Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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I A, .-. ., ,g,lSQ'IQ::fig'D .4 ,,L,LL-at .. ..1,,,. l,1,,,gf I. 1. --1, ,, Y ,Y I . -. ,I 3 -Vg 0,5 -1 ,, - , 4, ., k 'J . - ' '- ' . . - Z ' . A 1 - . ' gt+....3i..fs .,. , ,-...., --. D. i W Wig- ' ' ' ..':l.m.z1.. 1-'Lim Q. if-..l...u. -aa-2.1 . . ,sagusfiegmr ' - is-:-'t' D, ww' .. ff l ' W11.1,1.xM A, DYCHE Busirzlfss :Uanrzgcr of the University OUR PRESIDENT 'flhfalter Dill Scott was born in Cooksville, Illinois, May 1, 1869. He graduated from Illinois State Normal in 18915 from Northwestern University, A.B., 1895, and from McCormick Theo- logical Seminary in 1898. I-Ie received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Leipsic in 1900, and was granted the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Cornell College in 1921. Dr. Scott's life work has centered almost exclusively around Northwestern University. In 1901 he was appointed Associate Professor of Psychology, in 1908, Professor of Psychology, and in 1920 was elected President of the University by unanimous vote of the trustees. In 1916-17, on leave of absence, he was Director of the Bureau of Salesmanship Research at Carnegie Technical Institute. In 1919-21 he was president of the Scott Company, Consultants and Engineers in Industrial Personnel. I-Ie is the author of The Theory of Advertiring, Pfyehology of Public Speaking, Injfneneing .Men in Burineff, Inerearing Human Ejfeieney, Pryehology of Advertiring in Theory and Practice, Science and Coinmon Senre in Working with Mevi, Perronnel Management, and other books, all noted for thorough-going scholarship and practical value. From 1917 to 1919 Dr. Scott was Director of the Committee on Classification of Personnel in the United States Army. He started with a desk, a chair and one clerk. Under this committee 3,655,000 men were classified. For every job in the army there was an exact definition of duties, and for every man in the army there was an exact description of his abilities. For every unit in the army specifications were prepared showing just what each man must be able to do, and these tables were then used in selecting the right man for special organizations and units in line or staff corps. VVhen the committee went out of ofhce it turned back S25o,ooo of the fund which had been appropriated for its use. It was noted for its wise use of funds and for' its remarkable efhciency. President Scott's service to Northwestern University has been of priceless value. Educa- tional standards have been raised, faculties have been strengthened, students are selected with greatest care, personnel work with students has been installed, and his methods here are being copied elsewhere. Under his leadership a great campaign was conducted, by which the financial resources of the University were vastly increased. As a result of this and other work lVIcKinlock Memorial Campus with its magnificent buildings now houses the professional schools, the new stadium has been in use for three years, fourteen sorority houses and two open dormitories provide for almost ive hundred of the women of the University. Recently 53,000,000 has been given which will eventually yield a large sum for scholarships. And now the President is hard at Work to bring about a development on the Evanston Campus that will equal the progress made in Chicago. Walter Dill Scott is in his ninth year of service as President of the University. It is my hope that he may be our President as long as he lives,'for, to use his own slogan, we feel welhave the right man in the right place. ' ' ADMINISTRATION Twenty-three -.,.- -'.,,V V.,-V , 9 ,A -,V . .- v--. ,, . Y ff ..-D., -17 if? .F .e,, as .fu 1 r s -ff, . ' ,1 . - . 1 wif' igmjff ' 'X Q- 'X.f,I.-Y a. -., .nf nies- .,, ,N , .

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Twenty-two K .4 , A ,.w LESLIE M. GOODER President ofthe Alumni Association A MESSAGE TO THE CLASS OF 1930 'WVhen you shall have completed your college course, we trust that it will not be merely to become nominal alumni, assuming a relation to the University represented only by a gradually failing memory of happy days gone by. No, let your relation to the University be ever increasingly vital and dynamic. Keep up your contacts with the University. The spirit of Northwestern is something you cannot afford to have fade out of your lives-and without care it will fade and dwindle, smothered out by a gradually increasing pressure of other interests. c'Of the sons and daughters of Northwestern who treasure their relation to her, over seven thousand are making an active, organized and sustained effort to promote a greater, liner North- western, and in doing so, they are preserving and nurturing some- thing of what is best in their own lives. ADMINISTRATION 1 fx. fi ' 1

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THE ACHIEVEMENT OF THE GREATER ROBERT W. CAMPBELL l,7'l'S1'!II'7lf of the Board of Truslees NORTHVVESTERN A survey of the past few years at Northwestern University reveals a decided period of achievement. The teaching and scientific staff have made very definite contributions to the educational and professional world and to society in general. The new lVIcKinlock campus with its stately buildings is now operating eiiiciently and its possibilities are unlimited. The accomplishments of Northwestern undergraduates have penetrated every branch of university life. Their activities have produced improved publications, competent debating teams and dramatic groups, athletic teams that have won often and established more than one world record, and with it all an organization and conduct that have merited the highest praise. The fact that Northwestern University is attracting to its campuses the most desirable young men and women from all over the country assures for the University a future of great promise for which the present 'fperiod of achievementw is only a foundationf' THE COLLEGE GF LIBERAL ARTS The College has for some time enrolled so many students that it is impossible for any single person to become acquainted with them all. The invitation to make this brief statement is accepted therefore as an unusual and welcome opportunity, since the Syllabus reaches the individual student with a definite interest of its own. Faculty .members and students are parts of one of those very large organizations which modern universities have become. None of us would, I feel sure, even if we could, change our institution in those aspects which make it really a university. Yet here as else- where the factors of greatest strength may become those of great Weakness. Fully aware of this truth, the College strives constantly to keep uppermost in its mind the fact that it is operated for the student, and not for the benefit of the curriculum nor the glory of the faculty. YVe wish that we of the administration of the College might know each of our 2,436 students personally, and advise with them individually. Although that is a manifest impossibility, let us not forget our mutual responsibility toward the true growth of our University. It will suffer from any careless and unfair criticism, while it can only be helped by that which is loyal and constructive. 1 RAYMOND A. ISTENT Dean of the College Tulzvlly-fvur A D M I N I S T R A T I O N