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

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I BOARD OF TRUSTEES . .h 1.11;, '1 Hi N1 M'Wml OFFICERS ' m ml .11 HAROLD H. SWIFT .................................. President 'Ziiinhgh . . l . WILLIAM SCOTT BOND ..................... 1. zrst Vzw-Prcszdenl Hui '5th .1 . r' - W1 LAIRD BELL ............................. S ccond Iwe-Pwszdenl hr 111,. JOHN F. MOULDS ................................... Scnrtmy xx ELM INCH '1153'4 .md '- w d. Lind Harold Swzft Ah Elk h t1 - . .4 gm. TRUSTEES MARSHALL FIELD CLARENCE B. RANDALL JiHllHd. TREVOR ARNETT HARRY B. GEAR LESSING J. ROSENWALD SEWELL L. AVERY CHARLES B. GOODSPEED PAUL S. RUSSELL CHARLES F. AXELSON ARTHUR B HALL EDWARD L. RYERSON, JR. HARRISON B. BARNARD ALBERT L. SCOTT PAUL G. HOFFMAN LAIRD BELL ROBERT L. SCOTT ROBERT M. HUTCHINS W. MCCORMICK BLAIR Y ALBERT W. SHERER ALBERT D. LASKER W ILLIAM SCOTT BOND ' JAMES M. STIFLER JAMES H. DOUGLAS, JR. FRANK MCNAIR JOHN STUART CYRUS S. EATON DR. VVILBER E. POST HAROLD H. SWIFT MAX EPSTEIN ERNEST E. QUANTRELL JOHN P. WILSON HERBERT P. ZIMMERMAN HONORARY TRUSTEES THOMAS E. DONNELLEY CHARLES R. HOLDEN CHARLES E. HUGHES SAMUEL C. JENNINGS John Moulds FRANK H. LINDSAY

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- ' thmrma..aqnguj,g;.i.p,uu..ims' :v ADMINISTRATIVE YEAR hThe University 01' Chicago breathes the hseest air upon this continent. Its students and pro- fessors are free to say what they want about whom they want, subject only to the laws of the land and their own consciences. The tradi- tion of free debate began with the beginning of the University. It has often been attacked. It has never fallen? Thus spoke President Hutchins recently to the Alumni. The past year has seen this spirit of freedom continued and the aca- demic stature of the University raised even lngher. The Walgreen Foundation made possible sev- eral Visiting professorships, outstanding among whom were Dr. Eduard Benes, formerly Presi- dent of the Czechoslovak Republic, and one- time Professor of Sociology at Charles University Of Prague. Dr. Benes arrived in February to begin a lecture series on democracy and totalitar- ianism in Europe. Spring Quarter Dr. Lindsay Rogers came as Visiting Professor from Columbia University where he was Professor of Public Law. Under the same auspices Mr. Walter Lippman, noted emmnentator on American Affairs, gave four lectures during the Winter Quarter entitled hThe Present Outlook. The eminent contemporary English phil- osopher, Lord Bertrand Russell, Ifurther honored the University with a series of lectures on the various aspects of power. Mr. Archibald Mac- Leish, renowned as 1932 Pulitzer Prize winner and well known as a lecturer here, under the William Vaughn Moody Foundation, spoke on TiPoetry and the Contemporary Crises? From the University of London, came the prmninent Richard Tawney as Visiting Professor of ECO- nomic History. Joining the Law School faculty Friedrich Kessler came from Yale University and George Francis James from the legal staff of the United States Treasury Department. Walter H. C. Laves became Associate Professor of Political Science and Head of the Social Science Survey in the College. Neil H. Jacoby is now Assistant Pro- fessor of Finance. Nobel. Prize winner in Physics, Dr. James Fraud, was instated as Pro- fessor of Physical Chemistry. The 1938 edition of: TtAmerican Men of Sci- ence'i recognizes faculty by the twelve additional starred rankings given them, second in total number only to Harvard. Two of the more practical faculty members joined the political ranks, T. V. Smith as United States Congressman-at-large from Illinois, and James Weber Linn. as representative to the Illinois State Legislature. Throughout the school year, progress has been the keynote. In a time when the printed and spoken word is being everywhere suppressed, and battles are being fought over ideas, searchers for the truth have found in the University of Chi- cago a haven where peace and freedom abound. Tu W MNRXg Douglas. Benr's. Russell. Linn. BU ; ?Q4W'nyuuuzk, 't.m...t. HW'H'I M I I N IHRII IL MD 1' V IRIUILji mmil tnw l s HXRRW hm: lie W. KM Wu 1 1 u hm st tlw w Xlxxt

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; 3 3 a l 3 , 4 mug. am; John Nuvccn Forty-six years ago the first class was graduated from the new University of Chicago. Seareely had the class been graduated when the members felt that they should organize an alumni asso- ciation to maintain some helpful contact with their Alma Mater and with each other. The first decade of the University's history, consequently, witnessed an organized Alumni Association, steadily increasing in numbers and growing in strength and activity. The second decade saw the establishment of an Alumni Magazine to carry to its readers the news of the University and its alumni, and to create a forum for diseussi0n and suggestions on University affairs. The Magazine has advanced steadily and now, in its thirty-first year, has more than ten thousand readers. In form and content it is regarded as one of the leading alumni pub- lications in the country. The Alumni Association was reorganized in the third decade to conform m0re successfully with the desires and interests of the varied groups of Chicago graduates. As a result there are today nine Alumni Associations, which combine to form the Alumni Council of the University. Clmrleton Beck The Alumni Council is the central body, repre- senting all alumni, and supervising or conduct- ing all alumni activities of general import. During the same period the Alumni Council sponsored a movement to endow its work. With inspired leadership and generous cooperation a fund of: nearly $100,000 was raised during 1919 and 1920, a sum that has been increased by life memberships taken out during the past twenty years, until it now approaches $150,000. The most outstanding alumni activity of the l0urth decade was the raising of approximately $2,000,000 to add to the endowment of the Uni- versity, the income to be used for faculty salaries. This campaign was the greatest evidence of alumni loyalty ever demonstrated by the sons and daughters of Chicago. Nearly 12,000 alumni were contributors to the cause. As the years pass it is Clear that the alumni are playing a larger and more helpful part in the advancement of the University. In this serv- ice, firmly grounded on the intelligent appre- ciation and loyalty, all alumni are most heartily urged to take a part. -20e ?mmwerW-m;xww nuanau ....t...L.5..,..g.i...,;.uv:w i l :