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The Michigan Technic 144
With the resignation of President Hutch ins, which was accepted by the Board of Regents at a special meeting held March 12, we may assume the close of another period in the history of the University. For, as with his predecessors, the past ten years are bound to be associated with his name. It is a period upon which President Hutchins can look back with satisfaction and honest pride; for the record has been worthy, the achievement solid. It has been a period of growth in effectiveness and in numbers and material equipment as well. How much, a comparison with the Campus of 1909 will show.
More than that, the past ten years have been a period of coordination, of foundations laid for future development. Largely through his skillful presentation of the interests of the University to successive Legislatures as well as to the people of the commonwealth, the State has taken a new and practical interest in the University, as evidenced by the increasingly generous appropriations.
The alumni have been bound to the University as never before and they have been brought to see that even though Michigan's chief support is from the State, it is their responsibility and privilege to aid their Alma Mater in many ways impossible to the tax payers. The first of our own graduates to become President, this has been the first task which President Hutchins set himself. The Hill Auditorium, the Martha Cook Building, New berry Dormitory, the Betsy Barbour Dormitory, and the Michigan Union, to say nothing of scores of other benefactions, are examples of this new spirit on the part of the alumni which he has done so much to foster.
But President Hutchins' influence has not been solely directed toward material wel fare. He has brought the various departments of the University together into a well-rounded university; he has seen the addition of several years in the Literary College to the courses of practically all the Professional Schools, and he has steadily supported the increasing emphasis in the quality of instruction of the University.
President' Hutchins' great merit as an administrator has been his simplicity, his humanity, combined with a jealous care for the welfare of the University. He has guided the University well and wisely and with a kindly sympathy toward every one with whom the wide range of his duties has brought him into contact, which has com manded universal respect and affection, even from those who have on occasion disagreed with his policies.
The whole University body, faculty, students, and graduates will join with the Michigan Technic in a sincere and grateful acknowledgement of the debt Michigan owes to him and in heartfelt good wishes for him in the well earned vacation he plans to take. — The Michigan Alumnus.