THE UNIVERSITY OFCHICAGO TOECOEPJanuary 20, 1978 ISSN 0362-4706 An Official Publication Volume XII, Number 1CONTENTSREPORTS OF VISITING COMMITTEES1 — -Library2 — Department of Music3 — Visual Arts4 — Committee on Public Policy Studies5 — Oriental Institute5 — College6 THE 365TH CONVOCATION ADDRESS: "THE CULTIVATION OFEXCELLENCE"— Charles B. Huggins, M.D.8 SUMMARY OF THE 365TH CONVOCATIONMEMORIAL TRIBUTES: FAIRFAX M. CONE9 — Gardner H. Stern10 —Arthur W, Schultz10 —Edward H. LeviTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGOFOUNDED BY JOHN D. ROCKEFELLERTHE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO RECORDREPORT OF THE VISITING COMMITTEETO THE LIBRARYThis represents my first report as chairman of theVisiting Committee to the Library. Our committeeis made up of interested, committed individuals.Some have professional relationships and responsibilities to libraries; others have a long interestand concern with the University generally andmore specifically with the heart of the University,the Joseph Regenstein Library. There are alumniof the University, trustees, and trustee wivesamong our membership. The group is representative as to age and sex.It was at the fall meeting that I presided for thefirst time as chairman of the committee. The meeting was well attended. Previously, members hadbeen asked to indicate a preference for serving onone of two permanent committees — the Collections Committee or the Development Committee.To the first committee a presentation was made on"The Intellectual and Technical Aspects ofCataloging." The Development Committee hearda report of progress and plans for the future of thelibrary.As a result of discussion among members of theDevelopment Committee, a Library Task Forcewas recruited. The specific charge to the memberswas to seek funds, both for endowment and forexpendable purposes, to augment the bookbudget. At the beginning of fiscal year 1977/78, TheUniversity of Chicago received from an anonymous donor a gift of $1,000,000 in endowmentfunds to be used to match other gifts of endowmentfunds for acquisitions by Regenstein Library. As aconsequence of this and the work of the task force,we expect to see good results very soon.The meeting closed with a report from the director of the University library on the proposedmerger with the John Crerar Library. There aremany reasons to conclude that it would be to theadvantage of both institutions to merge the twocollections on the University's campus. The resulting collections in the sciences might well bethe finest in the country, and those in business andin technology would continue to be superlative.The facts of library growth are such that futuredevelopment of research libraries must take place in an atmosphere of cooperative purchasing andcollecting. The University of Chicago campuswould become a resource center of excellence.The Library Board, which is comprised of faculty members appointed by President Wilson andwhich provides a bridge between the faculty andthe library, joined us for our spring meeting. Thepresident of the Library Board, Charles Wegener,Howard L. Willett Professor in the College, addressed the members of the visiting committee on4 'An Immense Influence" — his personal adventures in the libraries of The University of Chicago.It was a witty and provocative presentation designed to alert the listener to the variety of intellectual exercises he may become enmeshed inthrough browsing the shelves of a major researchlibrary.The general issues of fund raising and needsalmost always come to the fore when the library isdiscussed. The great research library is the laboratory of thought. The research library is most important because of the materials it collects indepth and makes available to scholars and faculty.This process of collection and dissemination is acostly one but one that must be continued in orderto continue the education and programs which arethe hallmark of The University of Chicago. As thelibrary has no specific alumni and thus is notnamed in the University's annual giving appeals,it is somewhat difficult to identify the groups towhich we should turn for support. Certainly thefast-growing Library Society, a support group authorized and aided by the visiting committee, provides a base for much-needed additional financialsupport.The library has been dealing with difficult problems relative to the budget, decreased staff, increasing publication of materials in new disciplines, and the data management project. The library is not simply acceding to necessities; it isendeavoring to shape them to serve the purposesof the University of which it is a central part. TheVisiting Committee to the Library hopes to provide support and encouragement to achieve thisgoal.Gaylord DonnelleyChairmanREPORT OF THE VISITING COMMITTEETO THE DEPARTMENT OF MUSICAugust 5, 1977The Visiting Committee to the Department ofMusic was formed in the fall of 1971 when it wasrecognized that the department, ranked one of thetop five in the country by the American Councilon Education, had yet to have such a committee.It initially comprised twenty-three members including the chairman. Over half the memberswere professionally in music: nine came from theranks of prominent artists and administrators in ornear Chicago, five from music departmentselsewhere in the United States. The committeehas since grown to thirty-five members.The committee's duties, as outlined by Professor Howard M. Brown, then chairman of thedepartment, combined the University's bylawsand the secretary of the board's statement of purposes and functions of visiting committees withBrown's own views on what a visiting committeeshould do. The committee should: 1) advise thedean on the effectiveness of the work of the Department of Music; 2) bring new ideas and freshviewpoints to the department, advise its memberson matters both curricular and extracurricular; 3)help bring to the attention of the people ofChicago and the country the work being done bythe department; 4) serve as liaison between the department and related professions or industries,educational foundations, and individuals nototherwise connected with the University; and 