ONE-SENATE MINUTES-5137 UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA THE SENATE MINUTES REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS AND RULES To the University Senate: Your Committee on Business and Rules respectfully presents the following matters for your consideration at the second meeting of the Senate, Februar~ 16~ 1939. I. Approval of the minutes of OCtober 2 , f;JS " II. Report of the Committee on Business and Rules III. Report of the Administrative Committee IV. Report of the Committee on Relation of the Univer- sity to Other Institutions of Learning V. Report of the Committee on Necrology I. APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES OF OCTOBER ZO, 1938 II. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON BUSINESS AND RULES Your committee on Business and Rules recommends the adop- tion of the following by-law : XIV 29 The President shall have the power to increase the number of members that shall constitute the committees for any year when- ever he deems it for the best interests of the University to do so. HENRY RoTTSCHAEFER, Chairman III. REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE 1. Items reported for action 1. Definition of Probation. It was voted to approve the follow- ing joint recommendations of the Senate Committees on Students' Work and Student Affairs: "A student shall not be eligible: (1) To take part in any public performance of a dramatic or musical club. (2) To be a competitor in public debates, oratorical contests or judging contests. (3) To be a member of the editorial board of any student publication. / (4) To be a member of the All-University Council or any other student organization which may make an appreciable demand upon the student's time, "If he has not (1) Completed an average of eighty per cent of the number of credits per quarter required for graduation (2) Maintained ninety per cent of the quality required for graduation in his college work (3) If he is not carrying twelve or more credits of college work. 2. Senate Committees for 1938-39. In view of the fact that the Senate meeting for December has been postponed, it was voted to approve the following Senate committees as nominated by the President: lnt"coUegiate Atltletic.r: Pierce, W. L. Boyd, Diehl, McCor- mick, Middlebrook, Rottschaefer (Conference representa- tive), G. M. Stephenson, Zeiner; Malvin J. Nydahl, Md '35, Vernal A. LeVoir, EdEx '36, Alumni; George F. Gustaf- son, Ed '39, William E. Proffitt, Md '39, Students. Student Affairs: Nicholson, Blitz, Hartig, Short, Stakman; William M. Thomson, L '40, Paul A. Feyereisen, IT '39, Carolyn G. Cook, AgEd '39, Mary D. Burt, A '40, Stu- dents. Debate and Oratory: Rarig, Casey, Castell, Knower, Wesley; Helen H. Holtby, Ed '39, Hubert H. Humphrey, A '40, Paul 0. Johnson, A '41, Margaret Meier, Ed '39, and Ray- mond D. Van Nest, UC '39, Students. University Functions: Pierce, Blitz, Burkhard, Faulkner, C. P. Fitch, Holman, MacLean, O'Brien, Potts, C. M. Scott, ]. M. Thomas. University Printing: West, Middlebrook, Paul E. Miller, Mar- garet S. Harding, Walter. Education: McConnell, Koepke, MacLean, W. S. Miller, Neale, Stakman, Tate, R. S. Vaile, Visscher. Bwiness and Rules: Rottschae/er, 0. P. Field, Casey, Free- man, West. Relation of University to Other Institutions of Learning: Shumway, Boardman, A. M. Field, W. S. Miller, H. D. Myers, Ostlund, West. Library: Blegen, E. H. Comstock, Gartner, Lind, MacDougall, ]. C. McKinley, Ruud, Walter, Wesley, Willey. Necrology: Ogle, McDowell, Dora V. Smith, C. ]. Watson. Students' Work: Nicholson, Blitz, Shumway, West, Chairmen of the Students' Work Committees of the several schools and colleges. 3. Calendar for 1939-40. It was voted to recommend to the University Senate the calendar for 1939-40 as submitted by the Reg- istrar with minor alterations and corrections. I I ! TWO-SENATE MINUTES-5137 UNIVERSITY CALENDAR 1939-40 1939 September 18 Monday September 21 Thursday September 25 Monday September 25-26 September 25-29 September 27-30 September 28-29 October 2 October 7 Monday Saturday October 19 Thursday October 21 Saturday November 11 Saturday November 25 Saturday November 30 Thursday December 15-16 and 18-21 December 21 Thursday Fall Quarter Extension registration first semester begins Payment of fees closes, except for new students1 Entrance tests Registration for Freshman Week for all new students entering the freshman class Examinations for removal of conditions Physical examinations Registration period," College Literature, and the Arts Freshman \Veek of Science, Registration days' for all colleges not included above Fall quarter classes begin 8 :30 a.m.