University of Minnesota - Gopher Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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LAURENCE SCHMECKEBIER Fillf' Arlx ins JOSEPH M. THOMAS English f .a 4 Qfiifacttilfyt THE PROFESSORS YWRITE AND EXAMINATIONS AND GRADE REPORTS are only a bi-product of professorial pens. Dozens of books, en- cyclopedic and digested, chatty and erudite, are turned out by presses all over the country, the creative efforts of faculty men in every department of the University. Mexican Art, beautifully illustrated and popularly written, was the work of Laurence Schmeckebier, chair- man of the department of fine arts, and was published by the University Press. Beginners who depend upon the Burkhard series of elementary German texts now have the Hfth of the set to help them on their wayg Oscar W. Burkhard, chair- man of the German department and Lynwood Downs, assistant professor completed Schreiben Sie Deutsch this fall. In the shadow of the current war, Harold C. Deutsch, professor of history, is at work on a new history of the last world war. After three years of intensive work, Raymond L. Grismer, associate professor of romance languages, pub- lished early this fall an Index to 12,000 Spanish Ameri- can Authors, which is already widely used in this country and in Spanish America itself. Shakespeare came in for double consideration with Elmer E. Stoll's Shakespeare's Young Loversf' scheduled for early publication, and Frederic Skinner, assistant professor of psychology, analyzing his sonnets. OSCAR C. BURKHARD Gcr1na11 Five hundred fifty thousand words long and still growing is the anthology of Great English Prose Writers on which Joseph M. Thomas, assistant dean of the senior college, is already reading proof. A small book in itself is the ofhcial register of faculty publications which puts to shame any half-column list- ing of work in progress. A-m.,,,g RAYMOND L. GRISMER HAROLD C. DEUTSCH Romance Laugzuzges H isto ry

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saab .v..f s Y - --X-f--my M..--51 fi R R ' . N Nts. ,. RODNEY M. WEST lbelozuzl MOST STUDENTS FINISH four years of col- lege without ever seeing Rodney M. West, Registrar of the University, but he is the man who controls both their admission and graduation. For twenty years he has been admitting freshmen, directing the maintenance of their grade records which are kept in his office, checking the tedious Work of putting their names in the ad- dress book every fall, and finally approv- ing their application for a degree. He himself was a university student in 1902. In 1909 he joined the teaching staff as instructor of chemistry and eleven years later he succeeded E. B. Pierce as Regis- trar of the University. Since 1920 he has held that position. JOHN T. TATE llfffl ALTHOUGH Mosr PEOPLE call him head of the Arts College, John T. Tate personally emphasizes the science in his title, Dean of the College of Science, Literature and the Arts. His outstanding work in the field of physics was recognized last year in his election to the presidency of the American Physical society, whose publications he has edited since 1926. He assisted in the formation of the American Institute of Physics in 1931. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and former president of the local chapter of Sigma Xi. He came to Minnesota in 1916 as an instructor in physics and in June, 1937, became a University dean. THOMAS A. H. TEETER lflfffl BEING DIRECTOR of the second largest summer session in the country would be enough for most men, but it is merely the beginning for Thomas A. Teeter. Besides approving the budgets of the several de- partments, he is chairman Of the advisory committee handling questions of policy, staff appointments, announcements, pub- licity and class schedules. Then it is up to him to arrange convocation programs and represent the president's ofhce in all matters during the summer session. 'When he finally does take his vacation in Sep- tember, he first goes to his summer cabin near Brainerd and then is off to preside over the meetings of the Deans and Di- rectors of Summer Sessions. MALCQLM M. WILLEY lffsbfl SELECTING CONVOCATION PROGRAMS that will bring 4,500 people to Northrop Au- ditorium every Thursday is only one of Dean Malcolm M. Willey,s jobs as As- sistant to the President. He came to the University as a professor of sociology in 1927 and still edits the Sociological Re- view. Before that he had been a news- paperman on his family's own Pll1f71ll7lZ Pazfriof, a Connecticut weekly. Not un- til 1934 did he undertake the multiple duties of University front man. NVhen he isn't busy correlating the work of the scores of administrative ofhcers on cam- pus, he can usually be found in the garden or the library of the house de- signed for him by Frank Lloyd Wfright.

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Vs. unit ,. JOHN Ii. ANDERSON Cbilfl lVelf1H'f .46 XVILBUR H. CHERRY Law 1 -'rw T. ' i 3 5 . .2 -..,-1. 1 THE PROFESSORS STUDY XVI-IIIRE Tifna NIIDNIGI-IT ou- BURNS BRIGHT, there isn't always a senior boning for a final. The faculty knows that they can never stop studying if they are to help their students and the whole world learn. Reading, com- piling and gathering statistics is a greater part of a professor's work than the short hours of his lecture sessions. Over a period of ten to fourteen years Dr. John E. Anderson, director of the Institute of Child Nvelfare, has directed longitudinal, or long term, studies of the physical, mental and social growth and change of children. The Supreme Court has appointed NVilbur H. Cherry, professor of law, to a committee which will study revision of federal rules and statutes. Two other studies of law are in progress. The first is Roy G. Blal4ey's work on the federal income tax which is approaching the subject from the angle of distribu- tion. Also under way is his study of total and percentage income in the State of Minnesota. The fair trade laws and their effect on drug prices are being investigated by Associate Professor Harry Ostlund of the business school, whose survey will cover the entire United States. Kenneth H. Baker, assistant professor of psychology, has done extensive work on public opinion polls in an effort to determine and increase their accuracy. Through his study of Raimbaut d'Orange, a Provencal troubador, Walter T. Pattison, associate professor of romance languages, was able to locate twenty-three man- uscripts during a year in Paris and a summer in Avignon to add to the four that were available onthe poet when his work began. Dr. Peter J. Brekhus, professor of medical science, is making a study of mouth Conditions of freshmen which will form the basis for a ten-year comparison. But every professor studies. If a student works two hours for each hour of class, a professor works four or forty. From their painstaking research comes the hnger- tip knowledge that modern life demands. ROY G. BLAKEY BIIXTIIFXS KENNETH H. BAKER Psychology WALTER T. PATTISON HARRY J. OSTLUND Romanre Languages Business