Evening star., 1927-10-13
c. v. j. ACADEMIC
UNITS REARRANGED
Reorganization Is Effected at
Meeting of Board of
Trustees.

A complete reorganization of the
academic departments of George
Washington University took place at
the stated meeting of the board of
trustees in Corcoran Hall yesterday
afternoon. The department of arts
and sciences was separated into
schools. to be headed by the incum.
bent deans. with various professors,
associate professors and assistant pro-
fessors in charge of the academic
units.
Announcement of the changes was
made by DIR. John B. Larner, presi-
dent of the board. They are the re-
suit of weeks Of planning by DR.. Cloyd
Heck Marvin. new president of the
university. They will go into effect at
once.
DIR. HOdgkins Retains Position.
Dr.. Howard L. Hodgkins will re-
main in the capacity of dean. DIR.
Henry Grattan Doyle will be dean of
men, a position only recently created,
and DIR. Anna L. Rose will be dean of
women.
There are now eight separate but
correlated units of the university.
Columbian College, to be headed by
Dean William Allen Wilbur. will con-.
tinue TO he known as Columbian Col
lege. The School of Graduate Studies
will be known as the Graduate School
and will be headed by Dean George
Neely Henning. Teachers College
will be known as the School of Educa-
ton and will be headed by Dean Will
liam c. Ruediger. The College of
Engineering will be known as the
School of Engineering and will be
headed by Dean John Lapham. The
Law School will remain the same, with
Dean William G. Van Week as its
head.
The Medical School will be known
as the School of Medicine. DR.. VIII
liam Cline Borden Is the dean. The
College of Pharmacy will be known
az the School of Pharmacy, with Dean
Lewis I. Bradley at its head. The
Summer sessions, popularity known as
the Summer School, will be known as
the Summer session, with Prof. Elmer
Louis Kayser as director, and the
department of library science will be
come separate school, to be known
as the Division Of Library Science.
with Prof. Alfred j.. w. Schmidt as
its director.
Chairmen Appointed.
The university departments, as the
various schools will be known, will
have acting chairmen as follows:
Bacteriology, DIR. Oscar b. Hunter;
botany, Prof. Robert +. Griggs; chem
istry, Prof Colin NJ. Mackall; classical
languages, Prof. Charles s. Smith;
commerce, Prof. John Donaldson; eco
nomics, Prof. Robert r. Kern; English.
Prof. Dewitt c. Croissant; geology.
Prof r. s. Bassler; German, Prof.
Edward II. Sehrt; history, Prof.
George ". Churchill; mathematics,
Prof. John T. Erwin; physics, Prof.
T. B. Brown; political science, Prof.
Charles e. Hill; psychology. Associate
Prof. Fred A. Moss; romance Ian
guages, Assistant Prof. M. Z. Protz-
man; zoology. Prof. Paul Bartsch;
department OF education. Associate
Prof. J. Orrin Powers: home econom-
les. Minna c. Denton: department of
architecture, Prof. Norris I. Crandali:
department of civil engineering. Prof
Frank A. Hitchcock; department of
electrical engineering. Assistant Prof.
Norman B. Ames. and department of
mechanical engineering, Associate
Prof. j. III. Platt.
Under the old regime and for many
years past the department of arts
and sciences embraced all of the vari-
GUS colleges with the exception OF the
Law Scho.l and the Medical School.