• First semester extension classes begin• Last day for extension registration with- out penalty Senate meeting, 4 :30 p.m. Homecoming Day Armistice Day ; a holiday Dad's Day Thanksgiving Day ; a holiday Final examination period Commencement Convocation Senate meeting, 4 :30 p.m. Fall quarter ends, 6 :00 p.m.' Winter Quarter December 28 Thursday Payment of fees closes for all students 1940 January January January January February February February February February February 2 2-3 4 22 3 5 9 12 15 22 Tuesday Thursday Monday Saturday Monday Friday Monday Thursday Thursday March 15-16 and 18-21 March 21 Thursday March March April May May 29 29-30 1 11 16 Friday Monday Saturday Thursday in residence fall quarter' Entrance tests Registration" for new students in all col- leges Winter quarter classes begin 8 :30 a.m.• Extension registration second semester begins First semester extension classes close Second semester extension classes begin' Last day for extension registration with· out penalty Lincoln's Birthday; a holiday (except for extension) Charter Day Convocation Senate meeting, 4 :30 p.m. Washington's Birthday; a holiday (ex- cept for extension) Final examination period Commencement Convocation Payment of fees closes for all students' in residence winter quarter Winter quarter ends, 6 :00 p.m. Spring Quarter Entrance tests Registration• for new students in all col- leges Spring quarter classes begin, 8 :30 a.m.' Mother's Day Cap and Gown Day Convocation Senate meeting, 4 :30 p.m. May 30 Thursday Memorial Day ; a holiday May 31 Friday Second semester extension classes close June 7-8 and 10-14 Final examination period June 9 Sunday Baccalaureate service June 14 Friday Spring quarter ends, 6:00 p.m. June 15 Saturday Sixty-eighth aunual commencement June 17-18 June 19 July 4 July 25 July 26 July 29 Summer Session Wednesday Thursday Thursday Friday Monday Registration, £rst term First term Summer Session classes begin 8:00a.m. Independence Day ; a holiday Commencement Convocation First term closes Registration and payment of fees for sec- ond term close Second term classes begin 8 :00 a.m. August 30 Friday Second term closes 1 New atudents must pay feea on dates announced for registration iD the registra· tion inatruotlont. Feet of graduate atndentt are due one week after their registration is approved by the dtan of the Graduate School. t Rqlstration subeequent to the clllte speeified will nece11itate the approval of the college eoneerned. See also late feet for late registration, page 55. No student will llf' allowed to rqiater iD the Uaivenity after one week from the beginning of the Quar· ter aerptina ia unusual cases whereia speeial circumstances aball justify the appropriate committee of the collqe eoncenaed permitting regiatration at a later date. • Fint hoar e1aues hecla· at 8:15 Lm. at Uaiveraity Farm. • ThJa date does not refer to correapondeace atudy coursea, which may be atarted at any time duriq the year. • Ezteaaion o:lauea continue to Saturday, December 23, and will resume Tueacllly, January 2, 1940. THREE-SEN ATE MINUTES-5137 2. Items reported for information 1. Textbook Approval. It was voted to approve the following textbooks for use in University classes : SuPERVISION by A. S. Barr, W. H. Burton, and Leo]. Brueck- ner. STUDY METHODS WoRKBOOK by Assistant Professor Kenneth H. Baker. 2. Mimeographed Material Approval. It was voted to approve the following mimeographed material for sale and use in University classes. 200 copies Text in use of Engineers' Slide Rule including exercises. To be sold by Engineers' Bookstore at $1.00 each 425 copies Syllabus sheets for Business Law-Contracts. To be sold by Engineers' Bookstore, University Press at 25 cents each 175 copies Syllabus for General College course in Minnesota History entitled "Readings in Early Minnesota History" to be sold by Engineers' Bookstore at $2.15 each 175 copies Syllabus for General College course in Basic Wealth entitled "Our Natural Resources: Their Economic Uses and Conservation" to be sold by Engineers' Bookstore at $1.00 each 325 copies Syllabus for the Study of Vocations, Part I, "Choice of an Occupation" to be sold by Engineers' Bookstore at 65 cents each 120 copies Outline of course "Medical History and Bibliog- raphy" given by Dr. Scammon to sophomore medical stu- dents. To be sold by Engineers' Bookstore at 30 to 40 cents each 300 copies Outlines for Textiles Study-printed by Burgess Publishing Company, Minneapolis. To be sold by Univer- sity Farm Bookstore at $1.00 each 350 copies Directions for cataloging model cards and bibliog- raphy of tools to be used in preparing class assignments. By Lura C. Hutchinson. To be sold by Engineers' Book- store at 25 cents each 1300 copies Study questions for use in Psychology 1f to be sold by Engineers' Bookstore at 5 cents each 1000 copies Objective Examinations in English A£ and Compo- sition 4f for the years 1935, 1936, and 1937. To be sold by Engineers' Bookstore to distribute them for sale