5)help raise funds to support the activities of thedepartment.In the six years since its formation the committee has met sixteen times, including a meeting inthe fall and spring of each academic year. In1971-73 the committee paid particular attention toactivities within the department. From the start,the committee's agenda set a pattern of "visiting"that gave members ample opportunity not only tosample curricular and extracurricular activitiesbut also to talk formally and casually with administrators, faculty members, students, and evensecretaries. Meetings were marked both by an enthusiasm to share on the part of faculty and students and by a high level of candor, and wereparticularly helpful in giving committee membersa feeling for the day-to-day operations within thedepartment, a sense of the department's vitality,and ultimately an awareness of its needs. Twomeetings were designed to focus on two "high- profile" organizations having particular needs: themusic library, on which the department's potential for research ultimately depends, and the Contemporary Chamber Players, a professional grouprepresenting the University in a unique waythroughout the country by means of its concertsand recordings. Two meetings were devoted todiscussing two primary concerns of the department. One had as its topic a presentation, by arepresentative of the University's department ofPhysical Planning and Construction, of the newarts complex and the place of a new music building within that complex; the other, a "shoppinglist" of crucial items large and small submitted tothe committee by the department chairman. Thecommittee considered ways to raise money, including a suggestion by one of its members that itassist the department in setting up a "Friends ofMusic" program, then concluded that the important thing was to identify and publicize needs andto find money for items — such as the "playthrough" room in Regenstein Library — for whichthe committee felt it could raise money without aformal campaign.The department's achievements, its power toattract students, and its most pressing needs arepersuasively summed up in the brochure, "Musicat The University of Chicago," published in fall1975. It will suffice to say here that the facultyremains "the most decorated music faculty in thecountry in terms of awards and scholarlyachievement" as its present chairman, RobertMarshall (himself a foremost Bach scholar), put it.However, replacements are needed for two distinguished senior professors who have left thefaculty, Grosvenor Cooper and Leonard Meyer.The enrollment of graduate students quadrupledbetween 1971 and 1975. This speaks to the vitalityof the department as a graduate faculty. There isstill a question in the minds of some on the committee whether the undergraduate program hasbeen equally successful, though the problem (ifthere is one) probably lies with College regulations governing the amount and nature of work astudent can take in music rather than with thedepartment's undergraduate program. The committee looks forward to learning more about thenew undergraduate curriculum the department introduced in fall 1975 which offers greater varietyand flexibility.Beginning in March 1974 the committee extended its purview, first by providing an occasionfor a symposium on "The Contemporary Composer and his Music: Problems and Challenges,"which actively involved two of its members, Mil-2ton Babbitt and Paul Fromm, then by collaborating with the department in presenting a series offour public lectures entitled, "The Art of the Conductor." This highly successful series, which generated considerable interest throughout the University community and in the Chicago press, wasmade possible by the generosity of four membersof the committee: Bruno Bartoletti, BennyGoodman, Margaret Hillis, and Sir Georg Solti.The committee now faces the challenge of supporting the University's decision to give highpriority to music facilities in its current "Campaign for Chicago." Mr. George A. Ranney,Chairman of the campaign, discussed the futureplans of the department at the committee's October 1975 meeting. In addition to facilities, thereis the continuing need to support the department'sprogram. The committee has helped meet immediate needs by providing funds for the "playthrough" room and enlargement of the music seminar room in Regenstein Library to accommodatethe ever increasing number of graduate students.The committee helped organize and sponsor in1975/76 and 1976/77 a departmental lecture serieswhich brought to campus distinguished musicalscholars to enrich the graduate programs; similarly it underwrote an Elizabethan EnterpriseWorkshop. Another program sponsored by thecommittee is establishing an archive ofmemorabilia and recordings representative of the"Chicago School of Jazz."At the same time the committee must continueits work as an advisory group. To this end it hasinitiated a series of meetings designed to study, inmore depth, specific aspects of the department'sprogram, beginning in February 1976 with the Collegium Musicum directed by Professor HowardM. Brown.Perhaps the ultimate challenge faced by thecommittee is the task of meeting simultaneouslyall the Obligations described in the original statement of its functions. Up to now it has tended todeal with these obligations one-by-one, firstfunctioning as an advisory body, then serving as asponsoring organization of special events to widenthe department's sphere of influence. Now that itfaces the additional task of raising funds, it mustfind both the strength and the sagacity to meet thisnew obligation without diminishing its capacity to"visit" — to give advice, to bring in new ideas andfresh viewpoints, and to lend a sympathetic ear tothe concerns of everyone in the department. Thesolution, quite possibly, is to form more subcommittees, and the chairman is confident that the committee can now apportion itself thus withoutweakening its integrity.Supplemental Report on 1976/77 ActivitiesThe visiting committee met three times during the1976/77 academic year. In October the chairmanof the department, Robert Marshall, gave a program on Bach, and Richard Wang