gifts to eliminate the deficit rather than to further expand programs, but structural deficits remained until after Harper's presidency.
=== 1906–1929 ===
After Harper's death in 1906, the board of trustees named head of the Department of Political Science Harry Pratt Judson acting president, and in 1907 made the appointment permanent. Judson initiated a policy of financial austerity, which renewed Rockefeller's confidence in the university and resulted in a series of large gifts to the endowment between 1906 and 1910, including a final gift of $10 million in 1910, that balanced the university's budget. In 1911, the university adopted a Latin motto of Crescat scientia; vita excolatur, which translates to "Let knowledge grow from more and more; and so be human life enriched." In 1912, Judson successfully encouraged the board to create a faculty pension fund.
During World War One, Judson, as well as faculty members such as Albion Small and Paul Shorey, published works supporting the war. On the other hand, student …
