THE END OF THE WAR In May the University celebrated a requiem service in honor of its sons who gave their lives in the Great War. Today we welcome back others of our members, faculty and students, who served in the good cause and who are at home once more. We greet them with full hearts and congratulate them on the privilege they had of contributing to the victory of our country and of the powers associated with us over the malign forces which so gravely threatened the world. Their example must strengthen our hands for conquest over any other sinister forces which may endanger our republic. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES BY J. SPENCER DICKERSON, Secretary NEW TRUSTEES At the annual meeting of the Board of Trustees the following were elected to succeed themselves for a period of three years: Messrs. Eli B. Felsenthal, Harry Pratt Judson, Harold F. McCormick, Julius Rosenwald, Martin A. Ryerson, Willard A. Smith, and Harold H. Swift. At the same meeting Dr. Wilber E. Post was elected a Trustee to fill a vacancy in the class of 1920, and Rev. Charles W. Gilkey to fill a vacancy in the class of 1921 caused by the death of Judge J. Otis Humphrey, of Springfield, Illinois. Dr. Post was graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1898, from the University of Chicago in 1900, and from Rush Medical College in 1903. He has practiced medicine in Chicago since his graduation from Rush Medical College. He is an assistant professor of medicine of Rush Medical College and an attending physician of the Cook County and Presbyterian hospitals. He was a member of the special Red Cross Mission sent to Russia in 1917 and, in 1918, of the American-Persian Relief Commission, of which President Judson was director. Dr. Post is the third alumnus of the University now a member of the Board of Trustees. There are two alumni of the old University now members of the Board. Mr. Gilkey has been pastor of the Hyde Park Baptist Church, Chicago, since 1910. He is a graduate of Harvard University (1903) and of Union Theological Seminary (1908), New York City. He has studied in the Universities of Berlin and Marburg, in the United Free Church College, Glasgow, New College, Edinburgh, and at Oxford University. He is a trustee of the Baptist Theological Union. He has repeatedly served as university preacher at Harvard, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Chicago. THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTE At the meeting of the Board of Trustees held May 13, 1919, President Judson announced a gift of $50,000 by Mr. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., to establish for a trial period of five years the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. The Institute is organized upon a plan outlined by Professor James Henry Breasted, Chairman of the Department of Oriental Languages and Literatures. The significant opportunity which world-conditions now present for exploration and study in the Near East and the Orient makes this provision for the purpose of research especially timely. At a subsequent meeting of the Trustees, Professor Breasted was appointed Director of the Institute and Mr. Thomas George Allen, Secretary of Haskell Oriental Museum, was chosen as the Secretary of the Institute. EDITH BARNARD MEMORIAL FELLOWSHIP The Board of Trustees at the meeting held June 10, 1919, accepted a fund of $3,000 creating the Edith Barnard Memorial Fellowship in Chemistry. The gift was accompanied by the following communication: The Board of Trustees University of Chicago CHICAGO, June 3, 1919 We, the undersigned, mother, brother, colleagues, pupils and friends of Edith Barnard, have subscribed to and completed a fund of $3,000 for the perpetual endowment of the Edith Barnard Memorial Fellowship in Chemistry, which we would now hereby tender to the University of Chicago as a gift, in token of our love and admiration for the rarely beautiful life which was lost to us so early, and also as a mark of appreciation and gratitude to the University, which contributed so much to the happiness of our departed friend by giving her a field for service in which her helpful nature and courageous, cheerful personality enriched the lives of many men and women. In the Memorial Fellowship we wish to see the name of Edith Barnard connected for all time with a form of helpfulness and service to others through her Alma Mater, as helpfulness and service were the salient characteristics of her life. It is to be understood that the fellowship will be awarded annually on recommendation of the Department of Chemistry on the usual conditions controlling fellowships in the University, that the stipend per year shall represent the total income received from the invested fellowship funds, that no service