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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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IV AT THE TURNING POINT Burrill's Steadfast University Service. Improved State Support. University Expansion Upwards. The Extension Experiment. Summer School and Graduate Work. Liberalization of Student and Faculty Life. Various Innovations. FOR the next three years, from September, 1891, to the same month in 1894, Vice President Burrill acted as Regent, bringing to the place experience he had gained as temporary head during one of Gregory's absences in Europe, during the months following Gregory's resignation, and during a long vacation which Peabody had taken for his health. He had the advantage of familiarity with the institution from its beginning, and of holding the complete trust of students and faculty. His relations with the last body, indeed, were of necessity cordial, for though he held and usually exercised complete powers as an executive, most administrative problems were considered by the faculty as in committee, and many settled in this cooperative spirit. The years were years of unprecedented growth in every direction. The beginnings of this growth, to be sure, had come in the closing days of Peabody's administration, and Burrill, loyal to his old chief, always made this clear. But progress was obviously much more rapid after he took the helm, for an entirely new spirit was breathed into all departments, and for the first time the University had both opportunities and a head with imagination enough to make the utmost of them. 141
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