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

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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 , ,,...,.. ........-..:.-.-.-----'

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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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. - ,f,,fms'TE at q'f'M'LJs' Q T . vtxr'm'w 3-i ft g 5: L- fygmrf'--rv .,.r.,.,.....4..,x.:.,.,.....,...,,....,..,. i - , . ., , , ..1-T-A---A-H -- - fs-JN mfg. ff. .una -ET., .,- kr sf sf G ,gninf U Y ' f WA- 5-W 'iL'.Y.1v2Qg-M35 ' g A r . A. so f A A, THE COLLEGE OF ARTS LITERATURE AND SCIENCES 1' A.:f1A ' fe.. -- A 1... .AAAAAA Through the medium of deans and Fresh- man advisers, the college of Arts, Literature, and Science has endeavored to develop a system which will further individual guidance for students, establish Faculty-Student co- operation, bring about a fair balance between the many under-graduate interests, and, in particular, encourage and improve both group and individual scholarship. Dean VVilkins has introduced special orien- tation courses for Freshmen and Sophomores, and he is now working on plans for Honor Courses and other types of independent study in the Junior and Senior years. The following staff of deans was appointed in the Autumn Quarter of IQ23 to assist Dean Wilkins in carrying out this program: Deans Boucher, Allee, Glattfield, Kingsbury, lVIacClintock, Norton, Smith, Breckinridge, Flint, Link and Wallace. Dean Wilkins graduated from Amherst and studied in the Graduate Schools of John Hopkins and Harvard, teaching at Amherst and Harvard before coming to the University of Chicago. He is a professor of Romance Languages, his special interest being in Italian Literature. Dean NIacClintock has grown up in the University of Chicago. He is an instructor of Geology, and, as dean, has charge of one-fourth of the men in the Colleges of Arts and Literature. Dean Kingsbury studied at Central College, Yale, and at the University of Chicago. He taught in Grand Island College and Ottawa University before coming here. He is associate professor of Psychology and as dean he has charge of one-fourth of the men in the College of Arts and Literature. Dean Norton graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and took his doctorate here. He has taught in both institutions. He is now associate professor of Bacteriology. As dean he has charge of one-fourth of the men in the College of Arts and Literature. DEAN XKVILKINS SMITH Kixcsi tm C5I.A'I'TFI ID Page 22