TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 2964 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE TUESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1964 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAE~W! TWR.~ s XAx , lila IL' JU u President's Intricate Job Grows with Un iversity The job of University President'been unable to visualize. The world is a complex one. of automation and mass produc- It began in 1850 when the Board tion cannot help but have an in- of Regents conceded to the de- fluence on all aspects of modern mands of the faculty and created life and one of the chief jobs of a special post to handle the myriad the president is to keep the Uni- of jobs which, up until then, the versity from feeling too keenly faculty had been forced to assume teshyr ee on depeksonly in addition to their teaching. The the sharp edge of depersonalized first University president was Henry Philip Tappan and he held The role of University President his position from 1850 to 1863. is a double one. There are specific In the days when President duties which the office entails and Tappan first came to Ann Arbor, there are many more tasks which the University was a. church can be learned only through a oriented school deeply concerned knowledge and interpretation of with providing its students with the office's scope. The specific du- the best classical education pos- ties may in some case rank s sible. Things were calm and well ond to the ultimate effect of in- ordered, formal action taken by the chief President Tappan kept the Uni- executive. versity's affairs well ordered but The president is authorized by his strength lay in his ability to the Board of Regents to exercise disrupt the calmness of the Uni- "such general powers as are in- versity community and introduce herent in the -chief executie Fir vigorous and thoughtful discussion the protection of the nrerts of the goals the University should and the wise government of the be seeking to attain. He pushed University, the improvements of his school out into the fields of its standards and functions." Re- the sciences from its purely liberal gents Bylaw 2.01 states that he arts orientation and sought to in- "shall cooperate with the. Board crease the number of professors, by consulting it in advance, except buildings and courses. In 1850 the upon emergency and in making post of president called for leader- temporary appointments, when he ship and innovation. The situation shall exercise his sound discretion, is the same today. subject to confirmation of his acts New Problems by the Board." Today, University President Har- Close Cooperation lan H. Hatcher is faced with prob- The president and the Board of lems President Tappan would have, Regents work together closely. The 4J president chairs the monthly Re- gents mueetings, at which times he reports to the University and leads discussion on policy making deci- sions. He is an ex-officio chdirman of the University Senate and a mem- ber of each of the governing fac- ulties of the University. He testi- fies before the state Legislature in suport of the University's an- nual budget request. An under- standing relationship between the president and the Legislature can do a great deal to smooth the University's way at appropriations time. President Hatcher has consis- tently worked toward plans for putting the University in opera- tion on a year-round basis. At the January Regents meeting, he announced that state funds to make possible the addition of a full third semester was second only to faculty salaries on the University's priority advancing it from seventh in priority as listed in the original budget request sub- bitted to Gov. George Romney lantk September. Briefs Alums Along with.other University ad- ministrators, President Hatchaf has participated in in-depth brief- ings of key alumni and state legis- lators on the problems and pros- pects of the University. In a special program of this type conducted in Bay City last Feb- ruary aimed at promoting public awareness of the University's ex- penses, he cited coming enroll- ment pressures, pointing out that "We have to adjust to greater numbers and increased demands- there must be a new level of state support." Legislators present at the ses- sion indicated that the presenta- tion had been "enlightening and valuable." Efforts such as these, then, may have been instrumental in the Legislature's approval of the governor's appropriation re- quest for the University-which has made the scheduling of tri- mester operations possible. Notes Progress The Regents also specify that the president must deliver an an- nual state of the University ad- dress, detailing the progress the University has made in all the areas of its concern during the previous year. President Hatcher's last state of the University speech was concerned with the increasing enrollment and plans for the de- velopment of the cent:al campus area. He also discussed the ad- vantages of the proposed residen- tial college which will further growth in the liberal arts area of. the University-without sa-rificing; the benefits of connection with a1 large university. Although not outlined officially anywhere, an important part of, the job of governing an education- al institution of the University's. size is to be aware of trends in other parts of the country as well as other parts of the world. President Hatcher has travelled constantly during his tenure in office. He has renewed acquaint- ances with past University gradu- ates in all corners of the earth and he has brought friendship and warmth back to Ann Arbor from many lands. Attends Conference Just this summer, he visited West Germany to attend a series of conferences on higher education problems of that country. Along with 11 other delegates of the American Association of Univer- sities, President Hatcher met with educators representing the AAU's German counterpart at Bad Godesberg. Problems of expanding graduate schools and increased