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

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H umanities From the College level Hum. l lpronOunced: Hzmze-IVOJH t0 the graduate level course called uHumel' lpronounced: Hnmee-Englisb 355k the Universityls Department of Humanities investi- gates that segment of human life and thought which includes the graphic and plastic arts, music, the languages and literatures of all the world, philosophy, and the consideration of all these helds in the interdepartmental and interdivisional com- mittees, such as one called Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods? Among the teachers in the Humanities Division, one will find Chancellor Lawrence A. Kimpton lprofessor 0f Philosophyl, University Dean of Stu- dents Robert M. Strozier lpmfessor 0f Frenchl, and College Dean Robert E. Streeter lassociate profeS- 501' of Englishl. One outstanding force in the Humanities Divi- sion has been Richard P. McKeon, translator, edi- tor, and philosopher. McKeon lCharles F. Grey Distinguished Service profeSSm-l is known to al- most every College student as the editor of the TopeNapier Wilt, Dean of Humanities; MiddleeArt from Hum l; Bottomv-To the Oriental Institute

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to provide the financial framework in which the Division can continue to fulfill its unique func- tion. Considerable construction work lies ahead. Drexel Avenue will be closed and a building will connect Billings Hospital and Lying-in Hospital. This will permit expansion, for instance, of the Department of Psychiatry and the extension of the research laboratories of the Department of Obstet- rics and Gynecology. New housing facilities for residents, interns, and student nurses are being planned. Similarly, the basic sciences 0f biochem- istry and physiology Will be aided by the antici- pated remodelling of Abbott Hall. In the fmal analysis, the future strength of the Division rests not merely upon its physical facili- ties, but more so on the greatness of the faculty. From the Bachelorts level up, the Division endeav- ors to provide the stimulating framework in which the students Wiljl develop into men that shall prove equal to the exciting problems that lie ahead in the biological sciences. Above-Conference over group of X-tays in Billings; Belowaechnician injecting a mouse to be used in an experiment in Billings II. mmuummmu

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Down Classics? steps from the library The Oriental Institute Modern Library Introduction :0 Aristotle, a book which is used in at least four of the undergraduate courses. Elder Olson, a professor of English, has pub- lished in the past few years a comprehensive study of the poetry of Dylan Thomas, and a book of his own poems called The Scarecrow Christ. Another member of the English Department, Richard G. Stern, has had several of his short stories published in magazines. Leland Smith, a member of the Department of Music, can count among his compositions a sym- phony and a musical setting for e. e. cummingsi morality play, Santa. Claus. During this Year he received the $1000 William and Noma Copley Foundation award for distinguished accomplish- ment in the held of music. Besides the Ideas and Methodsii Committee, there are six other interdepartmental or interdivi- sional committees: General Studies in the Humani- ties, Comparative Studies in Literature, History of Culture, Far Eastern Civilizations, Archeological Studies, and Medieval Studies. 23