explained thepresent status of the Chicago Jazz Archive. Mr.Wang, who is affiliated with the Department ofMusic at the University of Illinois Circle Campus,is consultant to the visiting committee on theChicago Jazz Archive. The archive is progressingnicely, but its progress is of course dependent onfunds which the visiting committee must raise.Our second program was an evening event incooperation with the Women's Board and consisted of a dinner followed by a demonstration andperformance by Edward Mondello on the enlargedand renovated Rockefeller Chapel organ.The final program of the year was a visit to thedepartment. The committee was given the opportunity of observing three professors of the department in action on the undergraduate as well asthe graduate level. I consider this type of programto be of great value for the committee and suggestthat it might be a good idea in the future to letmembers express their views and impressions,and possibly suggestions, in camera following thevisits.Mrs. J. Harris WardChairmanREPORT OF THE VISITING COMMITTEEON THE VISUAL ARTSAugust 17, 1977The first meeting of the Visiting Committee on theVisual Arts Under my chairmanship was held inthe spring of 1976 and consisted of a general review of the function of the David and AlfredSmart Gallery by Edward A. Maser and a discussion of the Midway Studios by Thomas Mapp.Then there came a brief interregnum with thedeparture of the department's chairman and the3appointment of Charles E. Cohen to replace him.Our meeting in the fall of 1976 was the occasionof a talk by Stanley Marcus whom I had come toknow when we both served on the Board of theAmerican Federation of Arts. Mr. Marcus is a collector and has been an important factor in themuseums in Dallas and Houston. President andMrs. Wilson attended, as did James Alsdorf,President of the Art Institute. Mr. Marcus provedan engaging speaker.In the spring of 1977 our meeting was devotedto a talk by Pramod Chandra, a distinguishedscholar of our own University, on "The ClevelandTuti-nama Manuscripts and the Origin of MughalPainting." Mr. Chandra was a visiting professor atHarvard at the time, and a member of the visitingcommittee defrayed his expenses to come for ourmeeting.Before Mr. Chandra's talk, the chairman of thedepartment spoke to the committee on the needfor funds for the purchase of art books. Thebudget for such purchases had been seriously curtailed. A modest fund-raising campaign was approved and resulted in contributions of $4,300from the committee plus $500 from the alumni.Looking ahead, we are scheduled to hear anaddress by H. W. Janson, Professor of Fine Artsat New York University and a member of ourcommittee. He is the author of a volume widelyused in colleges, History of Art: A Survey of theMajo r Visual A rts .In the winter quarter, we have scheduled a talkby an art dealer, also a member of our committee,Allan Frumkin.Earle LudginChairmanREPORT OF THE VISITING COMMITTEETO THE COMMITTEE ONPUBLIC POLICY STUDIESAugust 18, 1977The first year of any new undertaking is generallyconsidered to be critical in setting the tone andposture which will be a part of the enterprise forseveral years to come. During this first year of the Committee on Public Policy Studies, we havemade a strong effort to establish our visitingcommittee as an active and integral part of thepublic policy program. The visiting committeemembers are drawn from the corporate world andfrom the public sector. Based on the first year'sexperience, it is apparent that we can expect theircontinued active involvement.The Visiting Committee to the Committee onPublic Policy Studies has been involved in threemajor activities during the 1976/77 academic year.On November 10, 1976, the inaugural dinner ofthe public policy committee was held in Hutchinson Commons. Approximately 120 persons, including students, faculty, members of the University administration, and members of the visitingcommittee attended the dinner and heard remarksof Dean Don K. Price of the John F. KennedySchool of Government at Harvard University.The second major activity was the visitingcommittee's first regular meeting of its own. Thismeeting was held on January 20, 1977 in Wieboldt301, the new offices of the public policy committee. The meeting included a discussion with faculty and students about the progress of the program to date, including comments on the currentcurriculum and the students' views of the program.The third major activity of the visiting committee was a series of small dinners given in the homeof the chairman. These informal occasions provided an opportunity for members of the visitingcommittee to become more personally acquaintedwith the public policy program and with the members of the faculty and students.We are very pleased that the visiting committee' s program for this year could progress fromthe more formal inaugural dinner to its own meeting and discussion to the more personal acquaintance with the public policy program which thechairman's dinners provided. We hope that duringthe 1977/78 academic year we can continue thecommittee's involvement in the public policy program and can seek to include the committee'smembers more actively in the program itself. Themembers are enthusiastic about how the programhas started this year and about the quality and thecontent of the students. We hope that next yearwe can continue to build on this enthusiasm of thecommittee's support of the program.Sydney Stein, Jr.Chairman4REPORT OF THE VISITING COMMITTEETO THE ORIENTAL INSTITUTEDuring the 1976/77 academic year, the visitingcommittee assisted the Institute in several ways.The membership subcommittee (Albert Haas,William Roberts, Roderick and Marjorie Webster)actively planned a continuing membership expansion drive, members' tours to Egypt, and eveningclasses for members. With the assistance of thissubcommittee, the number of lay members in theInstitute had risen from 692 in July 1973 to 2,775 inAugust 1977.In April, the visiting committee, in conjunctionwith the Women's Boards of the University and ofthe Field Museum, cosponsored the official preview dinner for the "Treasures of Tutankhamen"exhibit at