Education: President

Last Sunday morning the biggest news in Chicago was a black headline across the top of the front page of “the World’s Greatest Newspaper”: MAX MASON QUITS U. OF C.

In no U. S. metropolis is the president of a university as important a local figure as the president of the University of Chicago. His name is put on reception committees, figures in civic drives. He is a bigger frog in Chicago than Nicholas Murray Butler is in Manhattan. So it was indeed news last Sunday when Max Mason, 50, resigned as president of the University of Chicago, to become director of the newly-created Division of Natural Sciences of the Rockefeller Foundation of Manhattan. Chicago regretted his resignation, for his three-year administration on the Midway had been energetic, progressive.