Homecoming 1918 started with part-time presidents. What made McKinney's situation different was the fact that he commuted! "He was really an executive in absentia, living in Cincinnati, and coming up every fortnight on the Pennsylvania accommodation."9 Many alumni apparently felt "this made him slightly out of touch" and contended that he "always accosted students with the same two questions, 'What's your name?' and 'Have you paid your tuition?,lo Apparently the students did not view their president as highly as did the Board of Trustees. They did not always understand his solemn Scottish disposition. On at least one occasion this led to an unpleasant situation. "Some of the boys put on a fake 'class rush' and roughhoused him against the blackboard until rescued."ll In a lighter vein, a student mailed a "paving brick" to McKinney's Cincinnati home, C.O.D. However, McKinney was too wise to fall for the prank. "He told the express people that he had not ordered anything. They had to ship it back to Cedarville."12 Most part-time presidents supplemented their administrative responsibilities with teaching but were in residence full-time. Both McKinney and the trustees began to recognize the value of a resident administrator. This recognition was acknowledged in McKinney's resignation from his responsibilities with the college in 1915. Chapter VI/45