the Field Museum. The committee alsoorganized and underwrote all expenses for a fund-raising dinner on the occasion of the opening ofREPORT OF THE VISITINGCOMMITTEE TO THE COLLEGESeptember 28, 1977In this, my last report as chairman of the VisitingCommittee to the College, I would like to dealwith the status of the College as it relates to theUniversity and to its peers in undergraduate education, in order to stress the need for enhancingthe reputation and public profile of the College.With regard to the long-term posture of the College relative to the University, there is first thematter of balance. Even in the mid-30s when I wasan undergraduate at the College, The Universityof Chicago was known more for its graduate thanits undergraduate school, despite participation inBig Ten athletics and other accoutrements of IvyLeague undergraduate life. This imbalance increased in the latter Hutchins years, and theneighborhood problems resulted in decreased enrollment and recognition of The University ofChicago as the place to send outstanding youngmen and women. During this period, fewer andfewer children of prewar undergraduates attended the new Mesopotamian gallery in the Institutemuseum in June.Since January 1976 the committee has eitherraised or donated more than $200,000 for Instituteprojects. It has provided $160,500 in matchingfunds for a National Endowment for theHumanities grant to the Assyrian dictionary andraised 75 percent of the money necessary to builda climate-controlled storage chamber for ancientmetal objects (matching a National Endowmentfor the Arts grant). Twenty-five thousand dollarshas been contributed to set up a fund for publication of the Institute's Hittite dictionary.Additional money has also been raised for otherpublications and for archeological expeditions.The major project of the visiting committee forthe coming year will be to help in the reorganization of the Oriental Institute Museum.Margaret B. CameronChairmanthe College, removing a solid base for admissionsand for the perpetuity of interests, financial andotherwise, in the well-being of both the Collegeand the University at large.Thus the imbalance with the distinguishedgraduate school tended to grow and the reputationof the College to shrink in the undergraduate field,so that, compared with the other great universitiesin the United States and in the world, Chicago'sundergraduate profile became more and more disadvantaged.It would seem, therefore, that the Universityhas both the long-term and short-term job of enhancing the reputation and profile of the Collegeso that it can compete as a balanced seat of learning with Harvard, Stanford, and the rest. President Wilson's emphasis on upgrading facilities hasbeen most important and the resulting accomplishments impressive. This upgrading must continue in the long-term interest of the undergraduate arm of our University.Fortunately, in the minds of the visiting committee, the long-term and short-term goals can beachieved concurrently by identifying and actingupon the needs of the College as a separate anddistinct entity, circumstance, and problem. Soemerges the visiting committee's strong sugges-5tion for developing a strategy to promote the public image of the College, as distinct from the University. The target must not be forgotten— that ofobtaining a higher quantity and an increasinglyhigh quality of young men and women to the student body of the College. The methods of doingthis are straightforward and known, but putting itall together is a job that must be done. It shouldrequire professional leadership and seed money todevelop the different areas. To date there has notbeen administrative leadership in this function.The visiting committee's major expression andemphasis is this: to properly motivate high schoolseniors in greater numbers and in increasinglyhigh quality to matriculate at the College, astrenuous public relations program for the Collegemust be initiated in all the areas necessary tocreate this result. A program must be "merchandised" or framed in such a manner that it willharness the specific influences on the prospectivehigh school seniors to our campus. Fortunately, the College is a fine "product," and the job is toinculcate its outstanding attributes in the mindsnot only of the candidate seniors, but the parents,high school advisers, teachers, and otherinfluences... Such a program has many ramifications as toscope, money, personnel, and all the other factorsinvolved in trying to create a more favorableprofile of the University to the prospective student.The visiting committee is and has been trying toenunciate this need and will take a great interest inany tangible, logical program toward fulfillment. Itwould certainly seem that the new chairman of thevisiting committee, Mr. Arthur W. Schultz, isideally suited to assist in forwarding these objectives.Robert C. UptonChairmanTHE 365TH CONVOCATION ADDRESS:THE CULTIVATION OF EXCELLENCEBy CHARLES B. HUGGINS, M.D.November 14, 1977The pearl of the day is taken from the gospel according to St. Luke, the blessed physician:For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall bemuch required:And to whom men have committed much, of him theywill ask the more. [Luke 12: 48]This is a felicitous occasion: the festival ofThanksgiving is upon us. The University ofChicago gives special thanks: for the lives of somany fine men and women who have served herwithout stint; for a half century of "a House calledBillings" on the beautiful campus of the University, where those who are sick in body and mindare cared for and where the "Quiet Art" of research is courted ardently; for the christening oftwo new hospital facilities: the Margaret Hoover Fay and William E. Fay, Jr. Brain Research Institute; the Clarence C. Reed Surgery Center.Billings Hospital was the gift of the family,Billings, in honor of a patriarch, A. M. Billings(1814-1897). In fifty years Albert Merritt BillingsHospital (AMBH) has ministered unto a millionsick folk. Thousands of medical students havebeen exposed to excellence in the medical sciences; hundreds of embryo biochemists, hopefulpathologists, tyro physiologists, and other