PRINCE LUCIAN CAMPBELL Submitted by
PRINCE LUCIAN CAMPBELL
Submitted by: Lynn Smith
Prince Lucian CAMPBELL, president of the University of Oregon
since
1902, was born in Newmarket, Missouri, October 6, 1861, his
parents
being Thomas Franklin and Jane Eliza CAMPBELL. The
father, too, was a
well known educator who was president of the Christian College
at
Monmouth, Oregon, from 1869 until 1882.
Dr. CAMPBELL of this review won his Bachelor of Arts degree
upon
graduation from Christian College in 1879. He
afterward became a
Harvard student and the university at Cambridge conferred upon
him the
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1886. From Pacific
University he received
the LL.D. degree, as he did also from the University of
Colorado. He
entered the teaching profession in 1879 in connection with
Christian
College, where he remained for three years or until 1882. In
1890 he
was called to the presidency of the Oregon State Normal School
and
there remained for twelve years or until 1902, when he was
elected to
the presidency of the University of Oregon and has continued at
the
head of the institution, covering a period of nineteen years. It
would be tautological in this connection to enter into any
series of
statements showing him to be a man of broad scholarly
attainment and
one of the eminent educators of the northwest, for this has
been
shadowed forth between the lines of this review. Those
who know aught
of his professional career recognize the high standards that he
has
always maintained and the advanced ideals which he has ever
followed.
Aside from his professional activities Dr. CAMPBELL was
president of
the Polk County Bank from 1892 until 1905, since which time he
has
concentrated his attention upon the profession which he chose
as a
life work. He is a representative of the National
Association of
State Universities on the American Council of Education. His
religious faith is that of the Christian church.
History of Oregon, Biographical, Vol. II, The Pioneer
Historical
Publishing Company, 1922,
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