President Thomason?

Under Dean Alfred H. Lloyd of her Graduate School as acting president, Michigan University closed her doors without having named a successor to the late Dr. Marion LeRoy Burton, her dead President (TIME, Mar. 2). Never were the educational woods so full of likely timber, yet there was only one rumor of a marked man. That came from James O. Murfin, a regent of the University, and was perhaps more than a rumor. At a Michigan convention, held, last week, at Detroit, Mr. Murfin invited those present to embody in the form of a resolution their sentiments towards Samuel Emory Thomason, '04, Chicago lawyer, Vice President of the Chicago Tribune, President of the American newspaper Publishers' Association. Mr. Murfin promised that such a resolution would be "acted on" by the regents' presidential committee.