Illinois Institute of Technology - Integral / Lewis Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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HARRY PRATT JUDSON Rah, rah, rail ; rah, rah, rah ; rah, rah, rah — Judson! This is the noise they make over on the south side when the venerable form with the white mustache and the twinkling blue eyes appears. For Harry Pratt has still a good deal of the boy in him, as his first name shows, even if he is more than three score years and ten, and about to resign from the presidency of the University of Chicago. He has been president since 1906, and was Dean of the Faculty for fourteen or fifteen years before that, in short from the founding behind Director Carman in every educational experiment that the Director has attempted, some of them very important. President Judson made the opening address when Lewis Institute began its glorious career in 1896. He had known the Director years before and was on hand to back him up even then, at the very start. The President has occasionally come to the Institute and made welcome addresses. We have it from Frank Beezeley, president of the Union this year, that Prexy once made us a most impressive address on the cost of educating a college man. Frank gave us the figures and any freshman can see them by calling at the Annual office.

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HARRY LORD WELLS We started this series of biographical sketches with proper formality, drawing on Dr. Lewis and Mr. Mowat for facts and phrases. But we have been getting more and more informal all the time, until we have arrived at the youngest member of the Board of Managers, where we aren ' t quite so afraid of failing to preserve the right decorum. Mr. Wells is the Alumni representative. The Alumni do not have the formal privilege of nominating a member of the Board, but the old boys are tickled to death to see somebody of their own age admitted to the solemn conclaves of the graybeards. Which reminds us that there isn ' t a beard in the whole distinguished bunch. Mr. Wells succeeds his father, Mr. Addison Wells. In private life — that ' s what they say about actors — Harry Lord Wells is secretary of the Wells Brothers Construction Company. So this builder has come in to help build the future Lewis Institute, and may he live to see the dreams of all the loyal Alumni come true. He has one very great advantage over all other Alumni — he married the charming daughter of Judge Kohlsaat. Helen Kohlsaat Wells is what they call persona grata to everybody. Twenty-one