ABSTRACT
Receiving this award meant that I met R. M. Hutchins at the Montclair Yale Club party in 1929. He asked me what I planned to do after graduation, and I responded that I intended to pursue graduate studies in mathematics. “Come to Chicago,” he said. “We have a great mathematics department.” Some weeks later, a letter from Hutchins offered me a fellowship with a stipend of $1,000. My teacher, Egbert Miles, had done his graduate work at Chicago, so he was pleased with the offer. I accepted.