to the Minnesota Book Store, Perine's Book Store, and the Min- nesota Cooperative Book Store, price 25 cents 500 copies Ethnographic Regions and Tribes Frequently Re- ferred To. To be sold by Engineers' Bookstore, price 5 cents 250 copies Part I, Part II, Part III, Introduction to Philosophy. To be sold by Engineers' Bookstore, price $1.60 for set of 3 volumes _ 250 copies Handbook of Laboratory Procedures for Medical Technologists (2nd edition of the 1936 copy). To be sold by the Engineers' Bookstore, price $1.15 200 sets Cards with samples and information for fabric selec- tion and identification for course Home Economics 1. Sets of 28 cards each. To be sold by University Farm Book- store at 40 cents per set. 400 copies Outline of Neurology and Psychiatry-Med. 40 and 41. To be sold by Engineers' Bookstore, price $1.65 250 copies John Stewart Mill "On the Connection between Justice and Utility." To be used by Professor Castell in "Introduction to Modern Philosophy." To be sold by Engi- neers' Bookstore, price 20 cents 150 copies Introduction to Radiology and Physical Therapy. To be sold by Engineers' Bookstore, price 30 cents 100 copies Thirty Plant Pathology Seminar Papers for 1938-39. To be sold by University Farm Bookstore, price 80 cents per set. 3. Director of the Summer Session. It was voted to include the Director of the Summer Session as a member of the Administrative Committee of the Senate. 4. Reports of the Meeting of the Western Intercollegiate Con- ference. Attention was called to a report from Professor Rott- schaefer, Conference representative, covering the action of the con- ference approving the limited training table for football. 5. The Committee on Fees. President Ford called attention to the growing practice of establishing course fees, and it was voted to authorize the appointment of a standing committee on fees to act in an advisory capacity to the President's Office. R. M. WEsT, Secretary IV. REPORT OF THE COMMITEEE ON RELATION OF THE UNIVERSITY TO OTHER INSTI- TUTIONS OF LEARNING 1. Items reported for action 1. St. Mary's Academy, Graceville. On recommendation of the inspector it was voted to approve this school for the usual three- year period. 2. Breck School, St. Paul. It was voted on recommendation of the inspector to accredit this school for one year and place it on the published list subject to reinspection next year. R. R. SHUMWAY, Chairman FOUR-SENATE MINUTES-5137 V. REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON NECROLOGY ALICE MAY CHILD 1876-1938 Alice May Child, Associate Professor of Home Economics who had been connected with the University as student, instructor: and Associate Professor since 1898, died July 10, 1938. Miss Child was born in Chaska, Minnesota, May 3, 1876, entered the University upon her graduation from high school, and received the B.S. degree in the School of Chemistry in 1901. She taught physics and chemistry nntil1912, when she went to Columbia, Missouri, to continue graduate study for the M.A. degree. After a brief teaching experience in Milwaukee she returned to the Uni- versity of Minnesota to become a laboratory assistant, working under the direction of Mrs. Mildred W. Wood, then chief of the Division of Home Economics, in studies on the relation of chem- istry to foods. She became an instructor in 1913 and Associate Professor in 1929. When in 1926 the Purcell Act provided funds for the establish- ment of an experimental station, Miss Child became a member of the staff and it was in this capacity that she was able to inaugurate and to direct numerous investigations into the value, the use, the preparation of foods. The results of such research were published in the Bulletins of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station and in various journals, such as the Journal of the A1:zcrican Die- tetic Association, Journal of Agricultural Research, Journal of Home Economics, South Dakota Horticulturist and, in more popu- lar form, in the Ladies Home Journal and McCall's Magazine. Just before her last illness she attended a meeting in Chicago of the Committee on the Cooperative Meat Investigation, of which she had been a member since its organization. Professor Child was an enthusiastic teacher, quick to recognize new problems in her field and fertile in suggestive new approaches to old problems. She gave much to the University and to the state during the nineteen years of her service and left a memory that will endure. LOTUS DELTA COFFMAN 1875-1938 Lotus Delta Coffman, fifth president of the University of Min- nesota, died in Minneapolis on September 22, 1938. He was born at Salem, Indiana, January 7, 1875. After an education in the public schools of that state, he graduated from the Indiana State Normal School in Terre Haute and from Indiana University (A.B. 1906). Thereafter he