Chapel Hill, May 4—Dr. Archibald Henderson will not accept the presidency of the University of Oklahoma. He formally declined the offer tonight in a telegram sent to Judge A.A. McDonald, chairman of the board of regents, which was made public. At the same time he issued a statement to the press in which he said that “the crucial factors in my decision have been the great promise of the University of North Carolina as the center and spontaneous expression of desire on the part of our people that I remain in North Carolina.”
Discussing the matter informally, Dr. Henderson said that his deeply rooted affection for North Carolina coupled with hundreds of expression from Tar Heels urging him to stay, were the factors in his decision that more than offset the offer of the leadership of an institution offering a bigger salary and with a student body twice the size of that here.
From the front page of the Concord Daily Tribune, Tuesday, May 5, 1925
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