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

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i1:saf+s-:filed Q A irgms,-gg GQ www g cc ERNEST DEWLTT BURTON Ernest De'Witt Burton was the third president of the University of Chicago. Like his predecessors, Harper and Judson, he was one of those who cast in his lot with the University at its very beginning, and helped to originate and develop its policies. On assuming the presidency, he was completely familiar with the history of the University and was imbued with its ideals. He was called to the presidency in 1923. In a memorial adopted by the University Trustees, one reads: His inspiring leadership quickened all departments of the University's life and kindled new aspirations for the future. By Words and deeds alike, and not least through his winning personality, he led the University into that highroad of development which will be its path of progress for years and even decades to come. His inspiring vision and keen realization of the possibilities of helpful cooperation between the University and the city, brought to the University in new and fuller measures the support and good will of the citizens of Chicago, and he sowed seeds of a friendship and cooperation which cannot fail to bear large fruit in the future. The period of his presidency- two glorious years -was all too brief, but will loom larger and larger in retrospect as epoch-making in the history of the University. Page 20 lil 1 ll l.. lil ll ill Qi lli 3: ,,, Vi il3 gn ill ill ln all ,. il lf ,H H. . g x llill eg 151, El lg, 12 lil w J rf' . I 'Xl C

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me '-f H wry' An,-,A-,,, ,,3:,,, iw-3-, f-Q, ,ax ,, N-A f- ,- .1-, - . f f. Y K . A f .X 7 L, ,., 1' MN ,I ., 5, fn- ,4 , 4 , I' ,,,-,i,l,1, ,.....,...,.r.,.....- f -..J T n ' -.1 .,,,,, ,,..- -,,, 0 A44 1 1 Lx, fws. ! 5. -A ff-' -' '- v ' ,gn-2 E741 -4-x,,x.:.,.,., a .. Y. ,.,.,-i.,,..i,...-.1 :L ...aaa --L- . f iii .... f-WW ,fgg ,',A5 AH THE BOARD OF 559, f 'P TRUSTEES :MTW A, .,.,, 1. 7.-.9 1 ' K T .- - - In the custody of the University and under the Trustees' oversight, is the property valued at more than 565,000,000 They must take steps to invest the endowments. The budget is intended to provide from available income not only for the' com- pensation of the teaching staff and of administrative officers, but for every ex- pense of the University including the salaries of some 2,000 persons. The pro- verbial student on President Hopkins' log is all well enough for metaphor, but steam- heated, electric-lighted dormitories and class-rooms are essential for teachers and , youths during winter on the Midway. The expenses of the University for the fiscal year of 1925-26 are approximately 84,000,000 and every cent of this huge sum must be both conservatively earned and wisely expended. A notable task which devolves upon the Trustees is the development and use of the grounds- campus is the old word not applicable here. The well-considered se- Sammy lection of sites for buildings, their relation to buildings already completed, and others to be erected, requires the highest type of good judgment, and of enlightened foresight. The fact that at the present time buildings costing over 58,000,000 to complete and more than SIS0,000, it is estimated, annually to conserve, is an example of their responsibility. While the Trustees as a body-a corporation-are responsible for the Univer- sity's property and progress, necessarily they must entrust to individuals the administration of their trust. The list of officers of the Board is given herewith. lvfr. Harold H. Swift was elected as Trustee in 1914. He was made President of the Board in 1922, succeeding Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, who had been annually elected for previous thirty years. Mr. Swift is a graduate of the University of Chicago in the Class of 1907, and is one of the six alumni Cincluding Mr. Eli B. Felsenthal, graduate of the old Universityj members of the Board. He was a leader in his student days, he has efhciently served among the alumni, he is an active olhcer of a huge corporation, a citizen who shrinks no duties for the better- ment of his fellow men. He is a careful, fair-minded, time-giving President of the Board. To the University he has been a liberal contributor. Mr. Spencer Dickerson, Secretary of the Board of Trustees, was first elected a Trustee in 1909, and Secretary in 1913. He is also Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union and of that of Rush Medical College. J. SPENCER DICKERSON Page IQ

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,nw W W Hmm -Y-K 9 .. ,Q , . r , -K Iii, ,ll W' if Q43 LJ iX.f'X'4 iNi t MAX MASON In the appointment of Max Mason to the presidency of the University of Chicago August 21, 1925, the Trustees, for the first time in the history of the in- stitution, selected a man from outside its academic family. Trustees and Faculties who had known and labored with Harper, Judson, and Burton, had realized that a time must come when a President must be sought from the outside , but everyone had looked forward to that event with more or less anxiety. Would it be possible to find a man who could and would have sympathetic understanding of the University's approved ideals and traditions, and at the same time bring to his oliice a thoroughly progressive policy? That question has beenianswered to the complete satisfaction of Trustees, Faculties, Alumni, students, and the general public. The Committee of the Board of Trustees based their appointment of Dr. Mason upon the following considerations: 'LI-Ie has a distinguished record as a scientist and teacher which will command the coniidence of the faculty and the respect of the community, he is a man of strong character and high ideals who will give vigorous moral leadership, he has unusual human qualities and breadth of view and a deep interest in the develop- ment of the student into a person of character and usefulness to society, he will enlist the interest and receive the cordial support of the students and the alumni, he will, we believe, through his intellectual alertness and broad human sympathies be able to secure the interest and cooperation of leaders of thought in the city of Chicago and elsewhere? Events have confirmed these prophetic judgments of the Board of Trustees. Page 21 -.,..-- . ., 1 N ffm , .., J -V: Y ,Riu L Y Y b A , v , A -..ala . ,... 7e.a-..,--.-.,-Q-----W en- I ,Q ,,'L1-rgiilsi: m ' LZL , ,,...,.. ........-..:.-.-.-----'