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

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The Physical Sciences The lIIVIl-i'lull III the Physical S iIInI'IIs consists of eight III-parlIIIIIntI-I. wilII a faculty of IIiglllI-six members. During the year IIIIII III the musl important IIIII-'IIIIIpInIIntI-i in lliII Division has been llIII. progress in plans for IIIIIIpIIraliIIg willi IIII: L'nivIIrsilI III 'IIIxas' Ill IIIII IIrIII'liIIII III an astro- nomical IihservalIIrI. IIIII site has been seleIIlIIIi al MIIIIIII LIII'LII, 'liI-xaI-IR and We building itself has IIIIIIII IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII. 'I1I10 IIpIiIral anII IIIIIIIIIaniI-al parls nl' lI1II. lIIIIII-II-IIpe arII. howIIer. in IIII- me-IIss III' IIIIIIsII-IIIIliIm. 'I'liII lIIiIIIIipal instrumenl '. rIIIIIIIling IPICSPUIH: II'IgIIII inIIIeH in diameter lhII IIiI-II of IIIII'III l5 alrIIaIII cast al the Corning LIaI-II-I Works. IIIII I'cnIIraI plan fur the work of II1II IIIII-IIIrvalIIrI I- uulIImpIaies lllal llIII. UniversilI of lIIxIII-i will pm for IIIII. IIuilIlinIr lrIIm a fund given In il fm- aslronmniral work: and llle Lni- VIIrsitI III CIIiIIaIIII will suppII IIIII. qIIiIIIHiiiI'. 5133.111? IIIIIISI'IIpII IIiII prIIIIaIIII III: rcaIII Jur llhe ahuul .IamIarIl , 191.50 Research in llUliI IIIIIsiIts and chemistry has III-I-II sliIIIIIIaII-II III a rI-Irenl IIiIIIIIII'III-I' 01' new units in IIIaHIIr. ValuahII- Work is aIrIIaIII under way in IJOlIl IIIIparLIIIIIuls which is hoped will IIIIIII I0 impnrlanl IIIJIIIIlusiIms as In line lrIII- naIIIrI- III' mallIIr. II special gift will maI-III pIIssiIIlII II'llf l'UHHIrlIl'lItlll III' II very. largI- I'IIII'lrII-magnel WIIII'II will he llSl'lI iII'IiiaIII in the slIIIII III' PUSIIIIU rays. This IIIar Professor Allison and ZaIIhariaIIIIn III the IJIiI .IIiI'I-I IIIIparlIIIIIIII IIaVI' III-IIII appoinlIIIl III IIIII CIIIILIIIIIIII-im I'PIIOWEIIIIJ fur sLuIII in I'IIrIIpI.I'rI1IIII-Isnr I'.I' Larl III' IIII Division has IIIIIIII absent during,r IIIII Icar working I'Iar Illc InslilnlII IIIr .IIlIaIIIIIIII SIIIIII which is aIIilialInl IIiIII PriIIItIIIIm UniVIIrI-IilI IIIiIII-r llIII IlireIIlimI of Ur. Abraham II'IIImer. Professor Barrowis time is divided IIIIlwIIIIII his L'IZIIVIEI'BIII work and his II'IJI'L aI Washinglun III-I II IHCHIIH'T III' the Water Planning.I Committee of IIIII, Nalional IIIII-IIIIIrI'III-I IIIJarII. l I Dean H. U. Gale I Ivan II. IIIIIII'IIIIII The Social Sciences 'I'IIII Division 01' SIWIaI SFiCIN'PH I'unll'ibulIIII an interesting new feature In their IIII-IIIIIII III' IIIIIII'a- lion IIIIS :I'I'JH'. rI'lIII HCINHJI IIIrm IlaH III-IIII Ili iIIIIII into six works of iIIsIrIIIIIinu. l'nur II'I-IILII of reading and rIIIIIIIIliIm. tluring wlIiII .II no I'IaI-II-II'H are held, antl two WIII'LH UI' IIisI'IIsa-Iiml. 'I'III' pIIriIIII llr reading and rIIIIIII' tiIiII lIt'HI'lllt'tI lII I-IIIIIIIII IIIII :illltltflll I0 IInIargII IIiI-I IIIIIII III :IlIIIII and I0 Illlrslli' hir- IIII'II Iille'lfF-IIF. 'I'IIII Drpartlnonl III SIIIIiOIIIgII, III IIJII limI' or its urgariizulion al lIIII L'IIiI'IIrIIilI IIIIgaII HIJI'I'IEIII- zation in lIIII HlIIIII III IIII- I-itI Inn! in raw Iears lIII SIIIIIIII III' lIII- IlIIpurlIII II has iIIIIIII IIrIIalII WithI'IIEII 10 include lIIII IIIm'II IIIIIIraI sluIII Hr racial Ilrtlhlfllnh. I'liII mixturI-Is III' the IIiI'IIrI-II: racial groups have IIIIIIII put up for I lose atIaIIsis and as a resull IIIII IJrIIIIIIIms. IIF IIIII marginal mans, IIavI- IIIIIIIIIJIII the interval of over; man in line Dcparlmulll. 'I'n augmlml Iliis IIIIIIII manI ol' IIIII professors during the pas! I'IIII' .IIBaI'I-i have carried 0n racial studies in foreign countries. 