pursued graduate studies at Indiana University (M.A. 1910) and Columbia University (Ph.D. 1911). In recogni- tion of his high achievements as educator and administrator, Presi- dent Coffman was awarded honorary degrees by Carleton College, Indiana University, the University of Michigan, Northwestern Uni- versity, the University of South Dakota, Williams College, George Washington University, and the University of Denver. In 1896, Mr. Coffman began his distinguished professional ca- reer in the schools of Indiana, where he served as principal and superintendent. He continued as supervisor of the Training School at Charleston, Illinois, as lecturer at Columbia University, and as Professor of Education at the University of Illinois. In 1915 he came to the University of Minnesota as Dean of the College of Education, and on July 1, 1920, he succeeded Marion Le Roy Burton as President. Numerous organizations, particularly in education and public service, profited from President Coffman's sane idealism and shrewd judgment. He was a trustee of the Carnegie Corporation and of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, and a president of the National Association of State Universities, of the North Central Association of Colleges, of the National Association for the Study of Education, of the Association of Urban Univer- sities, and of the College Teachers of Education. He served also as a chairman of the American Council of Education, of the American Youth Commission, of the Minnesota Commission on Land Utiliza- tion, and of the National Commission of Inquiry on Public Service Personnel. He directed or participated in educational surveys in North Dakota, Kansas, Texas, Missouri, California, North Carolina, and in Rutgers University, New York University, the University of Chicago, and Northwestern University. President Coffman published a large and substantial body of reports, addresses, and papers, which have shaped American think- ing on university problems and on public service; he collaborated on several text-books; and he wrote The Social Composition of the Teaching Population, Teacher Training Departments in Minnesota High Schools, and The State U11iversity: Its Work and Problems. In this, his last volume, President Coffman gave final utterance to his elevated faith in the state university as an agent of social progress. During the eighteen years of his administration, President Coffman either instigated or gave decisive approval to such memo- rable innovations as the wide expansion of the University Hospitals and the establishment of the Institute of Child Welfare, the Com- mittee on Educational Research, the General College, the Institute of Technology, and the Center for Continuation Study. He en- couraged the creation of a department of Fine Arts, the establish- ment of the Artists Course of Concerts, the erection of the Music Building and Northrop Auditorium, the bringing of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra to the campus, and the opening of the Little Gallery. He kept athletics free from extra-university interference, fostered intramural sports, and supported the construction of the Stadium, which, from its earnings, has made possible the erection of the Field House and Cooke Hall. His constant interest in the welfare of students has its monument in Pioneer Hall and the Powell Hall, and in current plans for a new dormitory for women and a new student union. His major concern, however, was for his faculty. He did everything possible to retain able men in the face of inducements from other institutions, to add to the staff both young scholars of promise and mature men of estab- lished reputation, to encourage all types of research, to give every teacher full freedom in his own classroom, and to increase salaries, set up faculty insurance, and provide funds for retirement. Under such guidance, the University of Minnesota steadily increased in stature and in good repute, until it attained its high rank among the universities of the world. No president of a great university has exercised his wide powers with more modesty, more patience, or more simplicity than Lotus Delta Coffman. Back of this unpretentious manner, giving drive and force to every utterance, were rich resources of judgment and unbiased justice, steady loyalty and courage. Expressing his vigorous convictions in direct and forthright terms, he was never ambiguous; University and State knew where their President stood and respected him for his candor. Central in the man and motivat- ing every policy was an uncorruptible intellectual honesty, not dog- matic but receptive, willing to listen, eager to learn-the open- minded honesty of the true scholar. Thus President Coffman grew with his university; and with the passing of the years, he too, in- creased in stature and