Omaha daily bee., 1910-08-08
ANN ARBOR's NEW HEAD.
Dean Harry Burns Hutchins to Sue
coed DIR. ANGEL.

Dean Harry Burns Hutchins to Sue
coed DIR. Angel.
After celebrating for a whole year and
considering the qualifications of many
university presidents and Of several men
in public nfe the regents Of the University
OF Michigan decided last month that the
successor to DR.. James d. Angel as presi-
dent of the university Should be Dean
Harry Burns Hutchins. head Of the law
department
No graduate Of the University Of Michi-
gan ever can confuse Prof Hutchins with
any one else for it was Dean Hutchlns
who was responsible for that famous slogan
which as Interpreted by the students runs,
Remember the dignity of the depart
ment." The slogan was a great joke for
time, for the students OF Dean Hutchins
department of law were not noted for
merly for having the character Of doves
For time indeed the dean had to be the
dignity Of the department all alone.
Dean Hutchins chung to that slogan. He
was called to Michigan from Cornell in
1876. For five bitter years he labored under
his programme OF teaching law students
the principles Of department. Life was
acid in those days, and two wrinkles are
said to have appeared in his frock coats
at bho RulnL WAeIC TIC bltSNea IOAAlcu the
main body of the garment in front-an
indication that the deans shoulders had
stopped a fraction OF an inch.
That, however. was when tho notorious
class Of Naughty-NauEht, the Century
Laws" were wasting washtenaw county.
They almost broke the deans heart, that
class They went down In the annals of the
campus as the most undignified class ever
graduated. Tradition wasn't the only thing
they broke.
Did Dean Hutchins give up2 Web,
hardly To prove his sincerity and de-
termination he figuratively chopped off a
few heads. There was Just enough cere-
mony In connection with the act so that
everybody heard and did some thinking.
About four or five years ago the student
body realised that Dean Hutchins had at
| last won his point. The engineers and
Tits" found themselves pushing and gasp
! ing in a strictly 'law-less'' rush; the shirt
tail parade by "laws'' became a memory.
The capture OF locks of hair during hazing
became regarded as barbarous, and a gen.
! tlemanly though somewhat unexciting
struggle around huge push ball was APP
proved as the best outlet for undergraduate
animal spirits.
This year the graduates returning for
commencement week imagined they saw
more dignity than ever in Dean Hutchins;
that his back IL possible 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 admin
istratoH, they declared.
Or. Hutchins was born In Lisbon. N. H.
He received his preparation for college
at the New Hampshire Conference Semi
nary. at Triton. and at the Vermont Con-
ference Seminary, at Newbury. At 10 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 University of Vermont
and then at Dartmouth His family moved
to Michigan; so in the fall OF 1867 he en-
tered the State University Of Ann Arbor.--
New York Sun.