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

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,, I. ie! li: ll? lx I - Qi -V a If O - I, I A -'ra:x,sc A SCHOOL OF COMMERCE ' ?wWg AND ADMINISTRATION QR?- , , Q, VAVAA: . zv. up I I p ' William H. Spencer was graduated from the Birmingham Southern College, Birming- I 1 ham, Alabama, with an S.B. degree in IQO7. ll In 191 he received from the Universit of , 3 Y Chicago his Ph.B. and ID. degree. After ., teaching Political Science at the University of Chicago for One year he became Professor of I1 Law at Drake University. A ear later he returne to t e niversity O icago as n- d h U ' ' f Cli' I ll structor in Business Law in the School of V Commerce and Administration. DEAN theI5Cii3S? OiecliiiiingijeaIiiissfiiiiiiiiliiigoii EQ He continued in this capacity until IQ24 when lliil he was made Dean of the School of Commerce and Administration to take the fleli place left vacant by the resignation of Dean Marshall. I . ig, Dean Spencer 18 the author of three volumes of Law and Business which are used extensively as texts in the schools of business throughout the country. These E, are the first texts which classify' the subject matter of business law in accordance ll . . . .. . . . . .. H1 vspth the functional divisions of administrative activities. He is also the author 2 O numerous articles which have been published in legal and business magazines. iz, lu. lil THE WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY COUNCIL El' I It There is a new group this year among the University Ruling Bodies. It is a 3 Mysterious Stranger, its name does not appear in the University Statutes. This Ll, is because it is an experiment, on trial for a year. If it proves promising, the term gil Dean of Women will become obsolete at Chicago. lg' For the VVomen's University Council, in Conjunction with the Social Director ,l' Canother new ohicel, is exercising the functions hitherto performed by the Dean 9 of Women. It is interested in everything that concerns women students, from lxlfl, the Graduate Classical Club to eligibility for initiation into a secret society, from ill the ideals and aims of House life to the desirable number of cubic feet of space per person and the proper ratio of showerbaths to Ill residents in the VVomen's Residence Hall. Q I I The membership of the Council at present is seven- I ,li teen, with an executive committee of five. The mem- ljl bers are: Mrs. Edith Foster Flint, Chairman, Miss Gertrude Dudley, Dr. Marie Ortmayer, hfIiss Eliza- lp beth W'allace, lVIrs. Letitia Fyife NIerrill, NIrs. Florence if Goodspeed, IXfIiss Beulah Smith, hfiss Edith Abbott, ll, hffiss S. P. Breckinridge, lNIiss Frances Gillespie, Mfrs. li Adeline de Sale Link, Nliss Katherine Blunt, Nfiss ,Q Edith Rickert, NIiss Hazel Kirk, Bliss NIargaret Burns, Bliss Gertrude Smith and NIiss Helen Jester. The significant features of the Council are two: that it is not a scheme given over to women to carry out, but was devised by a group of women themselves, and that it provides for a pooling ofthe knowledge and experience of women from many different colleges and many different fields of teaching and research. DEAN FLINT Page' 28