in vision. Respected alike by those who ac- cepted and those who rejected his ideals and loved by those who in the vast reaches of the University came intimately to know him, he left no heritage of factiousness or strife. In his quiet dignity and his simple strength, Lotus Delta Coffman was the ideal American democrat. President Coffman is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Emma Coffman; a daughter, Mrs. Catharine Ferrell Knutson; a son, William Mansfield Coffman; and his mother, Mrs. Laura C. Coffman. HENRY JESSE FLETCHER 1860-1938 There are quiet men about whom the public at large knows little, but whose influence for good is widely pervasive. Such an one was Henry Jesse Fletcher, Professor of Law, who died Novem- ber 8, 1938, at Cardinal, Virginia. He was educated at the Univer- sity of Michigan, came to Minneapolis as a young man, practiced law for a few years, and then joined the faculty of the Law School of the University in 1895, when the School was seven years old. From that date until his retirement because of ill health in 1929 he served the University without interruption. During his career he taught most of the subjects in the Law School curriculum, al- though in his later years he specialized in Sales, Insurance, and Bankruptcy. He was the first Editor-in-Chief of the Mimtesota Law Review, serving from its inception in 1907 until his retirement and had much to do with raising that Review to the high place it occupies with the Bar of Minnesota and throughout the country. He was granted the Master of Laws degree by the University of Minnesota in 1906. He is survived by his wife, who now lives near Cardinal. Vir- ginia, two sons, Roderick and David, and two daughters, Miriam Fletcher Bennett and Pauline Fletcher Steadman. During the thirty-four years of Professor Fletcher's connec- tion with the University of Minnesota, by far the greater number of the graduates of the Law School now living had the good for- tune to come under his instruction. Above and beyond his extensive learning in literature, history, and the many fields of law, he will be remembered long for his graciousness and his unusual qualities of mind and heart. His colleagues on the Faculty, his associates on the Law Review, and the many hundreds of his former students will mourn him as one of the finest gentlemen thev have ever known. THEOPHILUS LEVI HAECKER 1846-1938 When one reads the story of the achievements of Thcophilus Levi Haecker. Professor Emeritus of Dairy Husbandry, who died August 12, 1938. one reads the story of the agricultural advance of the Northwest from pioneer days to the present. Professor Haecker was born of German stock, the fourth of twelve children, in a log cabin in Ohio. The family soon moved to a farm near Madison. Wisconsin, where he entered the Univer- sity of Wisconsin in 1863. After service as a volunteer under Grant during the Richmond campaign, he taught school for several years, edited a paper in Iowa, then renewed attendance at the Uni- versity of Wisconsin. and finally established a dairy farm near Madison. Governor Taylor appointed him executive clerk in 1874, a position he held for seventeen years, during which he also con- ducted experiments on his farm and prompted cooperation and agri- cultural education in Wisconsin. In 1891 he became instructor in the first dairy school of its kind in the world, and in the same year the Regents of the Univer- sitv of Minnesota secured him as an instructor in dairying at the University. In 1903 he was made Professor of Dairy Husbandry to which in 1907 the title of Professor of Animal Nutrition was added. In 1918 Professor Haecker retired as Professor Emeritus. FIVE-SENATE MINUTES-5137 The agricultural situation in Minnesota was ripe for the com- ing of Mr. Haecker, since grain farming was waning and dairying was needed. In all its branches he was a leader. The results of his studies in milk production and animal nutrition, which were published in a series of bulletins, became known as "The Haecker Standard" and were used throughout the country. He lectured to farmers up and down the state, pointing the way to successful dairying through selection of cattle, the adoption of scientific feed- ing, and the establishment of co-operative creameries. Not only did he improve dairy manufacture by maintaining a school for butter and cheese makers, over 2500 of whom were taught by him, but, as a firm believer in co-operative production and marketing induced farmers to follow the Danish plan. During his time co-operative creameries increased from four to six hundred and eighty. Professor Haecker was a member of Sigma Xi ; the American Association for the Advancement of Science ; American Association of Animal Nutrition; the National Dairy Union. The University of Wisconsin in 1923 awarded him a testimonial