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

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Harold Swift La ird Bell John Moulds APPOINTIVE OFFICERS Lloyd R. Steere, Treasurer Harvey C. Daines, Comptroller John F. Moulds, Secretary Lyndon H. Lesch, AssistantSecretary, Assistant Treasurer William J. Mather, Assistant Secretary Hortense Friedman, Assistant Treasurer Arthur Lincicome. Assistant Comptroller WP William Bond HONORARY TRUSTEES Thomas E. Donnelley Charles R. Holden Charles E. Hughes Samuel C. Jennings Frank H. Lindsay TRUSTEES Ha told H. Swift,Cha irnwn William Scott Bond, Firs! Vice-Chairman Laird Bell, Second Vice-Chairman Trevor Arnett Sewell L. Avery Charles F. Axelson Harrison B. Barnard W. McCormick Blair James H. Douglas, Jr. Cyrus 5. Eaton Max Epstein Marshall Field Harry B. Gear Charles B. Goadspeed Arthur B. Hall Paul G. Honan Robert M. Hutchins Albert D. Lasker Frank McNair John Nuveen, Jr. Ernest E. Quantrell Clarence B. Randall Lessing J. Rosanwald Paul 5. Russell Edward L. Ryerson, Jr. Albert R. Scott Robert L. Scott Albert W. Sharer James M. Stifter 1 ohn Stua rt John P. Wilson Herbert P. Zimmermann huh. What the Trustees have always kept a liberal but constrained administration policy; became the talk of the country last December, when the Board dropped inter- collegiate football. For the most part opinion is now resigned, not merely because nothing immediate Can he clone to restore the sport but because a light of reason can be seen behind the move. President Hutchins ex- plained the position taken by the administra- tion in his speech before the student body in January. WI'he question is one of emphasis. I do not say that a university must be all study and no athletic and social life. I say that a university must emphasize etiucation and not athletics and social life? Maintaining a distinguished faculty has been one of the foremost aims of the University administrators since the days of the Universitfs first William Harper. In times of depression the adminis- trationgs policy has been to leave gaps as they occur rather than lower salaries-and consequently the worth of the entire staE. president, To encourage merit in teaching an alumnus several years ago established a fund to provide awards of one thousand dollars for professors excellent in under- graduate teaching. In June, 1939, the winners were Ralph Buchahaum, Instructor in Zo- ology in the College; Clarence Faust, Associ- ate Professor of English and Dean of Students in the Humanities; and William C. Krum- bein, Assistant Professor of Geology and Ad- viser in the College. Not only in depression is finance a University problem. With the lower interest rates on investments all uni- versities are faced with the need of increased endowments. President Hutchina explained in a recent Saturday Evening Post article his plan of an inverse approach to the alumni for endowments. Instead of collecting large amounts from a few people, in the future

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Hutchins confers with artist-alumnus Baldridge returning for a week oi under- grad life in order to get material for his alumni money-seducer pamphlet. The intervening years have not diminished the emotions which I felt on coming to Chicago. I now have a fuller awareness of the Universityhs dis- tinction and of its possibilities. My pride and awe have multiplied. The University will certainly survive. It will certainly remain great. It will become greater still. The reason it will is that the students who have been here and the community it serves recognize what it haa mcant and can mean in the lives of our people. Robert Maynard Hutchim'. Top left: Hutchins, back to work with Bermuda tan, holds court at Ida Noyes for incoming Freshmen. Bottom left: Hutchins dispenses Chesterfield and St. Johns, propaganda at his mirror-clealn desk. Rights Prexy mingles with the hoi poloi fora brief moment upon leaving his office in Harper.

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a large percentage of all the alumni will be asked individually to contribute smaller amounts. Along with the new endowment pian President Hutchins is advocating Hnancial cooperation among large universities. President Hutchina feels that in view of increasing power of the many state universities, private schools must collaborate. Overlapping and waste of facilities can there- by be avoided. The joint project of the University of Chicago and the University of Texas is McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains of Texas. This was dedicated in May, 1939, and has already ohtained scientific results of great promise for the future. The property belongs to the University of Texas and is stalled by us, thus saving both universities a million dollars, which neither of them had. Increase in tuition, emactive at the beginning of the year, was greeted with not too much grace hy the students. Students may still skip through the University at a fast pace hut only by paying extra for each course over three, taken for credit 01' not. The sound movie method of teaching is original with the University of Chicago. So far the University press has distributed thirty-two films produced by Erpi Class- room Films Company. They have been scientifically supervised by professors directly concerned. They were developed to par- allel the New Plan textbooks in the fields of Astronomy, Physics, Chemistry, Geology, and Biology :15 presented in the survey courses. Visual education is an old idea but its use in sound motion pictures represents an unlimited contribution to our teaching profession. Schools all over the country are using the system as a result. Officers of Administration Robert Maynard Hutchins . . . . . . President of the University Emery T. Filbey . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vice-Presidem William Benton . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Vice-Presidem Charles Whitney Gilkey . . . . . . . . . Dean of the Chapel William B. Harrell . . . . . . . . . . . . Business M anager William John Mather Bursar Ernest C. Miller . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Registrar William V. Morganstern . . . . . . . Director of Press Relations James Madison Stiflcr . . . . . . . Secretary of the University Valerie C. Wickhem . . . . . . . . . Director of Admissions Robert Carlton Woellner . . . . . Executive Secretary, Board of Vocational Guidance and P lace men: George Alan Works . . . Dean of Students and University Examiner e15H William Ben lon Emery T. Filhey :39 James H. Stifler George A. Works