Word: shailer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Ignoring his youth will be more than ever necessary for President Hutchins of Chicago. He will command educational machinery used by nearly 15,000 students. To him for decisions will come such world-famed professors as Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, Greek Scholar Paul Shorey, Physicist Albert Abraham Michelson, Theologian Shailer Mathews, Latinist Gordon Jennings Laing, English Littérateur Robert Morse Lovett. Physically the University of Chicago is among the hugest in the U. S. Buildings started last year included a Social Sciences Building, the Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital for Children, the George Herbert Jones Chemistry Building...
...SHAILER MATHEWS, 64, Chicago; Dean, University of Chicago Divinity School; director, religious work of Chautauqua Institution...
President Emeritus Harry Pratt Judson of the University of Chicago was there, and Dr. James H. Breasted, famed Egyptologist. Drs. Shailer Mathews and Theodore G. Scares of the Chicago University divinity school, and Maurice L. Goodkind of the medical school, were there. So were Lessing Rosenthal, Dr. Louis Mann, Harold H. Swift and other important Chicago south-siders-all at the home of Julius Rosenwald, philanthropist, for a party as distinguished as it was unusual...
Personnel. Every four years, the Council elects a President. Dean Shailer Mathews (1912-16), original theologian and famed University of Chicago educator, was representative of the worth which religious thinkers have attached to the Council. Frank Mason North (1916-20), Secretary of a Mission Board, was representative of the unity urge which has come from American missionaries abroad. Robert E. Speer (1920-24), also Secretary of a Mission Board, is regarded as one of the greatest churchmen and pulpit orators of this quarter century. He is perhaps most representative of the church-going public. But most of the Council...