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

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r 1911 MICHI G ANENSIAN Board of Regents HARRY B. HUTCHINS, HON. LOYAL E. KNAPPEN .... HON. Lucius L. HUEBARD .... HON. JOHN H. GRANT HON. WALTER H. SAWYER . . . , HON. JUNIUS E. BEAL HON. FRANK B. LELAND .... HON. WILLIAM L. CLEMENTS . HON. GEORGE P. CODD HoN. LUTHFR L. WRIGHT, Lansing . SHIRLEY W. SMITH, Ann Arbor GEO. S. BAKER, Ann Arbor Not in picture. L.L.D., President . Grand Rapids Dec. 31, 1911 . Sault Ste. Marie, Dec. 31, 1911 . Manistee Dec. 31, 1913 . Hillsdale Dec. 31, 1913 . Ann Arbor Dec. 31, 1915 Detroit Dec. 31, 1915 . Bay City Dec. ,1, 1917 . Detroit Dec. 31, 1917 Superintendent of Public Instruction Secretary of the Board Treasurer of the Board [16]

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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]

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I WILLIAM l.CLl MENTa U -fr HARKY B. HOTCHINS, LL.D ft. PRESIDENT j s ' [17]