commenced in May 1921. The Department of Industrial Research became the Department of Engineering Research in October 1920 and included the Industrial Research Laboratory which undertook research projects for Michigan's growing manufacturing industries. While at Smith College, Burton had formed a close personal friendship with Calvin Coolidge and was invited to make the speech nominating him for president at the Republican National Convention in June in Cleveland Ohio in 1924. While the president of the University of Michigan he invited Robert Frost to be a Poet-in-Residence. Honors and memorials He received several honorary degrees: a doctorate of divinity from Carleton college in 1909, a doctor of laws from Tufts College in 1911, from Western Reserve University in 1911, Amherst College in 1913, Hobart College in 1913 and the University of Michigan in 1920. In addition to the Burton Memorial Tower on the University of Michigan campus, Burton Hall at the University of Minnesota, and Burton Hall at Smith College, there is a school, Marion L. Burton Elementary School, named after him in Huntington Woods, Michigan. Publications of Marion LeRoy Burton "The Problem of Evil," 1909 "The Secret of Achievement," 1913 "Our Intellectual Attitude in an Age of Criticism," 1913 "Life which is Life Indeed," 1914 "First Things," 1915 "On Being Divine," 1916 References 1874 births 1925 deaths People from Poweshiek County, Iowa Presidents of Smith College Presidents of the University of Michigan Presidents of the University of Minnesota American Christian clergy