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

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WILLIAM E. SCOTT For exceptionally flue work as a Dean in the Junior Colleges, .for constructive interest. and participation in undergraduate activities, and for the friendly and impartial attitude that has made contact with him a pleas- ant experience for so many students. THORNTON WILDER For bringing to .his classes a teaching technique designed to develop individuality among his students, and for assuming in the short space of two quarters such an important place. as a friend of the undergraduates. Fag: 2!

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JOHN MATTHEWS MANLY LEONARD E DICKSDN DISTINGUISHED SERVICE PROFESSORS The University conferred additional honors on seven, veteran, outstanding faculty men in the establishment of a group of Distinguished Service Professor- ships, each carrying a salary of at least ten thousand dollars. Six of them bear the names of the donors who contributed funds sufficient for their endowment as follows: Martin Ae Ryerson, Frank P Dixon, Charles H. Swift, Sewell L. Avery, Charles F. Grey, and Morton D. Hull. A seventh is named in honor of Eliakam Hastings Moore1 for many years head of the Duzpartment of Mathematics. The men chosen all represent the finest type of educators, being brilliant research workers of international fame, and having been respected for years as outstanding teachers. James Henry Breasted has served in the Department of Oriental Languages and Literature since 1894 and as its chairman since 1915. During that period he assumed a position of unchallenged leadership in his field through his direction of the Haskell Museum and the numerous field expeditions 0f the Oriental In- stitute. - Carl Darling Buck, the Head of the Department of Comparative Philology, General Linguistics and Indo-Iranian Philology, was a member of the original faculty of the University and is an authority on Greek and Latin dialects. Anton J. Carlson as chairman of the Department of Physiology has become a genial adviser and gruff taskmaster to medical students and the outstanding flgure in the biological group. Leonard E. Dickson, twenty-one years a Professor of Mathematics, commands world-wicle recognition among mathematicians because of his thorough, original development of a theory of numbers and number forms. Charles Hubbard Judd has done authoritative work in the field of educational psychology, and is especially prominent for his work in the development of the School of Education, as its Director. John Matthews Manly, Head of the Department of English since 1898, is known as a scholar for discovery of the composite authorship of Pier: the Plowman, for careful documentation of the Canterbury Taier, and for the development of intelligent, scientific methods of graduate study. Charles E. Merriam as chairman of the Department of Political Science has directed productive research on political processes, and has made significant studies of political theory and eiections. Page 23