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366: 471: 462:. Hutchins felt differently and would not be stampeded into this idea. Hutchins felt at the outset that the University's unique function was to furnish trained leadership for the nation. To make the University simply another military camp for privates was in his view a gross misuse of its potentials, and he resisted it. Hutchins believed with an ever-changing warfare that the students would be better served in engineering to help with the modern war, "whose weapons were applications of physical, chemical, mathematical, and engineering principles." 42: 439: 357:, the Regents at the University of Michigan decided to offer Hutchins the full-time appointment of President of the University of Michigan. The regents offered 3 years, but Hutchins wanted a 5-year appointment, so after a stormy meeting they agreed on a five-year appointment. However, after 5 years, Hutchins would stay on another five years bringing his time as president to a full ten years. 403:(1920). Though Hutchins may not have been on the forefront of the development of all the new buildings on campus, the way he was with the union and housing for women, his leadership in establishing an organized alumni organization helped to make much of the new growth possible. During Hutchins' tenure, the University received 130 private gifts, totaling $ 3,600,000 416:
to remedy this condition, and we expect soon to have a graduate school in the true sense of the word. There are men in many of the schools who ought to be pushed out into the world to do a man's work instead of hanging around the universities. A reorganization of the system is needed, and at Michigan
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Hutchins was very instrumental in strengthening the university's alumni association. As the first Michigan alumnus to serve as president of the university, Hutchins "wanted to reclaim them (alumni) by organization, to persuade them to maintain a continuing interest in the welfare of their university,
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and then was appointed instructor in rhetoric and history at Michigan for three years. While teaching, he simultaneously studied law. Though he never received a degree in law he took and passed the law bar and was certified to practice law in 1876. After practicing law in Mt. Clemens, Michigan with
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Hutchins was instrumental in the creation of a separate graduate school from the undergraduate school. He wanted it to be "tough" even if only half the students got in. On January 19, 1910, Hutchins made a speech to the New York University of Michigan Club which was published in the New Yorker; it
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The University saw great growth in his tenure as the student body grew from less than 5,000 to more than 9,000, the Alumni Association grew leaps and bounds, the faculty grew from 427 to 618, the formation of the graduate school, and with the help of the newly organized Alumni Association and their
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Hutchins twice served as acting president of the University of Michigan. His first appointment as acting president came in 1897 when current President Angell left to be Minister of Turkey. The second stint as acting president for Hutchins came in 1909 when President Angell resigned. Hutchins was to
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that, "by 1920, in addition to Newberry and Martha Cook, four small dormitories in converted houses had been provided, and the Betsey Barbour dormitory opened that year. About 350 women lived in sororities, but the great majority lived in a league house." Specifically the development of the Martha
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from 1895 to 1910. Hutchins Hall, the main classroom and administrative building of the law school, is named after him. During Hutchins time as the Dean, he raised the entrance requirements to the law school, as well the adoption of a complete three-year course in Law. Dean Hutchins believed the
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read, "many of these graduate schools work too hard to get students and too little for results. Some of them are not a credit to the country, and Michigan is not without fault of her own in this respect, but we are working at
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his father-in-law for eight years, he returned to Ann Arbor to teach law as the Jay Professor of Law. December 28, 1872 Hutchins married Mary Louise Crocker, together they would adopt one son, Harry C. Hutchins.
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Cook Building was due in large part to the great relationship Hutchins had with William W. Cook, who provided the financial contribution for this all female housing facility in honor of his mother, Martha.
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to advertise in their communities so as to attract the best new students, and to contribute financially toward the University development"
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Hutchins retired in 1920, taking the title of President Emeritus. He would live the next ten years up to his death in 1930 in Ann Arbor.
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we are trying to accomplish a renascence. I do not care if we have only thirty students in the school if we only have one real one."
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many wealthy donors, there was the addition of many new buildings. The most prized addition in Hutchins' eyes was that of the
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The University also saw considerable growth for women on campus during Hutchins' tenure. Ruth Bordin writes in her book
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Hutchins suddenly become ill on January 22, 1930, and died three days later at his home in Ann Arbor at the age of 82.
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serve until a new permanent president was found. After a year long search which included the courtship of
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The making of the University of Michigan: 1817 - 1992 ; 175th anniversaty edition
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Commencement, 1912: University President H.B. Hutchins and dignitaries walking across
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fraternity. After graduation he became the superintendent of schools in
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in 1871. While at the University of Michigan, he was a member of the
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The University of Michigan, an encyclopedic survey ..
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Peckham, Howard H. (1981). "Presidential Profiles".
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Harry Burns Hutchins and the University of Michigan
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Harry B. Hutchins

President
University of Michigan
James Burrill Angell
President
University of Michigan
James Burrill Angell
President
University of Michigan
James Burrill Angell
Marion LeRoy Burton
Lisbon, New Hampshire
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Alma mater
Tilton School
Wesleyan University
University of Michigan
BA
University of Michigan
Lisbon, New Hampshire
Tilton School
Wesleyan University
Connecticut
University of Michigan
Alpha Delta Phi
Owosso, Michigan
University of Michigan Law School
Woodrow Wilson

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