'I'Ill: Division is also I-oulinuing its work with tile government: Professor DIIIIII. ol' the DIIparl- mum of IIislIIrI is now IIIII ambassador to IJIIrIIIaIII': Charles A. VIIIrriam is with IIII- xalional Resources IIIIarII: Mr. IIIIrrIIII'II UI' IIIII Geography DII Iartmonl is II-IIrLiIIII with the Mississippi Valv-I CIIIIIIIIissiInI: I'II-II. Millis. III' IIIII ICI-IIIIIImiI'I-I DIIpIIrlmIInl i9. wilh lIIII National Industrial III-I-IIVIIrI' Hoard. Ulhcr mIImIII-rs 0f the Division IIaIIII l'rIIquenllI' IIIIIIII I'aIIIIII 'mln IIIIIII-IullaliIm. During lIII- past IIIIIr Hr. RPII' liIIIII, Deal! III IIIII I'Iivision. IIaFI ln't'i'l in Yucatan I'IIIllinuinI.r IIiI-I slIIIII' IIl' aI'IIIIIturatinn. Mr. Andrew MI'IiaughIin has I-IIIIIIIIIIIIIII IIIH II'IIrL I-IIIIIIII Consliluliunal IlislIIr-I III' IIII- l'IIilI-II StalI-s . Among our visiting.- FIEIIT IIII IlEH'P IIIIII Richard I'. WIIKIIIIII of Columbia l.i11iI'I-rsilI 35 a profIIssur Ul' IIisIIIrI. 'I'Ilf SIII'ile SI'iIIIiIIII research department, III1IiIIr IJIIIIII SIIIsinIIIIr. has been carrI inlr on an at live program III rIIsIIarI' 'II III ail aIIspIII- III of the Social SIIiI-IIIIIIII. Wager :1

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Dean I . R. Lillie The Biological Scien ces The Biological Science Division which com- prises the departments of anatomy, botany, home economics, hygiene and bacteriology, medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pathology, pediatricsq physiological chemistry and pharmacology, phys- iology, psychology. surgery, and zoology was made a separate administrative unit in l930. The original biological departments of the University were established in 1892 without any special reference to medicine, but einCe that time a vast system of medical education has evolved. The University has taken in Rush Medical Col- lege and maintains it as an independent school; and the University Medical School on campus has developed and advanced, giving much human- itarian and paid medical service through its Hos itals and Clinics. he tleparlment as a whole has achieved a great deal and has made many notable con- tributions t0 the advancement of its work, its graduates occupying many important positions in principal American Universities. Not only has this Division remained in close unity with the College and other Divisions, but it has also made many valuable connections in Chicago and elsewhere. Thus the separateness 0f the Division has been purely administrative as it is in reality a living organ of theUniversity. The greatest change in the department this year is the retirement of Dean Frank R. Lillie. He has served the University Since 1900, and since 1932 he has very eapably headed the newly organized Division. llis place will be filled by Wm. ll. Taliaferro, who has been an associate clean for the past four years. The other important change in the department heads was caused by the resignation of Dr. H. S. Iloughton. the director of the University Clinics and Associate Dean. This vacancy will he lilled by A. C. Bachmeyer. Dean of the University of Cincinnati Medical School and director of the Cincinnati Gen. llosp. Page 20 The Humanities rllhe Division of the Humanities embraces the departments of language and literature, art, philosophy, comparative religion, music, aml history. In addition to the departments there are two grout committees in literature and the history of en ture, which supervise interdepart- mental programs of study. The old group committee on language has been absorbed hi the recenlly organized department of linguistics. The Division has a faculty of one hundred and twenty-eight members, and the number 0f stu- dents registered during the Winter Quarter. 