to act quickly upon conviction. Emphatic
in stating and enforcing his conclusions once they are reached, he is
always careful of others' opinions.

It is not yet the time nor have we the perspective to view adequately
President Hutchins' administration. It has been a period in Michigan's
history as distinct in most respects as those of his predecessors. While
he followed the academic traditions established in former
administrations he devoted himself particularly to the unification and
co-ordination of the University as a whole, to the establishment of the
necessary financial support on a firmer and more adequate basis, and to
the cultivation of more intimate relations with the alumni. Though his
influence in the academic life of the University has perhaps never been
so personal and compelling as that of his predecessors, largely because
the rapidly increasing numbers of students and Faculties alike make the
close relationship of an earlier era impossible, the University has not
only marched in the ways long established, but has grown and expanded
under his sympathetic guidance and with the momentum of her past, until
she has come at last to fill in, in great part, the slender lines of the
sketch made by President Tappan and the early fathers. This is no small
achievement.

The policy first inaugurated in President Angell's time of requiring a
combined course in the Literary College and the Medical School for all
medical students was extended during President Hutchins' time to the Law
School and the Homeopathic Medical School, while the course in the
College of Pharmacy was increased to three years and in the College of
Dentistry to four years, with an ever-increasing emphasis on the
desirability of preliminary work in the Literary College. These
measures, though warmly advocated by the respective Faculties, did not
come without opposition. The tendency of the time was unmistakable,
however, and the University has been strengthened accordingly. Other
significant actions taken during President Hutchins' administration were
the establishment of many special courses leading to degrees such as
Public Health, Aeronautical Engineering, and Municipal Administration,
and special curricula in Sanitary, Automobile, and Highway Engineering,
Fine Arts, and Business Administration. The special summer courses in
Library Methods were introduced just before he took office, and have
become an important part of the summer curriculum. I