re- search de~pands were among the problems discussed. The delegates then visited West Berlin and Munich as well as the campuses of various other West German universities. Besides his regularly scheduled duties, conferences and meetings pop up suddenly anywhere from San Francisco to Chicago. All of these must be attended. One of the more interesting extra-curric- ular activities President Hatcher takes part in is the Council for Institutional Cooperation which includes the Big Ten universities and the University of Chicago. The CIC is working on a plan to pool each of the member univer- sity faculties and create a "com- mon market" of available pro- grams and faculty members. HARLAN HATCHER 'U' Chief Executives: a Look Backward By DIANE PIERSON Only nine men have held the office of president of the Univer- sity. Their deeds as chief execu- tive have been recorded in history books and their names grace many of the campus' most important landmarks from Angell Hall to Burton Tower. The University's first president, Henry Philip Tappan, was ap- pointed by the Regents in 1852. Previous to that the University had no full-time president. Tap- pan, a well-known educator and theologian, was greatly interested in the academic expansion of the University. Proposing that more classrooms and fewer dormitories be built, Tappan saw a museum erected on a site intended for dormitory expansion. Tappan, who spent many of his aarly years in Prussia, was seen as too worldly by the very con- servative clergy and faculty who dominated the University in those days. Although Tappan, who head- ed the University for 11 years, was popular with the students, his progressive ideas lead to his dis- missal. Tappan is remembered on cam- pus by the now-ancient red brick building which bears his name and houses the art history department. Michigamua, the all-campus sen- ior men's honorary, holds its an- nual diag initiation around the huge oak tree next to the Gen- eral Library which is also named for Tappan. Erastus Otis Haven; a Meth- odist minister and professor of English and Latin at the Univer- sity from 1852 to 1856, brought a feeling of strong religious toler- ance and non-sectarianism to the office of University president. Haven's appointment found the students demonstrating for the re- turn of Tappan, and morning chapel observed in Mason Hall. University biographer Kent Sag- andorph describes President Ha- ven as "a rather unfortunate fig- are, an able administrator, a cap- able teacher and a kind Christian gentleman. "In other circumstances he might have been selected as presi- dent of a small college on his merits and professional stature .. . He lacked the commanding per- sonality of a strong president, but in patient compromises, he usual- ly got what he wanted." When Haven fell into an a 7 gument between homeopaths and allopaths regarding medical edu- cation at the University, he re- signed suddenly. Frieze The University's third presi- dent held the position on three different occasions, but was nev- er actually appointed University president by the Regents. When Haven resigned, the Regents asked Latin Professor Henry Simmons Frieze to act as president until a successor could be found. But if President Frieze ever was concerned about this status, there is no record of it. "I won't be doing this much longer," he would say at regular intervals. "Pretty soon we'll have a regu- lar president, and I'll go back to my Latin classes. "In the meantime, let's. see what we ought to do about this prob- lem." Frieze begun his work by per- suading the state legislators to give the University $15,000 a year for four years, instead 'of only two years as promised in 1868. The faculty got their long-promised raises, and remarked at President Frieze's (he had a beautiful mane :f curly white hair and a snowy beard) resemblance to Santa Claus. In 1870 President Frieze ad- mitted the first woman, Madelon Louisa Stockwell, to the Univer- sity. Miss Stockwell, who gave her name to the first dormitory built on the Hill, passed the en- trance examination with flying ;olors-so much so that Frieze had the entrance examination abolish- Ad for qualified Michigan appli- cants. Frieze served again as the Uni- versity's chief executive in 1880- 82 and 1887-88, when it was nec- essary for his successor to be ab- sent from Ann Arbor. Presidents Haven and Frieze both have been remembered with buildings named after them. Angell The next University president, James Burrill Angell, held the po- sition for 38 years. The Angells moved to Ann Arbor in 1871 from New England where President An- gell was president of the Univer- sity of Vermont. The Angell administration saw many University firsts. President Angell started out by reminding friends and alumni that the Uni- versity could be great only if it -ad enough money. And he pointed gut that the University depended entirely on the .state for every cent-a state which, he implied, hadn't in the past . been any too reliable. Of course, the money poured in. He saw the introduction of football and baseball, he initiated a full-range of electives to stream- line the tedious undergraduate program, and he introduced the "faculty advisor" to "bring rea- son and method to the fantastic Welcome Students! ! DISTINCTIVE COLLEGIATE HAIRSTYLING For MEN- And Women- ! 7 Hairstylists * Air-Conditioned THE DASCOLA BARBERS Near Michigan Theatre schedules undergraduates dream up for themselves." In 1880, the first sorority, Kap- pa Alpha Theta, made its appear- ance on campus, where fraterni- ties had long enjoyed the absence of dormitories, and President Frieze (who was once again act- ing head of the University) found the fraternities somewhat intol- .rant of their sister societies. As he did when he admitted the first woman, however, Frieze had made it clear that sororities were just as welcome as fraternities (though he didn't say just how welcome that was), and sororities arrived for good. 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