B. U. President

Since tendering an honorable release and a $5,000 honorarium to Dr. Lemuel H. Murlin that he might assume the presidency of his alma mater, DePauw University, after a 13-year administration in Boston (TIME, Dec. 22, 1924), the trustees of Boston University have been casting about to refill the presidential chair over which they have dominion. Bishop William F. Anderson, prelate of the Boston area of the Methodist-Episcopal Church, has filled the chair pro tempore.

Last week the trustees called another Methodist and he heard them and said he would go unto them. He was Dr. Daniel Lash Marsh of Pittsburgh, aged 45, alumnus of Northwestern University, Garrett Biblical Institute, Chicago University and Boston University. Ordained in 1903, Dr. Marsh served seven years in small Pennsylvania towns until called to Sewickley, socially prominent suburb of Pittsburgh. There he paid the church debt, multiplied the congregation.

Within three years he was put at the head of Pittsburgh's M. E. union, comprising 103 churches. He served with the Y. M. C. A. in France. He was made a member of his church's highest lawmaking body, the General Conference. He edited the Pittsburgh Methodist and wrote The Challenge of Pittsburgh, Tiny Tales of Modern Miracles, Regular Fellows, The Faith of the People's Poet (the late James Whitcomb Riley, personal friend of Dr. Marsh). He preached to "capacity houses," with hundreds being turned from his church door. Now, beginning next month, he will administer the affairs, social, pedagogical and financial, of a city university with 12,000 students--a big job, but his bishop (Bishop Francis J. McConnell) said when he heard the news: "He is far and away the best executive in my area . . . Dr. Marsh will succeed."