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

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Aaron J. Brumhaugh Robert Woellner Carl Huth ' Leon P. Smith Above the Bursaris office and also below it is Chicagds own publishing house, the Uni- versity Press, a publishing outlet for much of the research work done by members of the faculty. During the last two years it has published several new textbooks which add to the visual education library. In the fall of 1937 the University Press printed The Machinery of the Body by Carlson and Johnson and most recently Animals Without Bachbones, Ralph Buchs- baum's offering. iiA landmark in American Culture is what the New York Times called the Dictionary of American English on Historical Prin- ciples. Since 1925 Sir William Craigie, famed as co-editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and no professor emeritus of English here, has been making a scientific study in conjunction with the English Departmentis James R. Hulbert of American word usage up to 1900 for the purpose of exhibiting clearly the word meanings by which the English of the United States is distinguished from that spoken by the rest of the English world. The ninth part of Sir William's scholarly work will he pub- lishecl in May. In the hands of the Press now, is a monumental work, The Text of the Canterbury Tales, for which the authors have been delving into Englamfs fourteenth century records for six months at a time ever since 1926. Edith Rickert, who began the work, unfortunately died before it was quite completed, but the job was carried on by her chief col- laborator, John Manly, who has been with the English Depart- ment since 1898 and Who is now professor emeritus. Recent years have witnessed an international movement toward consideration of science as a whole. The International Encyclopedia of Unified Science now at press is concerned with the tying together of the logic, the The College and the Divisions of the University Willi am Hay Taliaferro . Dean of the Division of the Biological Sciences Richard Peter MeKeon . . . . Dean of the Division of H umcmities Henry Gordon Gale . . Dean of the Division of the Physical Sciences Robert Redheld . . . . Dean of the Division of the Social Sciences Aaron John Brumbaugh . . . . . . . . . Dean of the College Arthur Charles Bachmeyer . Associate Dean. of the Biological Sciences John Dale Russell . . . Associate Dean and Dean of Students in the Division of the Social Sciences Basil Coleman Hyatt Harvey . . . Dean of Students in the Division of the Biological Sciences Leon Perdue Smith . . . . . . . Dean of Students in the College Clarence H. Faust . Dean of Students in the Division of the Humanities gmw

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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

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history, and the sociology of all sci- ence. Plans for the introductory unit of two volumes under the title of Foundations of the Unity of Science have been completed, and among the monographs already in print are those by Charles William Morris, Associate Professor of Philosophy; Rudolph Carnap, Professor of Phi- losophy; and Leonard Bloomfield, Professor of Germanic Philology. Arthur Bachmeyer . The admlmstrauon has continued in its traditional attitude of liitle regulation of stuclent life and free- dom in choice of courses. Any or- ganized group of ten members, more- over, can he recognized as a Univer- Sily activity, provided it represents decent principles. More cooperation has been evidenced of late between the administration and the students. The press relations office has actively aided extra-curricular organizations. Specific aid has been given especially to the student Publicity Board as a step in the new official campaign to sion of a stilted undergraduate body correct the erroneous public impres- Henry Gordon Gale at Chicago. Merle Crowe Coullcr, John R. Davey, Martin J. Freeman, Robert E. Keohane, William C. Krumhein, Adeline De Sale Link, Mirna Maxcy, F. Joseph Mullin, William Edlefsen Scott. Zens Lawrence Smith, Harold A. Swenaen, Salomon Trevino, Leslie C. Warren . . . Advasors in the College Carl Frederick Huth . . . . . . . . . Dean of the University William Homer Spencer . . . . . Dean of the School of Business Ernest Cadman Colwell . . . . . . Dean of the Divinity School Louis Bound Wilson . . . . Dean of the Graduate Library School Wilher G. Katz . . . . . Dean of the Law School Wilher E. Post . . . . . Dean of the Graduate School of Medicine Edith Abbott . . Dean of the School of Soda! Service Administration McKcndree Llewellyn Haney . . Director of the University Libraries Otto Struvc . . . . . . . . Director of the Yerkes Observatory John Albert Wilson . . . . . . Director of the Oriental Institute Arthur Charles Bachmeyer . . . Director of the University Clinics ene Basil Harvey John D. Russell Clarence Faust Charles W. Gilkey