Changes

==Academic career==

==Academic career==

Cottingham moved to Louisiana to become from 1902 to 1905 a professor of [[Greek]] and [[philosophy]] at the defunct Mount Lebanon College, sometimes called Mount Lebanon University, a forerunner of Louisiana College, locatedin Bienville Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Cottingham served as the last president of Mount Lebanon from 1905–1906, when he became from 1906 to1910 a founding professor of the new Louisiana College. His tenure as LC president stretched from 1910 to 1941, when he became the tenth president of Louisiana Tech, formerly known as '''Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.'''<ref name=lahist/>​

Cottingham moved to Louisiana to become from 1902 to 1905 a professor of [[Greek]] and [[philosophy]] at the defunct Mount Lebanon College, sometimes called Mount Lebanon University, a forerunner of Louisiana College, locatedin Bienville Parish in northwestern Louisiana. Cottingham served as the last president of Mount Lebanon from 1905–1906, when he became from 1906 to1910 a founding professor of the new Louisiana College. His tenure as LC president stretched from 1910 to 1941, when he became the tenth president of Louisiana Tech, formerly known as Louisiana Polytechnic Institute.<ref name=lahist/>​

A world traveler, Cottingham was still serving at Louisiana Tech when he died at the age of sixty-eight in [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]], where he was visiting his older daughter, Mary Virginia Majors, who lived in Mexico.<ref name=lahist/>​

A world traveler, Cottingham was still serving at Louisiana Tech when he died at the age of sixty-eight in [[Mexico City]], [[Mexico]], where he was visiting his older daughter, Mary Virginia Majors, who lived in Mexico.<ref name=lahist/>​