Worcester Polytechnic, '83, was called to the chair from the University
of Wisconsin.
Though courses in economics were given in the University almost from the
first and; in fact, with International Law, formed the special field of
work assumed by Dr. Angell for some years, the Department of Political
Economy as such was not organized until after Henry C. Adams, Iowa
College, '74, who came to the University as a lecturer in 1881, accepted
the chair of Political Economy in 1887. The first step toward a chair in
Sociology came with the appointment in 1899 of Charles Horton Cooley,
'87, a son of Judge Thomas M. Cooley, of the first Law Faculty, as
Assistant Professor of Sociology, from which position he rose to a full
professorship in eight years. A separate chair of Political Science was
not created until 1910, when Jesse Siddall Reeves, Amherst, '91, came as
the head of the new department. The Department of Music had its first
beginning with the appointment of Calvin Brainerd Cady, Oberlin, '74, as
instructor in 1880. He became Acting Professor of Music in 1885, but
resigned three years later when Albert A. Stanley, Leipzig, '75, came as
the head of the Department and a few years later Director of the
University School of Music, now closely associated with the work of the
University though not in any way a part of it. After the disappearance
from the Faculty roll of the name of the Detroit portrait painter, Alvah
Bradish, who apparently gave a few lectures on Fine Arts during the
period from 1852 to 1863, no work in fine arts was given until the
appointment of Professor Herbert R. Cross, Brown, '00, in 1911. The work
in elocution and oratory was definitely established with the appointment
in 1889 of Thomas C. Trueblood, M.A., Earlham, '85, who had for some
years held a lectureship in the University, as Assistant Professor of
Elocution and in 1892 as full Professor of Oratory.
The chair of Semitics and Oriental Languages, held since 1914 by Leroy
Waterman, Hillsdale, '98, was first established in 1893 when James A.
Craig, McGill, '80, came as Professor of Oriental Languages, a title
which was changed to Semitic Languages and Literatures and Hellenistic
Greek the following year.
Following the example of Yale and Cornell, Michigan established a
Department of Forestry in 1903, and called Filibert Roth, '90, to fill
the chair thus created. For some time courses in forestry had been given
in connection with the work in botany, but the growing interest in the
preservation and conservation of America's timber resources made more
intensive and systematic training seem desirable. A few years later, in
1909, a course in landscape design was established, which shortly became
a department under the charge of Professor Aubrey Tealdi, a graduate of
the Royal Technical Institute of Livorno, Italy.
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