New York University School of Commerce - Commerce Violet Yearbook (New York, NY)

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University Council I-IE Council ol' New York UlliX'C'1'SlL5', i11co1'po1'aLecl the 18th of April, 1831, is Z1 self-11c1'l1cl11z1Li11g gOYL'l'llll'Ig board, consisting of thirty-two members, each holding olhcc lor lour years or 1111111 his successor is elecLccl. One-fourth of the members go out ol ollicc each year o11 the lfourth Momlziy of October, when their successors are clcclccl by the Council. Dale of E1f'ffI'077 1899 1913 1919 1919 1921 1922 1926 1927 1929 1930 1930 1931 1931 1931 1931 1931 1932 1933 1933 1933 1933 1935 1936 1936 1937 1937 1938 1939 1939 1939 OFFICERS P1'f'.siu'f'11I . . ....... FRED I. KENT, LL.D. I 1'r'z'-P1'z'.11'flr'11I . .'XI,I,.'XN MELVILL POPE, B.S. QU.S.M.A.j Sr'c'1'r'l1l1'y. . , . . ORRIN R. JUDD, B.C.S., LL.B. Tl'l'fl.S'IIJ'!'7' . . . BENJAMIN STRONG MEMBERS Exjiiratimz of Term IVII,I.I.XNI MORGAN KINCSLIQY, A.M., LL.D. . 1942 IFINLEY JOHNSON SHEPARD , . . 1940 PERCY SELDEN STR.-XUS. AB.. D.C.S, fl'IO1Ij 1942 TRTHITR SNIITH TUTTLE, B.C.. C.E. . 1942 EDIVIN LOUIS G.-XRVIN. AB., LLB., LL.D. 1941 PERCYS.YOUNG.BCS ..... IMO ALBERT EUGENE GALLATIN . . . 1943 YVILLIAM IVHITLOCK BRUSH, MS., C.E. 1941 FRED I. KENT, LL.D ...... 1941 IVILLIAINI HENRY HAMILTON, AB. . . 1941 ARTHUR BUTLER GRAHAM, LL.B. .... 1940 DAVID SARNOFF, Sc.D. CHOIl.D, D.C.S. QHo11.J, Li11.D. 1942 ORRHJR9JUDD,BCSULLB ...... lgy ALLAN MELVILL POPE, B.S. CU.S.M.A.j . 1943 GEORGE EMLEN ROOSEVELT, A.B. . . 1943 BENJAMIN STRONG ..... 1943 SAMUEL ALBURTUS BROWN, M.D., D.P.H ..... 1943 CASS CANFIELD, A.B .......... 1943 HARRY YVOODBURN CHASE, Pl1.D., L,H.D., LitL.D., LL.D. 1940 LAURENCE GEORGE PAYSON, A.B. ...... 1941 MALCOLRIDOUGLASSMH8ON,BCS. IMO R.KEVTH KANE,AJi,LLB ..... . IQQ JAMES D. MOONEY, B.S., M.E., D.E11g ..... 1940 RALPH VV. SOCKMAN, Ph.D., D,D., L.H.D., LL.D., LitL.D. . 1940 PHILIP A. BENSON, B.C.S., C.P.A ...... 1943 JOHN M. SCHIFF, A.B., A.M. fOx011.j . . . 1942 ROBERT'LEHMAN,AB ....... my HAROLD GEORGE CAMPBELL, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. 1940 HENRY B. FERNALD, AB. ...... 1941 JOHN LOWRY, B.S., C.E. 1942 ASSOCIATES OF THE COUNCIL JOSEPH SMITH AUERBACH, A.M., LL.B., Litt.D. WALTER EDVVIN FREW BARKLIE HENRY, A.B. NATHAN L. MILLER, LL.D. JOHN BOND TREVOR, A.M., LL.B., LL.D. 13

