University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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l l ADOLPHUS CLAY BARTLETT Died May 30, 1922 The death of Adolphus Clay Bartlett was a great shock and the source of extreme sorrow to the University of Chicago. Mr. Bartlett was a Trustee of the University from I900 until his death in l922. He was one of the earliest and most prominent members of the Board, and he gave of his ripe business experience to the institution as a labor of love. Long chairman of the Finance Committee, he was one of the wisest advisors in the many investments of trust funds. He was always ready to lay aside his business cares and give his time and thought to the University. He was greatly interested in the undergraduates of the University, and he tried constantly to help them with his advice and influence. He believed in the physical development of the men of the University and he tried his best to provide facilities for this training. From his sorrow at the death of a loved son in the midst of a college course, he realized keenly the needs of student life, and provided a large fund for the erection of the Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium-a building which is endeared to the students of the University. With the aid rendered by this wonderful gift the University has been able to increase the efficiency of the physical training given to the undergraduate men and to better develop those who enter athletics. A man of large experience in life, rising by his own native energy and ability, he became one of the most eminent citizens of Chicago. He was a genial companion, a sterling friend, and a true American. His loss will be felt deeply in the whole community, and especially in the councils of the University. Page Twrlffe

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we Denicate this Bunk to Hlhert iihraham Ejbicbelsun E gathered up the iris from the plunging planet's rim With bright precision of fingers that Uriel envies him. But when from the plunging planet he spread out a hand to feel How fast the ether drifted hack through flesh or stone or steel, The fine fiducial fingers felt no ethereal hreath. They peneiled the night in a cross of light and found it as still as death. Have the stars conspired against him? Do measurements only seem? Are time and space hut shadows enmeshed in a private dream? But, dreaming or not, he measured. He made him a rainbow har, And jirst he measured the measures of man, and then he measured a star. Now tell us how long is a meter, lest fire should steal it away? He shall fashion it anew, immortal, of the crimson cadmium Tay. Now tell us how hig is Antares, a spear-point in the night? Four hundred million miles across a single point of light. He has taught a world to measure. They read the furnace and gauge By the lines of the fringe of glory that knows nor aging nor age. - EDWIN H. LEWIS. Page Elaveiz

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51 1' MRS. ANNIE HITCHCOCK Died June 29, l922 There has always been a lurking suspicion that comforts were not good accompaniments of students' livesg that hardships and earnest work were necessary to each other. But Mr. Hitchcock, who worked all through his four years in college, always disapproved that theory, and said if a student had to spend half his vital force in merely living, he had that much less force to put into his study and was hindered from making as successful attainment as he was capable of under less hard conditions. So l have had great pleasure in putting into the Hall everything which l possessed that might assist in fitting men for life, mentally and spiritually. QA letter from Mrs. Hitchcock to David Allan Robertson, Head of Hitchcock Hall, July l, I9l3.J Of pioneering stock which reached Chicago in IB37, bringing by way of the Erie Canal and long wagon journeys the mahogany furniture now in the Preacher's Room in Hitchcock Hallg of an early Chicago family which sold its home to afford room for the Michigan Southern depot, and which established a new home where the Hotel! La Salle stands now, Annie McClure Hitchcock made herself a great part of the life of growing Chicago, as did her husband, a distinguished lawyer and president of the Illinois Constitutional Convention. In his memory she built Hitchcock Hall, and in memory of his Dartmouth friend, Daniel L. Shorey, she founded a traveling fellowship in Greek. Her own memory is enshrined in the building to which she gave her dearest possessions, her untiring energy, her stimulating thoughtg and in the hearts of Hitchcock men to whom-both in the l-lall and in her home-she gave her gracious hospitality and her generous friendship. Page Thirteen