Education: U. of Illinois

Last week, tall, thin-thatched, efficient, good-natured President Harry Woodburn Chase of the University of North Carolina sat in his office at Chapel Hill and pondered. He was not thinking about the university of which he has been the chief executive for ten years, but of a vast educational plant 650 miles away of which he had just accepted the presidency—the University of Illinois.

The responsibilities which he must take up next autumn have been borne for the past decade by 65-year-old David Kinley, a member...

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