for distinguished service in animal nutrition. In 1925 the Unversity of Minnesota conferred a similar testimonial and named the dairy building Haecker Hall. The American Farm Bureau gave him a medal for distinguished service. The Government sent him in I909 as repre- sentative to the world dairy convention in Budapest. Dairy organ- izations have honored him repeatedly, and William Watts Folwell included him among "the twelve apostles of Minnesota." Professor Haecker's career was remarkable in that he did not begin his university work until he was forty-five years old. But his variety of experiences had prepared him for his position as investi- gator, teachers, and leader. In science he had no confidence in con- clusions not based on thorough and detailed experiment. On the other hand he had a missionary zeal in spreading practical scientific information. He believed in the people, was deeply concerned with their welfare, and had the courage and ability necessary to cham- pion their cause. For twenty years after his retirement he lived a contended, active life, gratified to see his work vigorously continued, maintaining his reading in history and science, and thankfully and humbly receiving the loving tributes of old students and friends. SAMUEL KROESCH I879-1938 The death of Samuel Kroesch, Professor of German and Chairman of the Department, who died October 26, 1938 after an illness of several months, makes a visible breach in the ranks of American linguists and deprives the University of a fine scholar and a teacher at once effective and popular. Professor Kroesch was born at Woolwich, Ontario, Canada, February IO, I879. His parents came to this country when he was still a child and he was educated in the public schools, graduating from the University of Missouri in 1903. From that date until 1908 he taught in the high school at Edmund, Oklahoma, in the meantime carrying on graduate work at the University of Chicago. He was one of those students whom the changes in our educational system are every day making more rare: one thoroughly trained in Ancient and Modern Languages. He knew German, of course, from childhood, and was brought up on the classics of German literature; in school and college he added Greek and Latin, French, and above all, Spanish, to which he was always devoted, though his scientific work only incidentally made use of it. Accordingly, when he went up to the University of Chicago he was equipped as few graduate students were-<~r are-to follow his bent for lin- guistic studies. And he had the good fortune to find that precisely the right men to guide him, among them F. A. Wood, whose in- fluence on Professor Kroesch's studies is patent from the beginning. In such an environment and under such teachers his training and native powers came to full fruition. Even before he took his doc- tor's degree he published in Modern Philology a short but impor- tant paper on "The Formation of Compound Words in Gothic," which cleared up a puzzling problem which authorities had noticed but had not met. In this paper Professor Kroesch gave evidence of his deep interest and understanding of that feature of language which was thereafter to hold chief place in his thought and study, the why and wherefore of the meaning of words. His doctoral dissertation, published in I9ll, two years after he had received his Ph.D. degree, is a learned and acute study on the semantic development of certain words in the Old Germanic dialects. His more mature work ex- panded and deepened these early efforts and gave to the world of scholarship valuable and illuminating discussions of the importance of analogy as a factor in semantic change. Professor Kroesch came to the University of Minnesota in 19'16 as Assistant Professor, finally becoming in 1928, upon the death of Professor Schlenker, Professor and Chairman of the Department. The only interruption to his activities as teacher and scholar was the period of service, October I, I918 to November 27, 19I9, in Army Intelligence work. A single volume of moderate size would hold all that Pro- fessor Kroesch ever wrote; but all of it, even the numerous reviews contributed to learned journals is solid stuff. If long years of undergraduate teaching, frequent ill-health, and onerous academic "chores" curtailed his output, that is something his American col- leagues will understand and regret. But they understand no less the sterling quality of everything he did and they know that future scholars must reckon with it. To his students Professor Kroesch was a scholarly and precise teacher, who demanded of them the same clarity of scholarship which he demanded of himself. To his colleagues in the University he was first of all the courteous and modest gentleman. His rela- tions with them, as with his students, were straightforward and