfle, IQO3 I-ION JAMES Z. MQQRE. ..., 5f19f111111, 1904 HON JAMES E. EELL ..... .E11919ff, 1904 HQN. RICHARD NWINSOR ..... ..5911ffz1, 1995 HON JOHN I-1. POXYELL ........ ..5FHfff6, 1905 HQN XVILLIAM E. SCHRICKER ............. La C0 7l7z elf, 1908 XWILLIAM MARKHAM, Secretary of the Board.

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1904 TYEE 21 OUR PRESIDENT fs ff 9 1. I gh. ,-HBE: 0 'Y mu 5' P fi' , QU .nigh 'N' ' ' gif , If ,' iff- if ' .I Ek, f 1 my 'v is ,' .' yi ' , ATN l: '1- 1 .' X fix gi. if-f 11 . Ly: H-1' Lrl i ,it Q qi , I' - fi i , L I .R K. 1.1 ' v g ikx vi :N - :V 3 fi ii.-i. -'gs ,.,..,.,,., .fa ,J E 1 I L the University had N the two years that preceded his election as president of the University of VVashington, Dr. Thomas Franklin Kane, professor of Latin, won the confidence and respect of the Uni- versity to such ai degree that when a change was made in its executive, as if by universal consent all eyes turned to him to guide the aHairs of this great and rapidly growing insti- tution through probably one of the most crit- ical periods in her history. if In the brief months that have passed since he first assumed the complex and difficult duties of that great office he has yet more en- deared himself to the hearts of the student body and won the esteem of the educational world of the Northwest. jlThe situation which confronted Dr. Kane was one of extreme difficulty. In four years grown from a small pioneer college to a uni- versity in fact as well as in name. From less than two hundred, her attendance has increased to over six hundred. New buildings had been added and the faculty greatly strengthened. Here was a university of scarcely a day set up to compete with institutions having two centuries of tradition behind them. New policies must be outlined, traditions must be laid, a- thousand things which the age of other institutions supplied must here be instituted. if With what firmness and courage he faced the duties of his new oflice, the lines of his countenance suggest. fl Thomas Franklin Kane was born in 1863 at Vifestield, Indiana.