youngscientists have been taught and received the Doctorate of Philosophy in "the House of Billings."Through the benefaction of his family, A. M.Billings, financier, born one year before Waterloo,will be remembered through the ages as AlbertMerritt Billings, patron of scholarship, friend ofman. Donors to the University perform a serviceto humanity which is impossible to overemphasize.6The spirit of The University of Chicago is adeep and far-reaching commitment to excellencein enquiry. It is a stimulus; it furnishes esprit decorps.Character is the sire of excellence. The highaccomplishments of mankind are achieved exclusively by men and women of noble character whodo nothing mean, small, or degrading. They givemore than they take. Everything human, which isgood and fine, derives from character — a moralforce.In the year of our Lord 1892, on Saturday, 1October, the work of The University of Chicagobegan. It had been determined that the facultyshould be the world's most eminent scholars, provided that they were young. It was decided toforego opening exercises but in their initial meeting students and teachers alike had the sense ofrendezvous with destiny.The University of Chicago is the lengthenedshadow of William Rainey Harper (1856-1906), thefirst president, whose age was thirty-six when theUniversity opened. While the University, age oneyear, was still in swaddling clothes, PresidentHarper wrote: "From the inception of the enterprise those connected with it were filled with anambition to organize a work which, in the courseof time, should not be surpassed anywhere. It isproposed in this institution to make the work ofinvestigation primary, the work of giving instruction secondary." This is the essence of The University of Chicago which remaineth. Mr. Harpersowed the seeds of excellence for colleagues andsuccessors to cultivate.And it came to pass that the clinical professorsof America in every medical college were for themost part private practitioners of medicine: true,the most famous medical doctors in the cities, butnot specially competent in medical education.These physicians were in great demand in community service and they were incredibly busy andhighly successful. There was little time or inclination for original study; only the most superficialsorts of investigation were carried out. It was saidthat those who cure do not know, and that thosewho know cannot cure (F. Sauerbruch). PresidentHarper quickly saw the spots of decay in thetapestry of medicine. Long-range and elaborateplans were made to build a new school ofmedicine on the grounds of The University ofChicago in contiguity with the science departments: for nothing cements like brick and mortar(H. G. Weiskotten).With the completion of AMBH, the administration entrusted the medical school to the Division of Biological Sciences with the implication: "Ourfine hospital is ready; it embodies the hopes andprayers of many people; with thoughtfulness anddevotion of your young physicians and surgeonsthe third great revolution in medical education inAmerica will be underway. Gentlemen, do with itas you will."In the year of our University thirty-five, onSaturday, 1 October 1927, the work of AMBHbegan; classes met and some methods of procedure were explained; work was assigned; whitecoat, stethoscope, and reflex hammer were purchased. The new school was launched; it wasunderway.AMBH was the creation of young men in ayoung university singing in the West; everywherethe pioneer spirit of a new medical school, full ofenergy, full of confidence, sure that it would succeed, certain that it would be great.Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,But to be young was very heaven![Wordsworth. The Prelude, Book XI]Two young men planned the intellectual life ofAMBH; they were wise and full of enthusiasm,the god within, which drives the world. It is filialpiety to acknowledge my debt to them.F. C. McLean (1888-1968), Professor ofMedicine, age thirty-nine, made many revolutionary and key contributions: 1) he selectedone of the most brilliant groups of young professors of medicine ever assembled in any department; 2) in full flower, medical research isbiochemistry applied to functional pathology inliving animals; 3) the full-time system of employment wherein remuneration does not depend onthe number of office calls; 4) an abundance of well-equipped research laboratories for basic investigation in close proximity to the wards.Dallas B. Phemister (1882-1951), Professor ofSurgery, age forty -five, had remarkable qualitiesof scholarship which had a profound influence onacademic surgery worldwide. He possessed absolute honesty and sterling integrity. He was fascinated by the surgical art. He adored discovery andinnovation. His philosophy was Confucian: theaim of cultivated man is the attainment of excellence in life, in work. He possessed the friendship,respect, and trust of the world's most eminentsurgeons. He lived for his work-circle of youngmen whom he regarded as more important thanhimself. Throughout the world the "PhemisterSchool" was greatly envied and widely copied asa model of academic surgery at its best. At 8:05each morning, seven days each week, Professor7Phemister would ask his young people, "Whathave you discovered today?" For us it was a spurto work harder and more thoughtfully.What are the rules for discovery? I suspectthere are none. I guess that Einstein and Mozart,Michelangelo and Shakespeare themselves did notunderstand the process of creativity or what mystique possessed them during their sublime creative moments.One works along at the lab bench without hasteand without rest. Time has no meaning; every daysomething will be done, something will be foundout. It is total commitment to the task at hand. Itrequires Spartan self-discipline. These are happydays, one following another hopefully withoutend, so great is the delight of discovery.Always, the students are present — not many ofthem because, with Paul Ehrlich, I believe thatgreat creative things do not emerge with too manypigeons flying about the room. The students arenecessary. Discussion is useful in originating newideas and in bringing out the strength