will be required in return for the fellowship appointment, and that the fellowship will be no bar to appointment to another University position (assistantship) not conflicting with the purposes of the fellowship. MRS. EMILY BARNARD EDGAR F. OLSON JULIUS STIEGLITZ AND SIXTY-FOUR OTHERS RESEARCH FELLOWSHIPS IN PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY President Judson, at the meeting of the Board of Trustees held May 13, 1919, reported the action of the Rockefeller Institute in reference to a plan for establishing national research fellowships under the direction of the National Research Council. The plan proposed by the National Research Council and approved by the officers provides for the support by the Foundation for a six-year period of such a system to be carried out by the National Research Council. The plan includes: a) A system of fellowships to be known as "National Research Fellowships in Physics and Chemistry supported by the Rockefeller Foundation." b) Provision through these fellowships of liberal stipends to persons who have already demonstrated a high order of ability in research, for the purpose of enabling them to conduct investigations at educational institutions which have made adequate provision for the effective prosecution of research in physics and chemistry. c) A definite agreement that the results of the investigation by the fellows shall be made available to the public without restriction. d) Such supplemental features as may promote the particular purpose of the project and increase its efficiency. Thus it should be possible in certain cases to provide the fellows with such special apparatus and technical assistance as their researches may require, to send them abroad for work for a time with leading investigators in their chosen fields of research, and to bring distinguished investigators to this country to visit the institutions at which research fellows are working and to stimulate and broaden their work. e) Adequate direction of the whole project by a research board. The Rockefeller Foundation pledges itself to appropriate to the National Research Council for the maintenance of a system of National Research Fellowships in Physics and Chemistry such additional sums for use in succeeding years as shall make available for expenditure during the period from May 1, 1919, to June 30, 1925, a total sum not to exceed $500,000. THE HERBERT A. AND HARRIET E. MORSE FUND By the will of Harriet Morse, deceased, a legacy of $3,000 was left to the University. The fund is to be known as the "Herbert A. and Harriet E. Morse Fund," the income of which is to be applied to the education of worthy and needy persons desiring to attend the University. A son, Walter H. Morse, now of New York City, was a student in the University in the years 1905-8. APPOINTMENTS In addition to reappointments the following appointments have been made by the Board of Trustees: Alfred Eustace Haydon to an instructorship in the Department of Comparative Religion, from July 1, 1919. Lawrence M. Levin to an instructorship in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, from October 1, 1919. Robert S. Platt to an instructorship in the Department of Geography, from October 1, 1919. Benjamin H. Willier to an associateship in the Department of Zoology, from October 1, 1919. Colonel Harold E. Marr, U.S.A. Field Artillery, to the professorship of Military Science and Tactics, from May 1, 1919. Willis Eugene Gouwens as Curator of Kent Chemical Laboratory, from July 1, 1919. Ellsworth Faris to a professorship in the Department of Sociology, from October 1, 1919. He is professor of psychology in the University of Iowa and acting director of the Iowa Child Welfare Research Station. Edson Sunderland Bastin to a professorship of Economic Geology, from January 1, 1920. Professor Stuart Weller as Director of Walker Museum, from July I, 1919. Jacob Viner to an assistant professorship in the Department of Political Economy, from October 1, 1919. He is at present connected with the office of the United States Tariff Commission at Washington. Paul R. Cannon to an instructorship in the Department of Hygiene and Bacteriology, from October 1, 1919. Russell S. Knappen to an instructorship in the Department of Geology, from October 1, 1919. Leonard B. Loeb as Research Fellow in the Department of Physics. Mary Faith McAuley to an assistant professorship in Institution Economics in the College of Education, from October 1, 1919. Laura van Pappelendam to an instructorship in the Art Department of the College of Education, from October 1, 1919. Carl J. Holzinger as teacher of Mathematics in the University High School, from October 1, 1919. William G. Burkett as teacher of Mathematics in the University High School, from October 1, 1919. |