1935, was five hundred and sixty-eight. The entrance re uirements ol' the Division are the College eertilieate or its equivalenl and such knowledge of. two languages as is normally attained by two years of study in each at the high-schtml level. After entering the Division at student may become a candidate for lhe Masterls degree without taking a Baehelorls, or a candidate for the Doctors degree without. taking either the llaehelorls or the Masteris degree. A revision has recently been made in the program of work for the Masterls degree. The principal ehange in lhe re uirements has been to make possible a divisiona Masterls degree for students wishing to prepare to teach in secondarlx schools, in addition to the more highly specialized degree where the work is concentrated in one department. Candidates under this program may work in two 01' more departments of the Division, but at least half their work must be in one principal subject. No dissertation is required of students under this plan. The Division has a large research program and one Of its important bodies is the Committee on Research in the Humanities, which is chiefly concerned with the projects carried on lhrough subsidies furnished by the Rockefeller Founda- tion and the American Council of Learned Societies. Dean G. J. Laing

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Ih-un C. S. Bmlclmr This year Chaum-ey S. Ihntchcr has gra- ciously agreed to write for us a concise statement on The Chicago Crrutage Plan. The staff of the Cap and Gown l'ccls that more articles of this type, which tionvey the impressions of the men most prominent in their own field. are of more particular interest to the student body, and it is l'ur that reason that we are exum-dingh grateful to Mr. Boucher for Ins vontrilmliun. WJMT. The aliprnpriatt- time seems to have arrived to cease calling our College program The New College Plan? and to refer to it henceforth as Tim Chicago CnNcgw Plan. tln- title of my report 0n the plan in Operation to the date of publica- tion by the University of Chicago Press Iaait February. This seems appropriate also in light of the tart lllal simrth after this issue of the Cap and Gown comes from the press, a large proportion nl' the Hrst vlass to enter as Fresh- men under the New Plan will be awarded their llachulors' degrees. 'llln- nu; most distinctive l'calnrcs of our College Platt-lhu attempt to make it possible for tlw student to attain a respectable minimum DEMONSTRATION Men have afwoys been necessarily interested tn Physiology since it is o subiect most vital to us all. Its importance is more emphatically proved to us through the elaborate demonstration by able technicians in the Biological Science General Course for College students. Page 32 The College Of general otlm'alion within a rvasonalllv length of timr. and the inauguration of a now plan ul measuring tlu- cduuatiunal progress of the stu- dent in terms of genuine. allaimnents rather than in terms all limu-Scrving and routine. lm-k-stcp requircmcnlshhaw: proved successful CV11 bc- tond our l'omlost hopes. This degree of success has hem tlllt: tn the imagination, cmirage and aniumls labors 0f the Faculh aml tn the luitlll'ul and wlmlu-lmarlml vo-opcralion of the great nlajoritlx 0f mtr students. Faculty and students alike have had an vxhilaraling experience and have ilcrivcd great satisfaction from genuine aml signilit'ant attainments. During the first tear. wlnrn llll', plan was new aml strange to both l'iacull-t and students, a certain amount of confusion was to lac expertcd. Though we expected In he confronted with problems that indicated the necessity of changes in our program, these problems and the accom- panying ncm-saary changes proved less numerous and less serious than main of us anticipated they might ho. Though we shall never cease to regard uur College program as an experiment. necessitating continuous careful study and never- ceasing efforts at improvement, our experience through lt'tllr tears. seems to thw fairI-x van. clusiveiy that the basic principles of the plan are sound and have resulted in a marked improve- ment 0f the educational process at college level. Years hence. when the history of American college education is written for a succeeding generation, the members 01' the first rlass to graduate under the Chicago College Plan will he presented in the roles of courageous, intelligent, and purposeful pioneers quite as much as will the nmmlwrs of our Faculty. 6.55M. H Fin ernl 'FM !1 i '- l 19 i17irsm 1 41,-: HM - Wm 1 1. le