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...Barnard has resigned his position as president of Columbia College...
...trustees of the college most reluctantly accepted the resignation. Dr. Barnard has occupied the position for nearly a quarter of a century, and under his administration the college has prospered wonderfully. Before he became president of Columbia he had held several important positions. In 1837 he was professor of mathematics and natural history at the University of Alabama, and in 1848 became professor of chemistry there. In 1854 he took orders in the Protestant Episcopal church, the same year becoming professor of mathematics and astronomy in the University of Mississippi. In 1856 he was elected president of the university...
...resignation of President Barnard, Columbia College loses one of the ablest men it has ever had at the head of its governing body. Dr. Barnard has done much to bring the college to its present prosperous condition, having labored hard and faithfully for nearly a quarter of a century in the interests of the institution, whose chief he was. It will be no easy matter for the Board of Trustees to select a worthy successor to the responsible position which Dr. Barnard has been compelled, by ill-health, to vacate. As for the retiring president, he can desire no better...
...extremely probable that President Barnard of Columbia College will soon be compelled to resign office owing to continued ill health. President Barnard is now seventy-nine years old and has held his present position for over twenty years. Since the beginning of this college year he has only been able to attend two faculty meetings, and has passed the winter months in Florida in the expectation of recuperating enough to be enabled to attend his college duties during the spring term. The only reason that can be given for President Barnard's clinging so tenaciously to leadership of Columbia...