University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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PRESIDENT JAMES A. MACLEAN

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JosErH Puitiip BLANTON, A. M., LL. D., isa native of Vir- ginia and graduated at Hampden-Sydney College. After, leaving College he devoted his time entirely to educational interests. For several years he was the Principal of the Troy, Mo., Collegiate Insti- tute. His executive ability was displayed to a large degree during the ten years he was president of the Kirksville, Mo., Normal School. This position he voluntarily resigned to assume the position of Dean of the Normal Department of the University of Missouri, which position he very successfully filled until he resolved to come further west and ac- cepted the position of President of the U. of I.. which he held for two years. Dr. Blanton is a gentleman of high character, excellent scholarship and broad general culture. His wide reading, and broad sympathy, his natural gift of oratory make him a speaker of unusual power and force. 17

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PRESIDENT JAMES A. MACLEAN, born on August 2, 1868, in Ontario, is a graduate of the University of Toronto, and a post gradu- ate of the Columbia University, from which institution he received the degrees of M. A. and Ph. D. in 1893-4. From 1894-00 he filled the Chair of Political Science in the University of Colorado, and was Dean of the Graduate School. In 1894 President McLean wrote essays in the financial history of Canada. He accepted the call to the Presidency of the University of Idaho in 1900, and has filled that position together with the Chair of Political Science up to the present time. With his keen appreciation of the responsibility, with his close study of the issues of the day, and his abiding sense of fidelity in ac- complishing the tasks his office imposes, President McLean has had much to do in making the University what it is. His interest in the student body and his cordial manner have won tor him many friends throughout the state. 19