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

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NEW' ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICERS XVOODXX ARD Sreviixs STEERE Frederic C. Wioodward, Vice-President and Dean of Faculties, was a Professor of Law in the University of Chicago when he took over his present duties in April, 1926. He came to the University in 1916 from Leland Stanford Junior University, where he had served as Dean of the Law School for several years. David H. Stevens, Assistant to the President, was a Professor of English before beginning his present work in October, 1926. He received his degree of Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Chicago and has been on the teaching staff since 1912. Lloyd R, Steere, Vice-President and Business Manager, entered the service of the University of Chicago in his present office in Mayf, 1926. He is a graduate of Harvard College and took his legal course in the Harvard Law School. His ex- perience in banking and as an officer of the Dering Estates afforded the background for his present responsible position. Page I9

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PRESIDENT MASON lt is but three years since the University of Chicago, inspired by the vision and courage of President Burton, initiated a program of development. All groups of the University family joined in the effort with energy and unity. Today we are happy in the ground we have already gained, and determined that a program of development shall continue as long as the University endures. Our program is not for expansion of activity, but for continually increased perfection of performance. The physical equipment of the University is being rapidly improved as our new buildings are being completed. Next year will soon see work commenced on new buildings for botany, chemistry, mathematics, and the social sciences. Of far greater importance is the stimulation and improvement in the Univer- sity's work made possible by the increased endowment. The keynote of our University is scholarship with a purpose. It is my abmition to see the undergraduates full partners in this enterprise. I believe that we can evolve, by common effort, a distinctive undergraduate college at Chicago,-a college of opportunity, in which American youth, while enjoying those valuable and picturesque activities which lend color to American college life, may find romance and adventure that lie in the independent effort in the life of the intellect. .Max Illafo 71, Pug: 18

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THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES During the year 1926 the Boa-rd of Trustees secured the amendment of the Articles of In- corporation of the University increasing the number of Trustees from twenty-five to thirty. This increase was required in order to distribute more widely the multiplying duties which de- volve upon the Trustees and by the desire to strengthen the University's hold upon the in- telligence and worth of the community in which it is placed. The following persons constitute the Board of Trustees, grouped into three classes: Term expires 1927-Trevor Arnett, William Scott Bond, Spencer Dickerson, Charles W. Gilkey, Howard G. Grey, Charles R. Holden, Robert P. Lamont, Frank McNair, John Stuart. Term expires 1928-Sewell L. Avery, Har- rison B. Bernard, Eli B. Felsenthal, Samuel C. Jenningswxirank H. Lindsay, Harold F. McCormick, ax Mason, Julius Rosenwald Martin A. Ryerson, Harold H. Swift. 7 Term expires IQZQ-Cl13flCS F. Axelson, Thomas E. Donnelly, Charles E. Hughes, Harry B. Gear, Wilber E. Post, Edward L. Ryerson Jr., Robert L. Scott, Albert WV. Sherer, Deloss C. Shull, F.ugene M. Stevens. Two members of the Board have served from the beginning: Mr. Eli B. Felsen- thal and Mr. Martin A. Ryerson. The latter was elected president of the Board in 1892 and most successfully presided over its deliberations and guided its policies until I922. Gf the sixty-eight trustees who have been members of the Board since 1890, besides the two already mentioned,seven have served for I5 years or more. The Board of Trustees is a practically continuous, co-operating and harmoni- ous group. Familiarity with the affairs of the University obtained through years of intimate relationship to its administration counts for consistency of policy and procedure. Standing committees bring members into co-operation with the affairs of the University, although in strictly educational matters the Trustees have not attempted to interfere. The President of the University shall be the head of all educational departments, say the by-laws. There have been among the trustees no cliques, no disagreements. Negative votes are seldom heard. The officers of the Board are the following: Harold H. Swift, President, Howard G. Grey, First Vice-President, Thomas E. Donnelly, Second Vice-President, Robert L. Scott, Third Vice-President, John F. Moulds, Secretary of the Board, I. Spencer Dickerson, Corresponding Secretary, Rowland Haynes, Secretary of the University, Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed, Historian, Lloyd R. Steere, Vice-President and Business Manager, George O. Fairweather, Assistant Business Manager, Nathan C. Plimpton, Auditor, William B. Harrell, Assistant Auditor. T SWIFT Page 20