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

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UNIVERSITY The most obvious and distinguishing features of the administration of the various units of the University of Michigan this year seem to be the important and far- reaching changes that have been affected. These changes for the most part have been innovations which will affect to no small degree the policies and characteristics of the University administration. On June 16th of last year, a temporary committee was appointed to handle the affairs of the Literary College. This move was made necessary by the death by heart attack of Dean John R. Effinger, well-known and well-liked Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and Arts. The affairs of the college were temporarily in the hands of this executive committee appointed by the Regents. The committee consisted of Professors Moses Gomberg, J. R. Hayden, L. C. Karpinski, D. H. Parker, and E. H. Kraus, Chairman. On August 30th the Chairman, former Dean of the Summer Session and the College of Pharmacy, was appointed Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, to be assisted in the running of the University ' s largest unit by an executive committee of six members appointed by the Regents through the President of the recommendation of the faculty for three year terms. Their appointments are staggered so that there will be two new members each year, and no one can hold a position for two terms without a year having elapsed between them. Dean Kraus has been in charge of the Summer Session continuously since 1915, and the College of Pharmacy since 1920. When Dr. Kraus was named Dean of the Literary College. Professor Louis A. Hopkins was named Director of the Summer Session to succeed Kraus, and Professor Howard B. Lewis was appointed Head of the College of Pharmacy, filling another of the posi- tions formerly held by Dean Kraus. Thus, the University had three new University administra- tors for important units at the beginning of the fall term this last year. Other departments of the University have remained almost unchanged as to actual administra- tion. Dr. Frederick G. Novy, chairman of the executive committee of the Medical School and a member of the University since 1886, was named Dean of the Medical School by the Board of Regents at their first fall meeting. He will continue in his position as chairman of the executive committee. Dr. Novy has been long on this campus and has won the respect and friendship of all who know him. Dean J.B.Edmondson of the School of Education is prom- inent in educational circles. From time to time he has issued statements which are both interesting and valuable. One zm m Above EIWARI H. KHAUS College of Literature. Srienre anil The Arts h ' ar l.ejt DEAN JOSEPH E. BURSLKY. Men Near Left DKAN ALICE C. LLOVD Women

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Plans of the Regents yet to be Realized Some ol the more important plans of the University of Michigan for some reason or other have not been realized. The one in which we are most interested is the one which concerns University Hall and the administration of the University. On August 26th the Board of Regents passed a resolution requesting that the University be allowed to share in the Michigan Institutional Building Program to the extent that a new Administration building be erected near the center of the campus proper. Incidentally, this program is part of the National Relief Program as in operation under President Roosevelt. The plans have been drawn up and submitted to the State Building Department for their careful consideration, thai department having complete charge of the entire state building program. These plans included the construction of a new Administration building for the University, the cost of which, fully equipped for occupancy, would have been approximately $600,000. These plans were completed and presented by ihe Buildings and Grounds Committee under the direction of Professor Lewis M. Gram, director of plant extension and Walter M. Roth, engineer of the Buildings and Grounds Committee. The plans as originally drawn up, provided for an Administration Building centrally located upon the campus of the University of Michigan. The plans were in accordance with previous plans which originated at the time the erection of Angell Hall was under consideration. As you perhaps know, the original plans call for a quadrangle of which Angell Hall is the West Wing and the proposed Administration Building the East Wing. From the North and South ends of Angell Hall were to be built wings extending east to join the proposed Administration Building and con- taining departments as does Angell Hall now. You may have noticed the blank construction of either end of Angell Hall, which allow an easy and convenient connection to extensions of the building at these points. As drawn and presented by Gram and Roth, the building would be 200 feet long and 135 feet wide, having four stories above the gound and a convenient basement for the storage of administra- tion supplies and records. The frame was to be of reinforced concrete, while the exterior was to be of brick and stone. It was planned that the building be very fireproof to safeguard the per- manency of the University records, as well as the safety of the occupants of the building. The heating and lighting was to have originated in the central heating and lighting plant located north- east of the campus proper. Their request that the University be allowed to share in the building program was not an extraordinary one in any respect. The State of Michigan anticipated the acquisition of $25,000,000 lor their share in the building program, which would have allowed them to give jobs to some 300 or 400 men. The $600,000 that was required for the building of this University project was not proportionally great. Then, too, the University is in possession of the land upon which the building would be erected. This is a point very much in favor of the request, as was the additional fact that the University could probably furnish quite a share of the materials itself. There were, however, many projects of the University which were approved and gotten under way early in 1934. These will have cost approximately $75,000 and will have furnished employment to some 260 to 280 men. An account of the extent and nature of these projects may be found on page seven of this section. We note all through any account of the activities of the Board of Regents this year, an earnest, sincere, and in most cases, successful effort for the betterment of University conditions. THE PRESIDENT ' S OFFICE THE REGENT ' S ROOM

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ADMINISTRATION appeared in the Michigan Educational Bulletin for Jan- uary, in which he makes the surprising statement that the Public Schools of the United States are faced with con- ditions which will ultimately destroy the country ' s present program of free education, unless changed. Other changes of different natures have been forth- coming. Professor Kmil Lorch, director of the College of Architecture has had a new duty as chairman of the advisory committee of a CWA project which is to record permanently phases of the architecture of the country ' s early history. One of the most important things that has happened since the close of school last June, of course, is the removal of the Law School from the campus proper to the new law building, Hutchins Hall, part of the law quadrangle on the south of the campus proper. This necessitated the changing around of many departments in the University. The old law building, now being used to house several departments of the Literary College, was named Haven Hall by the Board of Regents in honor of the Reverend Erastus O. Haven, president of the University from 1863 to 1869. The History Department is now firmly established in its new headquarters on the first floor of the south wing of the old law building. Professor A. E. Boak now has offices in the old room of the Board of Regents, the Regents now meeting in their new room on the first floor of Angell Hall. The Extension Department has moved from University Hall to the north wing of the old law building. The Journalism department has now moved from the fourth floor of the West Medical Building to the second floor of the old law building. The Sociology Department occupies part of the first floor and the greater part of the third in the old law building. The second floor of the old law building is now used as a study room. Do not think that the year is over yet. Other innovations of importance may be ' forthcoming. There are other changes being made from time to time, changes which are apt to affect the admin- istration to an even greater degree. There is a possibility that additional appropriations may be secured to carry on construction work which is needed, according to statements of those in charge. This is in a sense a transition period, a period in which the progressive movement, that was stopped by the so-called depression, has started again. Let us keep in mind always that this is and will be one of the most eventful years since the Uni- versity was first founded, and that the reforms which have been inaugurated this year are of great importance and extent. Abiivp DEAN FREDERICK G. Novy Medicine Far Riftht DEAN G. CARI. Hi inn Graduate Near Right DEAN HENRY M. BATKH Law