Butler University - Carillon / Drift Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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1 7he DRIFT I Board of Diredlors. OFFICERS HILTON U. BROWN President STANLEY SELLICK Secretary and Treasurer. JOHN W. ATHERTON Financial Secretary MEMBERS W. H. Book Chauncy Butler Scot Butler John E. Canaday James L. Clark William G. Irwin Henry Jameson Emsley W. Johnson Hugh Th. Miller Allan B. Philputt Perry H. Clifford R. F. Davidson George B. Davis Thomas W. Grafton Marshall Hacker George F. Quick Marshall T. Reeves GiRNiE L. Reeves Merle Sidener Zach. T. Sweeney Ticcuty-foiir

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From Our Founder to Our La President It is a far cry from Butler ' s founder to her last president, far in years from 1854 to 1907, vet in the period from 1907 to 1920, the college ex- panded over one hundred per cent. It is difficult to make any division of honor between those who made the present possible and those who have so well developed this heritage. Ovid Butler, who did so much toward the founding of this college, accomplished a great work which his successors have continued. We are here concerned with one of those suc- cessors in particular. Ovid Butler Thomas Carr Howe enrolled in Butler College in September of 1884. made a good scholastic record, took part in the activities of the school, and graduated m the year of 1889. After spending two years in university study abroad and subsequently acting as head of the German department in our institution for a period of four years, he was granted leave of absence to attend Harvard Univer- sity as a graduate student where he received his Doctor ' s degree in 1899 and returned to Butler as a professor until 1907, when he was appointed president of the college. The college opened in 1907 with an enrollment of 183 undergraduate stud- ents, or an enrollment of 464, which included the various other departments, such as the Preparatory School, Teachers ' College Study Department, School of Music, School of Art, Summer Session, and graduate students. With the close of June, 1920, the student enrollment was 617, or a total of 1,004, including the above named departments with the exception of the prepara- torv school, and the Schools of Music and of Art, which have been discontinued for a number of vears. The enrollment last fall reached 676. Until the end of 1907, six hundred diplomas bad been granted. The number reached 1,029 last June, of which Mr, Howe signed 429 himself. In the same period the faculty has grown from eighteen members to thirty-six, and various new courses have been added to the curriculum. With Doctor Howe ' s native ability and fine character, combined with his thorough scholastic training, he has placed Butler College in a high position among the outstanding colleges of the covmtry and it is with great pride that we point to the results of his service to our Alma Mater. T. C. Howe Tivcniv-tlirce

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FACVLTY Dean J. W. Putnam, Acting President Tzvejity-fk ' e