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Acting-president fiutcbins. PROFESSOR JEROME C. KNOWLTON. JN the early seventies, at the University of Michigan, attendance at chapel was required of all students in the literary department. The exercises were held in the present law lecture room. After a reading- of Scripture and prayer by the President some member of the senior class delivered an oration of from five to ten minutes in length. This was an essential part of college training. In the fall of 1870 a timid and unsophisticated freshman sat in the rear part of the law lecture room and during chapel exercises listened to an oration by a grave and reverend senior. Seniors were graver then than now and more revered. The senior who delivered the oration on this occasion was none other than the Acting President of our University and the freshman who listened was the writer of this sketch. Harry Burns Hutchins came from the rock-ribbed hills of New England. Her sons and daughters have been powerful, during the past fifty years, in shaping the policy of the great Northwest. In the fall of 1867 he entered the University of Michigan as a candidate for the degree of Ph. B., which he received with the class of ' 71. During his under- graduate course his excellence in speaking and writing attracted the attention of the faculty and students. The senior class elected him class orator and managing editor of the Chronicle, then a weekly publication of great influence in our college life. He was also selected by the faculty to deliver a commencement oration. In fact, throughout his college career, whenever an occasional address was to be delivered by a student, he was one of the first of the men thought of. In 1872 Mr. Hutchins married Miss Mary L. Crocker, of Mt. Clemens, Michigan. Mrs. Hutchins is well known here. Society regretted her departure for Cornell, several years ago, and welcomed her return. Her careful attention to social and charitable obligations is of great
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assistance to her husband in the performance of his present duties and also of great value to our community. Mr. Hutchins was admitted to the bar in 1876 and commenced practice at Mt. Clemens and Detroit as a member of the firm of Crocker Hutchins. In 1884 the Regents of the University were looking for some one to succeed Judge Cooley, as Jay Professor of Law, he having resigned that position, to the regret of all interested, and after many years of invaluable service to the institution. At this time Mr. Hutchins had made his mark as a teacher, as a lawyer at the bar, and as a literary gentleman of rare attainments. He had also been presented before the people of the State as a candidate for the position of Regent of the University. He was unanimously called by the Regents to the Jay Professorship and entered upon his duties in the fall of 1884. There were no doubts as to his qualifications for this new field of work. His success as a teacher and as a leader of students in and out of the class room was assured as soon as he returned to the campus where he had previously studied and taught. In 1887 Cornell University decided to establish a law department. Her eye fell upon Michigan and Professor Hutchins was invited to under- take the work of building up a school of law at that institution. He accepted the call. Ten years have passed and through his efforts Cor- nell has in its buildings, its library and its faculty, one of the best law schools in this country. Intelligence in administration and executive force are essential in university work and few men possess these qualifications in a higher degree than Professor Hutchins. We may quote here the words of Professor Huff cut, of Cornell: During the eight years that Professor Hutchins has guided the affairs of the school its growth in efficiency, reputation and material resources has been rapid and in some respects remarkable. The first faculty consisted of three members; it now numbers five resident professors and seven non-resident lecturers. The attendance of students has increased from 55 in the first year to 225 during the present year. It began life in the attic of an over-crowded building; it is now housed in a superb building erected to meet its special needs at a cost of over $100,000. Its library has grown from almost noth- ing to over 22,000 volumes. In 1895 Professor Hutchins was called by the Regents to the position of Dean of the Law Department of the University of Michigan. On entering upon his duties here, he found confronting him the trouble-
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