without pretence. Everyone who knew him will miss him and the University will miss him, for of such men are universities made. JOSEPH BROWN PIKE 1866-I938 Joseph Brown Pike, Professor of Latin and Chairman of the Department of Latin in the University since I900 died November I, I938, at Palo Alto, California, a few weeks after the death of Mrs. Pike. All that he was and did is a part of the history of this institu- tion. He was born in Chicago January 22, 1866, received his pre- paratory education at St. Paul High School, St. Paul, Minnesota, graduated from the University of Minnesota in I890, and then, after a brief period spent at the Sorbonne, Paris, took his M.A. at this University in 1891. He became an instructor here in 1890 and Professor in 1900, retiring in 1934 as Professor Emeritus. Professor Pike was the author of papers which have appeared in classical journals, of several text-books which have been widely used, and of a volume of essays, Classical Studies and Sketches, which was published by the University Press in I930, a volume which bears eloquent testimony to his broad culture, his wide read- ing in Latin, French, and English literature, and to the clarity, conciseness, and charm of his prose style. The few years of his retirement from active service he had devoted to the translation of the famous philosophical medley, the Policratic11S of John of Salis- bury, which he lived to complete and to guide through the press, but did not see in its final form, a splendid volume issued by the University Press shortly after his death under the title, Frivolities of Courtiers and Footprillts of Philosophers. This book is a fitting memorial of a scholar and a gentleman and will make known to many a man whose natural modesty and reserve kept his light hidden from all but a few. In these days when many are uncertain of the direction of their lives and wavering in their allegiance to any definite course of thought or action, Professor Pike lived serenely, a Stoic sage in a modern world. His well-chosen library of two thousand volumes, which through the years had given sustenance to his spirit and food for his thought, he bequeathed to the University. Part of it will be housed, as he had wished, in the Arthur Upson Room, per- haps to inspire a choice spirit of the generations still to come to seek after the wisdom which he had made his own. JOHN ARNOLD URNER I895-1938 Dr. John Arnold Urner was born in Joliet, Montana, on Sep- tember 20, 1895. In 1919 he graduated with honors from the Uni- versity of Washington. He then entered the Medical School of the University of Minnesota and throughout the four-year curriculum, was first in his class. The Bachelor of Medicine degree was con- ferred upon him in 1923. He was made Doctor of Medicine in I924, after having served an internship at the Minneapolis General Hospital. In recognition of his high scholastic attainment he was elected to the Honor Medical Society, Alpha Omega Alpha. On January l, 1926, he commenced his service as a teaching fellow in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Minnesota. During this period he carried on an interesting and important study of "The Effect of Vitamin E deficiency upon intra- uterine development and the changes in the mammary gland of the albino rat." This was the title of his thesis submitted in 1929 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Ph.D. degree. The hltter was conferred upon him in the same year. On October 1 1929 he was appointed assistant professor, and three years later' associate professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the University of Minnesota. During this period and until his fatal illness he served full time at the Minneapolis General Hospital. Doctor Urner was a member of the American Medical Associa- tion. the American Colleg-e of Surgeons, and the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Doctor Urner made a number of valuable contributions to the science o_f obstet~ics ~nd gynecology. These concerned, in particular, the relatmn of v1tamms to pregnancy, and the improvement of anal- gesia during labor. He also reported important observations re- garding the diagnosis of premature separation of the placenta. Doctor Urner died on July 16, 1938, at the age of 42 years. He is survived by his wife, Marguerite. Those who knew and worked with Doctor Urner have strong memories of his kindliness and humanity. His tireless service to the patients of the Minneapolis General Hospital earned him the admiration and respect of all those who were in contact with him. He was recognized as a gifted clinical teacher, and those men who were fortunate enough to serve under him are ever mindful of his precepts. Respectfully submitted, Tremaine McDowell Marbury B. Ogle Dora V. Smith Dr. Cecil ]. Watson Committee on Necrology