Professor Zug

GEORGE BREED ZUG, Professor of Modern Art at Dartmouth College from 1913 until his retirement in 1932, died at his home in Winter Park, Florida, on February 10. He was 75 years old.

Professor Zug also taught at the University of Chicago and while there and at Dartmouth specialized in city planning and architecture as aspects of modern art. He was averse to the American skyscraper and in 1930 created news by declaring in an interview that the building' of such towering structures in America was a disease. "The New York police," he declared, "should limit the height of buildings instead of planning ineffective traffic regulations which nobody remembers." Hanover, he added, was the only town in the United States not trying to ape New York.

Professor Zug lectured widely in his special fields and in 1918 spoke at Army and Navy camps and stations under the War Work Council of the Y.M.C.A., appearing at more than one hundred such camps from New England to Florida. While at Dartmouth he was honored with membership in the Boston Society of Landscape Architects and the City Planning Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Professor Zug was born in Pittsburgh on September 10, 1867, the son of Charles H. Zug, a steel manufacturer, and the former Sarah Breed. He was a descendant of Jonathan Edwards. He was graduated from Amherst in 1893 and took post-graduate work at Harvard during the following year. He also studied abroad, in Berlin and Rome. He joined the University of Chicago faculty in 1903 and taught there for ten years, until called to Dartmouth as Assistant Professor of Modern Art. In 1920 he was elevated to a full professorship and was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree by the College. He retired in 1932 and since that time had resided in New York City and Winter Park, Florida. At the time of his retirement he presented his art collection and his papers on city planning to Amherst.

Professor Zug was married in 1907 to the former Miss Clara M. Stearns of Cleveland, who died in 1932. There were no children. Funeral services were held in Pittsburgh on February 15.