University of Michigan - Michiganensian Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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1911 MICHI G ANENSIAN sincerely thank Mr. Raymond Everett, S.B., of the Engineering Faculty, whose very able efforts are responsible for many of the drawings in the book and for the fine piece of color work which we have used as the title page ; H. VV. Meier, 14 Eng. ; Miss Charlotta Lind- strom, 11, to whom we are indebted for the class headings; Joseph Horner, Jr., 11: A. E. Curtis, 11 ; K. C. Welch, 14 Eng.; P. S. Pyle, 12 Law. and L. D. Gillis, under whose direction the work made such splendid progress. We also wish to express our thanks to Woodbridgc Metcalf, 11, whose camera gave us many of the snapshots which we have reproduced in the book; to the associate editors, who were ever ready, when called on, to perform any tasks assigned, and to the junior assistants and the underclassmen, W. P. Coler, 13, and C. G. Schoeffel, 13, who in the office, aided us greatly in the routine work so necessary in getting up a book of this kind. The year has been a momentous one in the history of the University, and we have tried to record everything of lasting importance. The election of President Hutchins as the head of the University, and the culmination of the eminently successful administration of President Emeritus James B. Angell, presents us with the opportunity, as a class, to congratulate our- selves on the enjoyment of attendance here during the close of the administration of one great man and the beginning of that of another, which we trust will be no less successful and praiseworthy. The activities of the student body have been marked by several things which we think worthy of mention here and which are given more space in the other sections of the book. The beginning of the active campaign for a new and adequate Michigan Union Clubhouse seems full of great promise, and we hope it will go on to a victorious climax. The activity of the women of the University through several years has resulted in the definite promise of at least one new residential hall within a year, and this we believe marks an epoch in the lives of the women here and points to the recognition of their equal needs and rights. By their own efforts they have earned these better conditions, and we wish them full enjoy- ment of the same, and success in their further efforts along these lines. The Student Council has continued its good influence and guidance of the common interests of the students, and has steadily gained ground in the estimation of the students, except for one unfortunate instance, where the decision of the body, after a cartful investigation and consideration of the facts in a case referred to it, was overruled by the Faculty and led to a lessening in the prestige of the Student Council in the eyes of both students and faculty. As we present this book to the public, we realize how many things there are which we might have made better, but we trust that our experience will be of some use to those who follow us and lead to a more perfect book next year. It has been our aim constantly to make the 1911 Michiganensian as accurate, as complete, and as attractive a history as could be compiled, and we have no apologies to make, for we have done our best and trust tin- book will meet with the approval of those whom we have represented in this work. THE EDITOR. [13]

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19 11 M I CHI G AN ENS I AN A President Harry B. Hutchins MODEST gentleman with a remarkable capacity for business administration, who wins one ' s heart through the loftiness of his ideals and the sincerity of his purpose that is an epitome of Harry Burns Hutchins, our new president. When Doctor James B. Angell retired from his position as the head of our university, the Board of Regents had the important task of choosing a successor who could carry on the work, which he had so ably executed since 1871. They considered the most prominent educators in the East and West, and finally selected a man who has shown that he is fully competent for the position by the way in which the standard of the Law Department has risen under his masterful leadership. Harry Burns Hutchins was born at Lisbon, New Hampshire, on April 8, 1847. He pre- pared for college at the New Hampshire Conference Seminary at Tilton, entered Wesleyan University at the age of nineteen, studied at the University of Vermont and Dartmouth, and finally entered the University of Michigan in the fall of 1867. He was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy in 1871, and became instructor of History and Rhetoric in 1872 and Assistant Professor in 1873. After having practiced law for several years, he returned to the University of Michigan as Jay Professor of Law. He held this chair for three years, and then accepted a call tendered him by Cornell University, to act as the head of the Law Department which had just been established there. In 1895, he was recalled to Michigan and became Dean of the Department of Law, a position that he held up to the time of his acceptance of the presidency, with the exception of his able services as acting president from 1897 to 1898, while Dr. Angell was ambassador to Turkey. That President Hutchins is a man of versatility is shown by the large number of phases of life in which he has taken and still takes an active interest. He is a member of the New York Bar Association, as well as the American Bar Association, in which he lias held the position of chairman of the Section on Legal Education. He is a member of the Michigan Law Review, consulting editor of the American and English Encyclopaedia of Law and Procedure, and author of the biography of the late Thomas M. Cooley in Great American Lawyers. Not only is he a contributor to various legal periodicals, but he has also edited the American edition of Williams on Real Property, and revised and annotated five volumes of the Michigan Supreme Court Reports, under the appointment of the Supreme Court. The most striking characteristic of President Hutchins ' administration thus far is the way in which he has awakened the interest of the alumni. He is particularly active in the organization of the graduate body, both in the state and in the country at large, and he expects that great good will result from this movement. In his address at the National Alumni dinner, held in New York City during February, he stated that our university at the present moment needs, in addition to its regular income, and to the special appropriation that it is now asking from the state, at least two million dollars, and he expressed the hope that the alumni would use their influence to aid the authorities in their efforts to supplement the regular income of the institution by private endowments. If there is any one dream which President Hutchins dreams, it is for the progress of the University of Michigan, in which he has ably served as student, instructor, professor, dean, and president, and, what is more, the student body is with him in his efforts to make this school second to none in scholarship, equipment and international reputation. WAKKKN E. CRANK. [15]