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CALIFOR"IIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
Nineteen hundred and twenty-one was marked by developments
which made it one of the most important years in the history of the
Institute. When a laboratory of physics was assured by Dr. Norman
Bridge, Dr. Millikan severed his connection with the University of
Chicago to become director of the laboratory and Chairman of the
Executive Council of the Institute. The setting up of the Executive
Council, which was the principal feature of an administrative reorganization,
was designed to achieve two results: to avoid the burden
of single responsibility which a college presidency usually entails,
and to bring about a closer relationship between the Board of Trustees
and the faculty. The Executive Council, which under the Board of
Trustees administers the affairs of the Institute, is composed of both
trustees and faculty members, and as a body it discharges the duties
ordinarily performed both by a college president and the executive
committee of a board of trustees.
In the same year, 1921, financial stability was assured by
Mr. Arthur H. Fleming's agreement to give the California Institute
his personal fortune as permanent endowment. In November of that
year, the Board of Trustees formulated in the "Educational Policies
of the Institute" an explicit statement of the principles which were
to govern the present conduct of the Institute and its future development.
Recognition by the Southern California community of the
value of these aims has resulted in a steady growth of the physical
facilities and has made possible the addition of work in geology,
biology, and aeronautics. There has been also, during the past fifteen
years, a steady growth in enrollment, both in the undergraduate
and graduate groups. But all of these developments have involved
no changes of fundamental purpose; they have, in fact, only enabled
that purpose to be fulfilled more completely.
EDUCATIONAL POLICIES
In pursuance of the plan of developing an institute of science and
technology of the highest grade, the Trustees in 1921 adopted the
following statement of policies: