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After the death of President Ernest DeWitt Burton late last May, Professors Billings, Tufts, Manly, Gale, Woodward and Laing of the University of Chicago knitted brows with Trustees Harold H. Swift (meats), Martin A. Ryerson (finance), Albert W. Sherer, William Scott Bond, Charles W. Gilkey, Thomas E. Donnelly, Robert L. Scott and Dr. Frank Billings, over the baffling question of Dr. Burton's successor. Every week they met, soon eliminating as unsuitable all prospects on the home campus, casting their eyes afield now upon this capable small-college administrator in the East, now upon that efficient personality...
...changes wrought in the college have weakened the old solidarity and unity of aim, they have let in light and air. They have given us a freedom of movement needed for further progress. May we not say of the extreme elective system what Edmond Sherer said of democracy; that it is but one stage in an irresistible march toward an unknown goal? Progress means change, and every time of growth is a transitional era; but in a peculiar degree the present state of the American college bears the marks of a period of transition. This is seen in the comparatively...
...Monthly thought its space could be devoted more profitably to something else. Still it is not probable that the omission is permanent, nor after all is it desirable that it shall be. The Book Notices are of greater value than usual. Mr. Wheeler, of the German Department, reviews Sherer's "History of German Literature," Mrs. F. C. Conybeare's translation. The other reviews are of Richard Grant White's "Studies in Shakespeare." Helen Jackson's "Zeph," and Warner's "Back Log Studies," by Messrs. Fullerton, Carpenter, and Leahy respectively...