Education: Loyola's 17th

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Every Jesuit college in the world periodically gets a new president, personally chosen in Rome by the "Black Pope''—the Jesuit General. Last week, for the 16th time, Loyola University in Chicago changed presidents. Rev. Robert Michael Kelley, S.J. was succeeded by Rev. Samuel Knox Wilson, S.J. who has been eleven years on Loyola's staff.

It is unusual, but not improper, for a Catholic family to give a child any middle name but a saint's. Five generations ago there was a Rev. Samuel Knox, a Scots Presbyterian minister who became president of Baltimore City College. First-born male descendants took his name, even when Jesuit Wilson's Catholic grand mother took her children into her church. Born in Chicago 51 years ago last week, Samuel Knox Wilson studied in the Mid west, taught in Jesuit institutions including Loyola, took a doctorate in history at Cambridge. At college he improved his health playing football but he distrusts the intercollegiate sport, will keep it out of Loyola as it has been for three years (TIME, Dec. 15, 1930).