and weakness of the protocol. Both the eye and the ear areuseful in designing the great plan and, at the end ofthe experiment, in admiration of elegant results.The student provides zing: he has that great self-confidence and energy of youth; and always thereis the carrot, never the stick.In the biological sciences, research is the"Quiet Art," a cottage industry done in the stoawhere one can work with his pupils in serenityten-plus hours a day with an abiding faith that theworld's most vexatious medical problems canhere be solved and very soon.Science is not cold and unfeeling. In scientificinvestigation one becomes emotionally containedin his problem. Head, heart, and hand: the threeH's of experimentation all are involved in creativity in the medical sciences, and the combinationenables us to recognize a solvable problem. Science is ruled by idea and technique which arewelded to form a wheel which revolves and gainsmomentum. Activity arouses idea which, in turn,begets technique. With blood on my hands I candiscover; seated at my desk I have no chance.Progress in science is progress in methods. This isthe philosophy of activism which governs science.Ours is being designated the age of the second-rate. Is it true? What about all this mention aboutdiscovery? Is it language alone, or is there something substantive about it? It is the latter: scienceis flourishing as never in history. One places anorder for an atomic bomb. One buys a ticket to themoon. American man, because of his disinclination to walk, takes along a moon buggy. In the medical sciences astounding triumphs arereported with such velocity that they are taken forgranted. Thanks to the virologists, two drops ofattenuated vaccine given to a child on a lump ofsugar eliminate the great crippler, poliomyelitis.The tuberculosis sanitaria are closed and for sale.The human life span has been lengthened by twodecades. Some of the blind are enabled to seeagain by corneal transplants. Pneumonia, the captain of the men of death, has been conquered byantibiotics. Malaria is gone thanks to DDT. All ofthese achievements come from the "Quiet Art,"often to be published on the front pages of ourfinest newspapers. With pride, we can say thatthis is the age of science. Science is the redemption of man in the age of the shoddy.Dr. Charles B. Hug gins is the William B. OgdenDistinguished Service Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Ben May Laboratory forCancer Research, Division of the Biological Sciences and The Pritzker School of Medicine.SUMMARY OF THE 365THCONVOCATIONThe 365th convocation was held on Monday, November 14, 1977, in Rockefeller Memorial Chapel.John T. Wilson, President of the University, presided.Seven honorary degrees were conferred. Recipients of Doctor of Science degrees were: RobertM. Chanock, Chief of Laboratory of InfectiousDiseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health; DonWayne Fawcett, Hersey Professor of Anatomyand the James Stillman Professor of ComparativeAnatomy, Harvard University; Roger Guillemin,Professor and Chairman, Laboratory forNeuroendocrinology, Salk Institute; Eugene Patrick Kennedy, Hamilton Kuhn Professor ofBiological Chemistry, Harvard University;Stephen W. Kuffler, John Franklin Enders University Professor, Harvard University; NormanEdward Shumway, Francis and Charles D. FieldProfessor and Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, Stanford University; andErnest Winocour, Professor and Chairman, Department of Virology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.8Dr. Charles B. Huggins, William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus and Director Emeritus of the Ben May Laboratory forCancer Research, Division of the Biological Sciences and The Pritzker School of Medicine,delivered the convocation address, entitled "TheCultivation of Excellence."A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE:FAIRFAX M. CONE,1903-1977By Gardner H. SternI'd like to use my few minutes here as a nostalgiatrip, and my remarks are of an anecdotal nature:the way I perceived Fairfax. His endless accomplishments are listed and told elsewhere, and arealready a matter of record.Our friendship began early on in his Chicagoera. We were drawn together in community fundwork, prodded into action by Ed Ryerson, nodoubt. As other efforts were needed in differentareas pro bono publico, we found ourselvesshoulder to shoulder working in the vineyards. Itdidn't take Fax long to rise to the top in anythingthat caught his interest; hence, the long list ofleadership roles he filled.We both became fellow trustees of The University of Chicago in 1950, and here again his talentfor leadership came to the fore, he becomingchairman of the board in 1963 and continuing tillhis departure west in 1970. Some of my fondestrecollections of Fax were during our early days astrustees. When we first came aboard, we were realnovices in a group of stalwarts, including suchwise and truly great men as Laird Bell, EdwardRyerson, Glen Lloyd, Harold Swift, Ned Brown,and Dutch Smith, and others of equal prominence.We met once or twice a year out at Uncle Harold' sestate in Lakeside for a long weekend, where staffand trustees considered the needs of the University and how best they could be met. These wereinspiring gatherings, especially for the newerboard members. I was fortunate in being paired with Fax to share the small but elegant guesthouse, and it was there in the late evenings whenthe business sessions were over and the big houselong since dark, that I really got to know Fax well.Over a couple of Scotches we discussed everything under the sun including our responsibilitiesto the University and could we possibly fulfillthem as our elders did? Again, obviously Fairfaxdid. We talked sports, travel, history, our mutualfriends, and a lot more, but Fax was at his bestand happiest when he got around to telling meabout the two girls in his life: Gertrude and Mary.He glowed when he spoke of them, and his devotion to them was well above the ordinary, and itcame through loud and clear. He loved tellingwhat Mary was doing and saying — how absolutelyphenomenal she was — how