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---L-f----------H . ,Y,.,,rtif' QQ., V ,-. V f-., ,ax .T A ii 'iii A rua: , W, l 4 li :..f,-5--:--W.. f i 316115, rw ,,-f Cy 1. Q5 ggi Aj----V--T-.--5-9-7---W fi 'l gM'i 'n T ii C M D A tif gi . -a - - T -W All W fA,1q W - ill THE DIVINITY SCHOOL ,M ... A,VV,a,.V ,,?,., ,,'.' ,Y qlif 1 4. ,AVP-Q .,-A lf. A .y , .., , - t i f ,,...,. -.... ri The Divinity School is one of the graduate l i schools of the University, its entrance require- ,i ments being the same as those of the Grad- uate School of Arts, Literature, and Science. i It prepares its students not only for pastorate Ml and missionary work, but for teaching. At Hi the present time there are over one hundred llc and fifty of its former students teaching in about one hundred theological schools, and ' several teaching in colleges. There are in the 1, mission field hundreds of men and women who ig: have studied here, especially while on furlough. li The School believes in the harmony of re- DEAN Marnrws lg, ligion and science, when each is properly con- II, ceived. It has always been regarded as one of the leaders in the modernist move- Qal Inellt and as a champion of absolute freedom of teaching. lt Dean Shailer Mathews, A.M., D.D., L.L.D., studied at Colby College, Oberlin, all Brown University, Pennsylvania College and Miami University. He came to fi the University of Chicago in 1894. He was made dean of the Divinity School lli in IQO8. He is a professor of Historical and Comparative Theology and is Chair- man of the Department of Systematic Theology. lg, THE GRADUATE SCHOOL OE ARTS, li AND LITERATURE lgil This School conducts graduate work in nineteen departments of the Uni- l'll versity. These fall into two groups: CID The social service and Czj the linguistic ltfj and literary group. To the former belong the departments of Philosophy, Psy- gj, chology, Education, Political Economy,Political Science, History, Art, Sociology, lil Home Economics., and Comparative Religion, to the latter, the departments of lily Oriental Languages and Literatures, New Testament and Early Christian Lit- llll, erature, Comparative Philology, Greek, Latin, Romance, German, English, and QQ., General Literature. L73 One of the chief aims of the School has always been to train students in methods 1 of research, and there is a strong tendency at present on the part of the Commis- sion of Graduate Schools to increase still furtherthe emphasis on research. ln doing J l this the Commission has not lost sight of the fact that an important function of the l Graduate Schoolis to provide instructors for the colleges l 1 i U and universities of the country. lt is the opinion of the 9 l Commission that none but those trained in investiga- tion can render competent service in collegiate and university teaching. The Dean of the School is Gordon Laing. He is y a graduate of the University of Toronto CA.B.j and of John Hopkins University CPh.D.l. He came to the University first in 1899,and was a member of the 1 Latin Department until 1921 when he resigned to accept the position of Professor of Classics and Dean l 1 of the Faculty of Arts in Msoiii UmvefSity,1v1Omea1. 2 He was recalled to the University of Cnicago in 1923 and since that time has been Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Literature and Professor ' of Latin. Dean Laing is also the General Editor of DEAN Lame the University of Chicago Press. Page 27

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f ' re' P it rg ga g a ,mf at 73 ct.. ees ss s ' E1,. -.:E2., 1 I 'iefflffia A I THE UNIVERSITY C o L L E G E - . ,,,, .c M y ..Q'. -If-Q - . ,.,.. ,ff ' Dean Emery T. Pilbey, A.lVI., is an as- sociate professor of Industrial Education and Dean of the University College. He received his Ph.B. in Education at the University of Chicago in 1916 and his A.M. in 1920. He began teaching here in 1919, and was made Dean of the University College in 1923. When time and place become necessary factors in education, University College solves the problem. University College, the down- town department of the University of Chicago, serves during each quarter 2300 students who are enrolled in over Ioo courses given at con- DEAN FU-HEY venient hours-after school hours, 4:15-6:15, after business hours, 7:oo-9:oog and on Saturdays. Professors on the campus give work from almost all of the professional schools of the University and most of the undergraduate and graduate departments of Arts and Literature. The curriculum meets the needs of teachers, nurses, lawyers, social service workers, church workers, and even attracts the young dilittante who has a desire to continue association with the arts. Special features during 1925-26 include post graduate courses for electrical engineers, new courses in theology, conferences for elementary and secondary school principals, and courses which interpret our democratic institutions. THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC RELATIONS Mr. Henry Justin Smith came from the Chicago Daily News to the University, where he became Director of Public Relations, July Ist, 1924, having as his official title, Assistant to the President. He conceived the Publicity Department of the University as having the double purpose of interpreting the University to the public through the medium of the daily press, and of serving the University. He continued as Assistant to the President in charge of Y public relations until February, IQ26, when he was summoned back to theDaily News to act as managing editor. Mr. Smith received an AB. degree from the Uni- versity of Chicago in 1898, and in IQO2 became city editor of the Chicago Daily News, in which position he continued until 1913, when he was appointed news editor of the paper. At the close of the World VVar he covered the Peace Conference, having been put in charge of an important diplomatic post at the head of the Daily News Paris oflice. Mr. Smith is the author of several books and articles on journalism, among them being Josslyn , , a novel, Deadlines , a group of short stories about ' newspaper life, It's the Way It's NVritten , and HENRX'-IUSTIN SMITH ciTl16 Other Side Of the Wall.'7 Page 29