Syracuse University - Onondagan Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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Um Ghm WILLIAM PERSON TOLLEY

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CHANCELLOR'S MESSAGE This year there has been a strange silence over the Archbold Stadium and we have missed our varsity sports. Fraternity houses have been leased to soldiers and coeds, and extra-curricular activities have lacked their pre-war luster. Dining halls have been crowded and in the dormi- tories three or four are living where two lived before. Acceleration is still the rule, with com- mencements frequent but holidays brief and rare. Nevertheless it has been a significant time for undergraduate study and we shall not forget this year of adjustment to war. The four thousand men in uniform have contributed much to uni- versity life. The endless singing and marching, the Saturday review, the Air Corps and ASTP dances, the informality of evenings of Open House, the all University parties at Drumlins, and the fine program of Hendricks Chapel have all made their mark upon our memories. Next year we shall have fewer men in uniform and more room for civilian students. The days of crowding will be over. Basketball and perhaps other sports will return and the curriculum will be more concerned with the arts of peace and the problems of the post-war world. Fra- ternities may also get under way again as boys return from military service. Yes, life will be more normal next year, but probably not more interesting. For in peace or in war Syracuse Uni- versity is'a very interesting place.

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Finla G. Crawford 5 VICE CHANCELLCDR Vice Chancellor Finla G. Crawford, Dean of Liberal Arts, is the coordinator of all the deans on campus. If one of them has a problem relative to the general policy of the University, the Vice-Chancellor's office sees that the difnculties are handled similarly under one set of rules. Dean Crawford also takes over the Chancellor's'duties in the 'event of his absence. Although he assists Acting Dean Piskor of the Office of Men's Affairs in handling all contacts between draft boards and registered men, his main concern has been primarily with the civilian aspect of this military campus. It is his duty to see that the enrolled students of the University are situated in as normal and pleasant an atmosphere as possible He is chair- man of the University Social Committee and the Uni- versity Scholarship Committee. Vice-Chanccllor Crawford was graduated from Alfred University in 1915 and did graduate work in po- litical science at the University of Wisconsin where he was awarded a fellowship. A member of the faculty for the last twenty years, he came to Syra- cuse University in 1919, after serving as first Lieu- tenant with the war plane division of the army dur- ing the war, and member of the service staff in Wash- ington following the war. His advancement from assistant professorship in 1919 to professorship in 1921 was a stepping stone to his appointment as chairman of the political science department in 1925. He was appointed dean of Liberal Arts in 1937, and vice chancellor in 1942. Teacher, educator, adminis- trator, and leader, he is the author of many books, pamphlets, and articles on government.