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

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MING THE PIHIMINENT FACULTY MEMBERS Edith Abbott Below: Compton at the physics conference; Bur- gessinhis office: Across: Carlson in Bi Sci, dem- onstrating an experi- menl. Most students will remember him,ahsorbed in his work, his glasses pushedhack. Heprefers to do it himself rather than leave it to assistants. whom the University lost over the summer are Grace Abbott, James Weber Linn, and Algernon Coleman of the French Department. Not long before her death Miss Abbott was selected by a national poll as one of the natimfs outstand- ing women. Her renown is based on the life- time she devoted to the cause of underprivi- leged children. Officially at the University she was Professor of Public Welfare Administration in the school of Social Service. There are few alumni since 1900 or students today who did not know Teddy Linn and love him as part of their Alma Mater. Al- though not ranked high academically in the English Department, Teddy always attracted many students to his classes by his jovial per- sonality and unlimited information on Univer- sity lore. In keeping with his flair for writing, Mr. Linn constantly tilled the local editorial pages and published numerous books, best known of which are Wind Over the Campus and Jane AddamseA Biography. He was a par- ticularly appropriate biographer of Miss Ad- dams, as he was her favorite nephew. In No- vemher, 1938, Mr. Linn was elected Democratic assemblyman to the State Legislature; no can- didate ever had more spirited hacking than that which the local Alpha Delta Phi Chapter gave their favorite alumnus. Ernest W. Burgess has come to public notice as author of an article on mar- riage in a recent Ladies Home Journal. A soci- ologist of long standing in the University, Mr. Burgess has attempted to make of suciologyr a science. For the pas! few years he has been

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James Weller Linn, Arthur Holly Compton, Anton Garlson, Mamie Slye Ernest Burgess, Charles Merriam observing the results of a thousand marriages which he has on record as having advised during engagement. 0n the basis of these he is able to predict marriage success or failure with almost the same degree of a certainty as an insurance company evaluates a risk. The tests he used in connection with the maga- zine article enable a couple to compare their own standards of eongeniality with those of tested science. During the past months Mr. Burgess has been conducting a series of public lectures on marriage downtown. Best known as the winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1927, Arthur Holly Compton reveals a varied personality to local campusites. He not only instructs a weekly Sunday school in Baptist virtues and occasionally entertains the Chapel Unionists. hut in his spare time is an excellent glass- hlower, a fine tennis-rman, and a better than middling performer on the mandolin. Unrivalled in the field of atOmic physics, Dr. Compton is an international axis for cosmic ray investiga- tion. This summer he organized at the University a symposium to which leading scientists came from the world OVer. Pride of the Physiology Department is Anton Carlson, who gives all freshmen an excellent reason for liking the Biological Sciences Survey. He is knowu popu- larly as the sponsor of the Communist Club, although he makes no pretenses about voting the Republican ticket. Dr. Carlson has made himself what he is in America, having risen from a steerage immigrant to his present position of distinction as a scientist. From his native Sweden he still retains a definite accent, which together with his inimitable method of experie menting on himself provide his classes with constant amuse- ment. Through his research he has made important discoveries regarding the heartbeat and the endocrine glands. hglh-