pretty, bright, cheerful, humorous. And do you know, he was absolutely right; and she still is! I found then whenFairfax talked, I would do well to listen, and I didgladly.One of his most outstanding qualities was hissense of humor, always gentle and never at anyone's expense. An example I've remembered andtreasured still makes me chuckle when I recall it,even though I was the butt. In my early and moreactive years, I took my sons on trips around theworld as a graduation present. I left my itinerarywith those from whom I hoped to receive an occasional card. Fax never missed. At every majorstop there was a postcard awaiting me — alwayswith pictures of Chicago scenes — Comiskey Park,the Wrigley Building, the Fourth PresbyterianChurch, Monroe Harbor, Field Museum, and thezoo. Each was peculiarly fitting to the city I hadreached. Each carried the message that Chicago,too, had fine institutions, beautiful culturaledifices, and other points of interest, so why had Igone so far away? He even went so far as to include a card depicting the Chez Paree Adorables,which was waiting in Bali.And so, at this final moment, I think I speak forhis host of friends and for thousands of Chica-goans who never knew him but benefitted from hishaving passed our way, when I say: ave atquevale.Gardner H. Stern is Chairman of the FinanceCommittee, Hillman's Inc.; Life Trustee of theUniversity; Chairman of the Visiting Committeeto the Division of the Humanities; and member ofthe Visiting Committee to the Oriental Institute.A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE:FAIRFAX M. CONE,1903-1977By Arthur W. SchultzMy remarks are directed to Gertrude.All of us here today from Foote, Cone and Beld-ing learned our business from Fairfax. He was ourleader, our teacher, and in many ways, our conscience. And while he is no longer with us, wecontinue to feel his presence every day. Let meexplain.Hanging on my wall, carried in the book JohnO'Toole wrote recently on our advertising philosophy, and to be found in the offices of any numberof our copywriters and art directors, are Fax'srules for making good advertising. When calledupon to judge the advertising we take to ourclients, I submit our work to the test of thesestandards to be assured that it is good enough.But this, one might expect. After all, Faxlearned this craft from the master, Albert Lasker,who, incidentally, also was a trustee of the University. And he practiced it for over forty years.We would be foolish not to be guided by this greatexperience.So let me turn to other areas where Fairfax'sinfluence may be of even larger importance. Hetaught us by word and example how important itwas to work only for what he called "goodclients." He refused to solicit the advertising forany company whose management he didn't respect. And in the few cases where he was misled,he quickly disengaged us from those companies.Therefore, it should not be surprising that onlylast week, after two meetings with one of thelargest advertisers in America, we concluded thatwe did not want to work for them; and so, withdrew from the competition. Indeed, they weresurprised for they could not imagine any advertising agency unwilling to work by their standards.One of our senior people recently remembereda personal anecdote of how he was terminatedyears ago by FCB for refusing to make a thirdmove from California to New York for personalreasons. (He has since returned to us.) That veryday, he received a telephone call from Fax sayingthat he understood and for this person not toworry about a thing — he could keep his office andwould remain on the payroll for as long as it tookhim to find another job, which turned out to be ayear and a half. To this day, we try to emulate thatunderstanding and compassion for our fellow em ployees who for one reason or another havedifficult things happen to them.Now, when you add these characteristics together, it means that we will never be the largestadvertising agency in the world, or the mostprofitable. But we hope we will be a company inwhich each of us may take pride and in which wefeel the comfort of working with principles that wehave come to understand and value.Finally, Fax taught all of us to share our goodfortune and give of ourselves. There are fewpeople in our business or in the city of Chicagowho can equal his generosity with his own fortune, his time, his interest, and his energy. Heurged each of us to be a good citizen in our community. Indeed, he thrust many of us into thisrole. And so our personal lives were expanded.His example is so widely accepted within our entire organization, that at the completion of ourCrusade of Mercy campaign this year, 94 percentof all employees contributed a fair share. Thismay well be the highest in the entire campaign.So you see, Gertrude, how we feel his presenceevery day. And I hope you sense how much heenriched the lives of all of us.Arthur W. Schultz is Chairman of the Board andChief Executive Officer, Foote, Cone and Beld-ing; Trustee of the University; Chairman of theVisiting Committee to the College; and member ofthe Visiting Committee to the Division of the Social Sciences.A MEMORIAL TRIBUTE:FAIRFAX M. CONE,1903-1977By Edward H. LeviIn his talk at the trustees' dinner for the faculty in1955, Fairfax Cone spoke of the invitation whichcame to him in the spring of 1951 to become atrustee of this University. The gentlemen representing the trustees were Laird Bell and HermonDunlap Smith. "L accepted before the invitationwas fairly past Mr. Bell's lips," Fairfax Cone toldthe faculty. "That was my 'fellowship' — of a10kind." Then, generous as he always was, becauseof the task at hand, he went on to say, "And Ihave never been more glad of anything in my life:the opportunity to have a part, a working part inone of the great institutions for learning and goingforward in our time."In his autobiography — and I can hear Fax telling me not to call it an autobiography — he described the board of the University as having"much the same standing in the business community that the faculty was accorded in the academiccommunity." He recalled with a "sharp sense ofwonder" his "difficulties in becoming a universitygraduate; now