Editor Rowland

To be the editor of a great magazine is to possess a national, perhaps a worldwide, consequence. To be the president of a university is to take rank in a tradition that knows no limitation of time or country, to shed off personal sharpnesses in the dignity of scholarship. Some months ago Glenn Frank weighed these truths. Should he continue as editor of the Century? Or resign to become President of Wisconsin University? He chose, as many people are aware (TIME, May 25, EDUCATION) the latter course.

Last week his successor was named--a man who has attained his position "without college training of any kind." The new editor, Hewitt H. Howland, has been for many years literary adviser to the Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis publishers. He is a friend of Robert Underwood Johnson, onetime Century editor, who long ago sought his services. "Leave him alone," begged officials of the Bobbs-Merrill Co. In the sanctity of their private offices, these officials would confess to intimates that Howland "had genius for literary values". Like Booth Tarkington, Theodore Dreiser, Lew Wallace, Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, George Barr McCutcheon and James Whitcomb Riley, he comes from Indiana. His wife is the sister of that loose-lipped and not infrequently objectionable funnyman journalist, Irvin S. Cobb. He will go to the Century in October.