University of Pittsburgh - Owl Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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The next step was to educate the young. On Feb. 28, 1787, the Gen- eral Assembly of Pennsylvania granted a charter for a Pittsburgh Academy. IKE most able faculties, Pitt's faculty is sel- dom in the public gaze. This reticence is more the result of an instinctive distaste for external show than from a lack of achievement. These unassuming men who take such spirited interest in the students they teach are many of them universally celebrated in their particular fields, During the course of the past year Pitt faculty members wrote 27 books and contributed 284 articles to advanced magazines. Each de- partment of every school of the University has members who have distinguished themselves in their fields. Perhaps the accolade of fame has come most often to the Chemistry Department. Here Charles Glenn King first isolated and identified Vitamin C. In addition he has had 54 research papers published. Dr. Alexander Silverman, Head of the Department, is an international authority on glass. He has been United States representative to world glass conferences the past five years. Professor Alexander Lowy, author of the widely used An Introduction to Organic Chemistry, has served often as an industrial consultant. Further up the hill, in Alumni Hall, many figures tread from class to class who, too, have given exceptional service. Professor Ben Wil- liams of the Political. Science Department has given his subject its most widely used text: THE FACULTY-1937 The Economic Foreign Policy of the United States. He has just finished a new book, American Diplomacy Policy, used by his International Relations class. Dr. William T. Root, the jovial Dean of the Graduate School, is the author of the Handbook of American Prisons and Reformatoriesf' Dr. Root, who is probably Pitt's busiest man, also heads the Psychology Department, in which Dr. Florence M. Tea- garden and Dr. Giovanni Giarlini, psychiatric head of Western Penitentiary, are well known for their research papers in this field. Several faculty members in Alumni Hall aid in city and state government, among them being Dr. Brynjolf Iakob Hovde of the History Department who is Pittsburgh's Welfare Director, and Dr. Elmer Graper, Head of the Department of Political Science, who is the chief advisor to the present city administration. Dr. Marion T. McKay, of the Economics Department is also active in civic life, and has been retained on state and federal advisory taxation committees, a subject on which he is Pennsylvania's leading authority. At present he is financial advisor to the Pennsylvania Department of Public Instruc- tion. From the same department other men are notable. Dr. Carroll R. Daugherty, a research worker, is a national labor authority. His new book Labor Problems in Industry is used in di I . i 4. . t ' DR ELMEH D- GRAPER DR. SAMUEL H. WILLIAMS fessor and Head of the Department Professor of Biology of Political Science DR. ALEXANDER SILVERMAN Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry DR. CHARLES GLENN KING Professor of Chemistry 29

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Hugh, Henry Bmckenridge, Pitts- bnrgh's leading citizen, who for years had lead the drive for a school was the main force in secur- ing the charter. ADMINISTRATORS . . . 1787-1937 first faculty member to become Head of the Uni- versity. During his term he made many friends for the University and helped to extend the aca- demic structure of the University. Pittsburgh was meanwhile rapidly becoming the industrial cen- ter of the country and engineers were in de- mand. With this growing need in mind, the next two Chancellors, William Iacob Holland, Ph.D., D.D., 0891-19011, and lohn Alfred Bra- shear, Sc.D., LL.D., fActing Chancellorl, placed special emphasis on the scientific and engineer- ing courses. Dr. Holland established a School of Engineering and affiliated the Medical, Dental, Pharmacy, and Law Schools with the University. Samuel Black McCormick, D.D., LL.D., Chan- cellor from 1904 to 1920, presided over the Uni- versity during its next period of expansion. It was during his term of office that the Graduate 5 HENRY M. MacCRACKEN WILLIAM 1. HOLLAND Schools, the Extension Division, and the Evening School were added to the University. The West- ern University of Pennsylvania moved from A1- legheny to Oakland and became the University of Pittsburgh during his regime, too, and Mellon Institute, the School of Education, the School of Economics latter 1923 the School of Business Administrationj, and the professional schools were no longer merely affiliated groups but in- tegral parts of the University. In 1920, lohn Gabbert Bowman, LL.D., became Chancellor of the University. He supplied the inspiration for the great expansion program of the past fifteen years. His idea, now a concrete development, supplied the University with much needed space in a beautiful form and what is, perhaps, more important, he emphasized the need for good teaching. I 4 MILTON B. GOFF

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DR. IUDSON ADAMS CRANE Professor of Law many of the leading universities. Dr. lohn M. Ferguson aided Farrar 81 Rinehart, publishers, in editing Spahr's Principles of Economics, a widely used textbook. In the History Department several men have distinguished themselves: Dr. John W. Oliver and Dr. Alfred P. lames in the field of American history, and Dr. N. Andrew N. Cleven whose specialty is Hispanic-American history. Dr. Whitford H. Shelton, Head of the Language Department, is author of several elementary and advanced French textbooks in wide present use. One of the most popular high school Spanish texts has been written by Dr. Michael Angelo De Vitis. Two members of the Philosophy De- partment are well known in their field, these being Dr. Mont R. Gabbert, Department Head, and Dr. O. L. Reiser. Both have written research papers of note. Several books fresh from the press have been written by Pitt teachers. Dr. Samuel Williams, of the Biology Department, has recently pub- lished The Living World, the first compre- hensive text on Nature Study. The book contains some three hundred illustrations many of which were taken on Dr. Williams' four expeditions into the Green Hell of British Guiana, the largest and least explored jungle in the world. The DR. CARROLL R. DAUGHERTY Professor of Economics Living World is a basic college text in Nature Study and a supplementary text for elementary courses in Ecology or field Biology. It is one of six books Dr. Williams has written in Zoology. Dr. Robert Hance, of the Biology Department, has just published a comprehensive outline study of Zoology, Visual Outline of Zoology. A book has been published recently by Dr. Harold A. Phelps of the Sociology Department, Principles and Laws of Sociology. Dr. Phelps is author of two other books and several magazine articles. D. D. Lessenberry's revised copy of Twentieth Century Typewriting for College has lately left press. Mrs. Agnes L. Starrett has recently fin- ished her book, Through One Hundred and Fifty Years, the history of the University of Pittsburgh. One of the country's three leading composi- tion systems is the Hunt Composition System, devised by Professor Percival Hunt, Head of the English Department. George Carver, Professor of English, is one of the most prolific writers among our faculty members. He has written eleven books and more than sixty magazine articles and has acted as consultant for several publishing concerns. In State Hall a familiar figure is Montfort lones, Banking expert and champion story teller of the University. Dr. The purpose of the academy, as stated 'in the charter, was to educate the youth of Pittsburgh tu useful arts, sciences, and literature. ' ll ' III 30 Mas. AGNES LYNCH STAHRETT Assistant Professor of English