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

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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

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J. HARLAN BRETZ MERLE C. Courts; UNDERGRADUATE INSTRUCTION The University of the past was known for its lack of interest in undergraduate instruction and instructors. In contradiction to this attitude came a distinct counter-movement toward administrative recognition of excellence in under- graduate teaching which was climaxed by Vice-President Woodwardis announce- ment of Five Specific awards to outstanding individuals. To teachers Bretz, Coulter, Hutchinson, Joranson, and Kerwin went raises in salaries from a fund established for that purpose by an anonymous alumnus. J. Harlan Bretz, Professor of Geology, is probably the major explanation for the popularity of things geological among undergraduates. Geologist Bretz is the lion of his department, the terror of timid co-eds and shrinking athletes who enjoy his shocking naivete and feel the lash of his vitrolic tongue. He employs the Soeratic method of instruction, asks simple questions so cleverly that amused students can only respond with halting gulps. In his lighter moments he makes such outlandish statements as, WI'he world was created in 19142 then with a coy smile demands any proof to the contrary. J. Harlan is at his best in the field. Then, attired in Stetson hat, rough clothes, and high boots, he leads his students a wild chase over rugged Archean and Paleozoic formations. Then, the biggest bug in the geological puddle, he decries the Geography department, quotes from the Bible, smokes many pipes of Edgeworth, and sees that his class takes a dip in the cold lake early every morning. Merle C. Coultcr, Associate Professor of Botany, is known to Freshmen in the Survey course as one of the most interesting of the numerous lecturers they en- counter. A good share of the entering class recognize him as a competent Dean in the junior Colleges who counsels pre-medical students with a rare understanding of the problems they are sure to encounter. An authority on plant genetics, Professor Coulter gives twice each year his popular course in Heredity, Evolution, and Eugenics. On the lecture platform he speaks clearly and slowly, reviews his important points carefully, so that students have little difiiculty in under- standing them. Page 24