Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1906 — DR. HARPER 18 DEAD [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

DR. HARPER 18 DEAD

Head of the Chicago University Suddenly Succumbs, Although Hla Death Wan Kxpected. Chicago, Jan. 11. Dr. William It. Harper, president of the University of Chicago, died at 2:30 p. m. yesterday. Yesterday morning I)r. Frank Billings

had issued a bulletin stating that Dr. Harper could not live the week out, but yet his death was sudden, as the physicians believed he had a few days more of life ahead. Dr. Harper's death cast a gloom over the whole community. His disease was cancer of the head of the colon, which was ascertained Feb. 22 last by an operation. He was only 49 years old, and his career is largely the career of Chicago university, which he built up. During his illness he completed work on three books he had begun “The Trend of Higher Education,” “The Priestly Element in the Old Testament” and “The Structure of the Text Book of Hosea.” Dr. Harper will be interred in Oakwood cemetery. From all parts of the country come messages expressing the sorrow of educators at the news of Dr. Harper's death. Among those expressing themselves are Presidents Wilson, of Princeton; Sohurman, of Cornell; Hadley, of Yale; Eliot, of Harvard, and Angell, of Michigan.

WILLIAM R. HARPER.