Letter from Commissioner of Education Earl James McGrath to Dr. Oscar Silverman

LETTER * January 14, 1953 Dr. Oscar Sil Lverman Professor-of English University of Buffalo Buffalo 14, New York Dear Oscar: I have your note of January 11 and I am glad to comply wi th your request for a brief statement to be used on the jacket of the book you. are publishing in honor of Chancellor Capen on his 75th birthday I hope the following will be helpful. No person in Américan higher education is better qualified. to speak on the management of universities than Samuel Paul Capen. Through his carly survey work he gained an intimate knowledge of the purposes and operations of many of the colleges and universities in this country. As the head of the University of Buffalo, which he. changed from a loose collection of professional schools into a well integrated and great university, he -demonstrated the validity of his principles relating to the every day job of managing a large and complex university This volume .containing a selection of his papers and addresses can be read profitably by administrative officers and faculity members in all our institutions of higher education. Sincerely yours, Earl J. McGrath U.S. Commissioner of Education * By Earl J. McGrath, U. S. Commissioner of Education, Fedéral Security Agency, Washington, D. C., to be used in the book presented to Chancellor Samuel P. Capen on his 75th birthday.