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ULD EW Yfllilf UNIVER ITY HE faculty of the School of Commerce in its first years of existence, tooo-oz. consisted of twelve men-five professors and seven lecturers-who taught basic courses in political economy, accounting, and finance to a student body of eighty-nine. Today, forty years after, the Commerce faculty consists of two hundred and sixty-nine members-thirty-four professors, thirty-two associate professors, twenty-five assistant professors, nine lecturers. one hundred and twenty-six in- structors, a medical doctor, an employment secretary, and a secretary of student activities-who teach sixteen major courses. including hundreds of individual subjects, to a student body of 12.805, Charles Waldo Haskins, C.P.A. professor of auditing and of the history of acountancy, was the first dean of the School of Commerce. After his death in 1903. joseph French johnson, A.B. professor of political economy and finance. was appointed dean. Dean Johnson's idea was to secure the service of practical busi- ness men and public accountants as instructors and lecturers along lines in which they have arrived at.eminence. Among the most eminent men Dean johnson obtained were Joseph Hardcastle, Elijah A. Sells, and Frank .-X. Vanderlip. How- ever, the faculty was not a permanent body, and with the growth of the Day Division, Dean johnson saw the necessity of obtaining a group of professors and instructors who couldfdevote most of their time to teaching. Another of Dean johnson's views was that teachers of business subjects should keep in touch with practical affairs of the business world. This policy of appointing men closely associated with the Held which they lectured on is still prevalent. At the start the faculty had to find texts which covered the new subjects that were being taught at Commerce, and so some of the earlier faculty members began writing texts in such subjects as commercial law and accounting. Texts were particularly needed in commercial law, for in 1902 and 1903 Professor Bacon established the first commercial law courses, which were the hrst successful courses of their kind in the country. In 1926 o11r present dean, john T. Hadden, was appointed Dean of the School of Commerce, Accounts, and Finance. Dean Madden had been a student, instruc- tor in accounting, professor and head of the Accounting Department, a11d assistant dean under ex-Dean johnson, Dean Madden has followed the basic ideas 0f Dean johnson in the selection of the faculty of Commerce. That the School of Commerce faculty enjoys the reputation of being one of the best in the country and that thousands of alumni hold good positions in the business world, are indications of the success of the faculty.

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To the Commerce Seniors THERE are those who bewail tl1e lot of the college graduate these days. I am not of the number. On tl1e contrary, seldom has there been a time in my observation 111ore freighted with opportunity than the immediate future. You have pursued your studies during dark days of political tribulation and economic depression. You have fruitfully reversed the ancient adage by making hay while tl1e sun was cloud-bound. If your studies in economics have taught you anything, they have pictured to you the cyclical character of our ups and downs. Certainly we are not far removed from the lowest stage of one of those cycles. The turn of the years and tl1e consequent turn of the cycle must inevitably carry us up- ward. You are literally in on the ground floor in the rebuilding of a newer and liner social 2l1'1Cl economic structure. That your training here will stand you in good stead as opportunities confront you, I haven't the least doubt, and I bid you Godspeed with the utmost confidence in your future. Clmricellor. CHANCELLOR HARRY IMooDBURN CHASE Born at Groveland, Massachusetts, on April 11, 1883, Dartmouth College 1904, A.B., 1908, A.M., Clark University, 1910, Pl1.D., Lenoir College, 1920, LL.D., Lake Forest College, 1920, LL.D., University of Georgia, 1923, LL.D., Dartmouth College, 1925, LL.D., University of North Carolina, 1930, LL.D., Rollins College, 1931, Doctor of Hu111a11ities, University of Michigan, 1932, LL.D., Lafayette College, 1933, LL.D., Columbia University, 1933, Litt.D., Franklin and Marshall College, 1937, LL.D., Director of clinic for sub-normal children, Clark University, 1909-10, Professor of Philosophy of Education, 1910- 14, Professor of Psychology, 1914-19, Acting Dean, College of Liberal Arts, Uni- versity of North Carolina, October, 1918 to January, 1919, Cl1air111an of the Faculty, January, 1919 to June, 1919, President of the University of North Carolina, 1919-30, President of the University of Illinois, 1930-33, Chancellor of New York University, July 1, 1933. President of the Hundred Year Association, Chairman of the Division on Educational Institutions, Chairman of the Greater New York Fund, Director of the Town Hall, Director of the Society for tl1e Churchis W'ork with Students, Director of the National Advisory Council on Radio in Education, Trustee of the League for Political Education, Trustee of the Phelps-Stokes Fund, Trustee of the Russell Sage Foundation, President of the Lotos Club, Editorial Board of the American Scholar, Executive Board of the American Association for Adult Education, Ofhcer of the Ordre de la Couronne de Chene QDecoration con- ferred in March, 19365, Chairman of the Committee on Education, New York W0rld's Fair, 1939. 14