Stephen Jones, 2nd president

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Stephen Jones, 1889 - 1894

Jones came to the University from a high school in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He was a student of classical languages, receiving his training from Dartmouth and at the universities at Munster and Bonn in Germany. The faculty increased to 15 members during his presidency, and enrollment grew to 179 in his final year as president. The University observed its first graduating class, in 1891, during the Jones presidency.