Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-09-08

"a 6cations of many university
presidents and of several men
IN public life the regents of the Uni
versity of Michigan have decided that
the successor to DIR. James B. Angel
Us president of the university shall be
Dean Harry Burns Hutchins, head OF
the law department.
No graduate of the University of
Michigan ever can confuse Professor
Hutchins with any one else, for it was
Dean Hutchins who was responsible
Tor that famous slogan which, as in
terpreted by the students, runs, Re
uoembah the dignity OF the depaht-
EienU."
The slogan was a great Joke for a
time, for the students of Dean Hutch
ius' department Of law were not noted
formerly for having the character OF
doves. For time indeed the dean had
10 be the dignity of the department all
alone
Dean Hutchins chung to that slogan.
He was called to Michigan from Cor
nell in 1895. For five bitter years he
labOred under his program of teaching
Ia g students the principles OF deport-
ment.
That. however, was when the noto-
TiouS class of Naughty Naught, the
century laws" were wasting wash
tenaw county. They almost broke the
deans heart that class. They went
down in the annals of the campus as
the most undigni6ed class ever gradu-
ated Tradition wasn't the only thing
they broke.
Did Dean Hutchins give up? Well,
hardly! About four or five years ago
the student body realized that Dean
Hutchins had at last won his point
The "engineers' and Lifts" found
themselves pushing and gasping in
strictly "law-less" rush. The shirt tail
parade by claws" became a memory.
The capture of locks of hair during
hazing became regarded as barbarous,
and a gentlemanly though somewhat
unexciting struggle around a huge
pushball was approved as the best out
let for Undergraduate animal spirits.
This year tEe graduates returning
for commencement week imagined
they saw more dignity than ever in
Dean Hutchins; that his back, If pos
sible, was straighter than ever in spite
of white hair and sixty-two years of
energetic living, and he had reason to
be proud, they said. He had done the
impossible He had tanned the law
students. He was a genius in ad-
ministration, they declared.
Dr. Hutchins was born in Lisbon, N.
II. He received his preparation for
college at the New Hampshire Con-
ference seminary, at Tilton, and at the
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Newbury. At nineteen he entered
Wesleyan university, Middletown, but
On account of bad health could not
complete the year. A few months later
he took up the study of anatomy,
physiology and surgery at the Univer-
sity of Vermont, and then at Dart
mouth. His family moved to Michi-
gan, so in the fall of 1867 he entered
the State university at Ann Arbor.
He was graduated in 1871 with
degree of bachelor of philosophy and
was chosen as commencement speak
er. which was the highest honor then
conferred by the faculty. The follow
ing year he had charge of the public
schools of Owosso. Mich He was re-
called to Ann Arbor In 1872 to be-
come an instructor in rhetoric and his
tory. In one year he was advanced to
the rank of assistant professor.
He spent three years more in Ann
Arbor before he went TO Detroit to
practice law for eight years in part
nership with his father-in1aw, Thorn
rs NJ. Croker
In 1884 he was recalled to the uni
Tersity as Jay professor Of law. Three