to be part of the education establishment." The difficulties, as he told The University of Chicago faculty in 1955, were his failinggrades as a beginning undergraduate at the University of California — grades which caused him tobe dropped twice from the register. Then when hereturned and fell in love with seventeenth andeighteenth century English literature, he earnedfor himself the award of a graduate fellowship inEnglish, but the fellowship could not be given because he was unwilling to do what would havebeen required to achieve the necessary gymnasium credits for his baccalaureate degree. Thestory undoubtedly was a reflection on how chanceperhaps changed a career, but in a teasing way itsaid something about belonging and independence, and something, also, about the ways ofhigher education.Fairfax Cone was direct, simple, and subtle. Hewas direct because he went for the heart of thematter. He was simple because this was a test ofthe truth. He was subtle because he was observant. He knew the patterns of life. As a youngman he had sailed the seas, working on a freighter.This was an important part of his education beforehe went to the University of California. His latercareer brought him into touch with men andwomen of genius, men and women of power, menand women overwhelmed with problems. Heknew what individuals looked like. He could drawthem. He understood them. He could speak tothem. He would say he was a communicator,speaking from people to people. But he was thekind of communicator he was, because he reserved for his own role a zone of privacy, of individuality. It was in this zone of privacy he cultivated his own love of learning. This separateness,in part the mark of the professional, reflected itselfin many ways. It helped him understand the University because this combination of commitmentand privacy is essential for a university. It con tinually nourished for Fax, also, a sense of thefunny and the absurd. A characteristic glimpse ofthis took place when Fax introduced HubertHumphrey at the first Benton Medal dinner at theUniversity. The fine people in attendance werecrowding and shoving around and on top of whatis always called the dais. Fax clutched the podiumand said, "Ladies and gentlemen: This introduction has to be brief because I am about to fall offthis platform — the Vice-President of the UnitedStates."He was a man of strong commitments. As anewcomer to the city of Chicago in 1942 hereached out to help those institutions of cultureand philanthropy which were important to thecity. In this way he was attracted to The University of Chicago. He was attracted to it also because it was a center of controversy. It needed theprotection of those who understood and couldexplain to others the values of this intellectual tradition of independence. He delighted in helpingmen and women of exceptional ability on this faculty before they had attained the later fame whichcame to them. He always wanted to take a chanceon young students whose initiative suggested thattheir belief they might have a better idea mighthave some basis, however slim. He thought it important to make it possible for them to go theirown way with what frequently — more often thanmight be imagined — turned out to be their owngenius. His early period in Chicago saw the introduction, as he said, of the atomic age — and thatwas done on this campus — a symbol of power, butto Fax a reminder of the greater force of educationitself.He was deeply concerned about the problems ofthe cities which were the problems of people andthe problems of our culture. He asked how thedreams of his forebears, who were among thesigners of the Declaration of Independence, couldbe real in a divided and often hostile environment.He saw in the University's efforts to create acommunity, the kind of direction essential if citieswere to be saved; a first step, to be followed, hehoped, by an even more important related endeavor: to discover the way to transform the careless and rigid public school system so that education could reach the mounting millions called "theunderprivileged," a phrase he described as "atransport of euphemism." He had worked withthe problem of primary and secondary public education and knew its enormous dimensions as amember of the Chicago School Board. Startingwith a view of the cities as a test of our values,11Fax came to see The University of Chicago asamong those institutions which could do the mostgood for the future.He became chairman of the Board of Trusteesin 1963 when the University was faced with thenecessity of a most difficult and gigantic development campaign; the largest ever attempted up tothat time by any private university. If that campaign had failed — as it easily might have failed—the University would not be here today. Fax wasenormously proud of this institution. He tookevery opportunity to say so. He was ourmissionary to the world. Then while he waschairman of the Board of Trustees of the University, other tests came. They were to have beenexpected. He saw them as opportunites to showthe meaning of a university.Fax was a generous man. He was generous inmany ways: in his praise and belief in others, in giving of himself. He was my friend. I am told thatthe archives of the University have written evidence of this, for me and for others. But there isno need for me to look them up. Long ago thisprivate man opened his world to us, includingeven the world of the privacy of his family. Hecame to us and we were permitted to come to him.He came to this University to serve and to learn.But in a way, which he understood, he also cameto teach. That was his "fellowship of a kind."And he never failed us.Edward H. Levi is the Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor in the Law School,Committee on Social Thought, and in the College;President Emeritus; and Honorary Trustee of theUniversity .12THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO RECORDVICE PRESIDENT FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRSRoom 200, Administration Building*?-¦--. <«a% «tti»/;>'-' ^JVjr ?£~*HI<r.rf§j^r .*<»*^_ o zT> I om £ c 33D P TJ2 > -n W OPOSTAAID0,ILLI o52 Z 0 1ivo m«*¦ 7^ oCO 3