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would otherwise have been neglected. By the time of President Harper's death in 1906, the University of Chicago had become a pioneer in the field of education. The man who was Chosen to succeed Presi- dent Harper was faced with the problem of maintaining the high standard, set by the first president whose reputation still dominated the university. Henry Pratt JudsonJ the former Dean of Faculties, overcame this handicap and remained president for seventeen years. At the time of his ascension, he had already taught at the university for fifteen years and had served as acting president during President Harper's illness, so that he knew his associates and his organization well. A more practical, less in- spired man than Har er, Judson turned his attention to the backing of the school and when e retired, left a financiallyr strong university whose student body had increased eighty-six pet-eent and whose endowment had more than doubled. His successor, Ernest De Witt Burton, is probably most noted for the agreeable way in which his name combines with Judsonls to form the 0ft pronounced Burton-Judson Court. His services as Dean of Libraries had illustrated his ability as an organizer, but his untimely death in 1925 brought his career as president to an early end. Max Mason was brought from the University of Wisconsin to succeed him. A professor of mathematical physics, Mason was probably better known for his submarine detectors, invented during the World War I, than for all of his academic research. His reign of ofhce was short, for after three years he resigned to become director of natural sciences for the Rockefeller Foundation. It was then in 1929 that Robert Maynard Hutchins was appointed president. His reputation was almost as fabulous as that of Harper's. At twentyathree he had been secretary of Yale University; at twenty- eight he had been made Dean of the Yale Law School and had, thereupon, reorganized it to suit his theories,and now at thirty, he had become presi- dent of a great university. His likeness to the hrst president did not end there, for he, like Harper, had i'einzilutionatjrr plans for education and meant to make them work. His llnew plan , so successful today, meant two years of a broad college education and two years of specialized study. All work was voluntary and a student could advance as rapidly as he was
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able. Believing that fundamental ideas were being submerged under a deluge of facts, he emphasized philosophical courses and introduced to the campus the Aristotelian trio, Adler, Mac Keen, and Buchanan. Rush Medical School was made a graduate department, and the School of Edu- cation and the Law School were completely reorganized. Everywhere :1 new spirit of enthusiastic inquiry and intelligent objectivity prevailed, and since then the University of Chicago has become known as the place where men think thoroughly and speak freely, a center of great advance- ment. . Even today after tWelve years of steady progress, President Hutchins is still making remarkable changes. Some people do not sanction his abolition of inter-collegiate football, but few disagree with his widening of the universityls research department to all parts of the world. Whether they approve or not, everyone agrees that he is making a splendid attempt to keep education in pate with the times. This new objective of making the University of Chicago a pulsating influence in the world around it is an appro- priate climax to its history, for Surely it has done more than merely transmitt learning to thousands of students. It has lent its talent to creating new knowledge that has enlightened all mankind. Enrolled in the faculty are men whose prowress in science and literature have brought them honors from all over the world. Ever since Albert Michelson discovered the speed of light and thus clarified a whole field of physics, there has been a stalwart tradition of superiority to uphold. RobertA. Millikin and Arthur Holly Compton both advanced that tradition when they received Nobel prizes for their extraordinary work in physics. Howard Taylor Rieketts died seeking a cure for typhus, and George Dick is a name familiar to every school child as the discoverer of scarlett fever anti-toxin. So on through department and department, year after year, men seek more knowledge to bring to the world. Arthur Dempster and William Harkins are currently working endlessly and fruitfully in the shadowy, unexplored field where physics and chemistry meet. In the biology depart- ment, Professor A. J. Carlson is setting the pace with his scientific motto, Vat iss the ef-Fidencefl All of these contributions will add to the progress of the passing years and make the university an essential part of the future. So at the turn of the next century, the University of Chicago will be just as great as it is today, for it will have advanced with time and will fulfill the requisites of education in that age, whatever they may be.
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