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 jv A Message frotn the President 
 
 The little book which is herewith presented is 
 intended as a statement to the alumni of the gen- 
 eral situation of the University at this time. It 
 is hoped that they will all find it of interest and 
 that many will see a marked difference between 
 the Quadrangles as they knew them and the Quad- 
 rangles as they are today. Moreover the Univer- 
 sity is not stationary. There are distinct and 
 large plans for the future. From the beginning 
 the University has looked far forward and it has 
 in the main realized its aims. We are confident 
 that the present dreams will become actual in the 
 not distant future. 
 
 The large body of alumni, of course, comprises 
 chiefly those who have not yet reached middle life. 
 Of the total number of degrees conferred, three 
 thousand and forty-two were given in the period 
 ending with 1905. Ten thousand seven hundred 
 and seventy-nine have been given in the second 
 fifteen-year period of the University history. 
 
 This makes it plain that the University of 
 Chicago is on a totally different basis from many 
 other universities of older foundation. The num- 
 ber of alumni who have reached more than middle 
 Hfe and who have had an opportunity to acquire 
 
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 fortunes on a considerable scale is necessarily with 
 us very small. It cannot be expected that in the 
 immediate future our alumni may do the large 
 things for the University which have been done 
 and which are daily being done for certain older 
 institutions. The large needs now before the Uni- 
 versity must in the main be met from other sources. 
 At the same time the generous interest which 
 our alumni have so often manifested is deeply 
 appreciated and is encouraging for the future. 
 
 It is believed that no institution has a more 
 loyal body of alumni than ours. The Alumni 
 Council which represents the alumni body and 
 which has in hand the various alumni interests, is 
 a very active and efficient organ and in its plans 
 and policies is looking forward alertly to the 
 future. 
 
 The University extends cordial greetings to all 
 its alumni everywhere, and will always rejoice in 
 their successes and have sympathy for their diffi- 
 culties. It is the distinct view of all of us that 
 the University exists not merely on the Midway, 
 but wherever its alumni are doing the active work 
 of the world; and we believe that the lessons of 
 their student life will make an essential part of 
 the power with which they perform their duties 
 of citizenship in any part of the world. 
 
 Harry Pratt Judson 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 IN 1921 
 
 Aims and Qrowth 
 
 THE University of Chicago is now in its 
 thirtieth year. It is still the youngest of 
 great American universities. But it has 
 matriculated 87,000 students; it has graduated 
 10,000 Bachelors, 2,000 Masters, 1,200 Doctors of 
 Philosophy, and 600 Doctors of Law. It has an 
 annual enrolment of 11,000 students; it has a 
 library of almost 1,000,000 books and assets 
 aggregating $50,000,000. 
 
 Other universities are of course older, larger, or 
 richer; but Chicago has been in many ways a 
 pioneer in American education. It was the first 
 to offer regular university work through the 
 Summer Quarter, and still while most university 
 campuses are drowsing, deserted, in summer 
 sunshine, Chicago's quadrangles are humming with 
 5,000 of the most eager students of the year. It 
 was Chicago that first made physical culture and 
 athletics a regular division of the university, 
 and gave the head of it the rank of a university 
 professor, a policy which has done much for 
 American college athletics. Chicago was the 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 first university in the United States to establish 
 a university press, and all the leading American 
 universities have since followed its example. 
 Chicago owes much to other universities, at 
 home and abroad, but it has in its turn made a 
 distinct contribution to American university 
 organization and ideals. 
 
 One thinks instinctively of almost every 
 American university as dominated either by its 
 graduate work or its undergraduate life, as the 
 case may be. At Chicago the effort has been to 
 let neither factor eclipse the other, but to main- 
 tain both in a wholesome equilibrium. Along with 
 this has gone the kindred policy of stimulating 
 both teaching and research among the members 
 of all the departments. This has had the double 
 effect of keeping the University teaching fresh 
 and modern and of developing proficiency in 
 investigation in an unusually large proportion 
 of the teaching staff. The University has given 
 further encouragment to such research by conduct- 
 ing scholarly and scientific journals for the inter- 
 change of new ideas and discoveries. Perhaps 
 nowhere in America has greater encouragement 
 been given to scientific publication, and the 
 massive lists of publications of members of the 
 Faculties which formed part of the decennial 
 and again of the quarter-centennial publications 
 give evidence of the result. 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 The University has from the first welcomed 
 women both as students and as teachers. At 
 the very beginning of its work, one of its most 
 respected and beloved figures was Alice Free- 
 man Palmer, the Dean of Women, and among 
 the University's benefactors women have been 
 conspicuous. Residence halls for women, all 
 given by women, were among the first buildings 
 erected; while the feature of the quarter- 
 centennial celebration was the dedication of 
 Ida Noyes Hall, with its clubhouse, refectory, and 
 gymnasium for women. 
 
 The University of 192 1 is of course very differ- 
 ent from that of 1892. It then enrolled 700 
 students; now it has 11,000. It then consisted 
 of the Colleges, the Graduate Schools of Arts, 
 Literature, and Science, and the Divinity School. 
 To these have been added, one by one, six other 
 colleges or schools. In 1898 was founded the 
 College of Commerce and Administration, which 
 developed in 1902 into the School of that name. 
 The year 1900 saw the organization of University 
 College, which now enrols eighteen hundred 
 students annually in its afternoon, evening, 
 and Saturday classes. Rush Medical College 
 had been affiliated in 1898, and in 1901 the 
 Medical Courses were organized by the bring- 
 ing of its first- and second-year work to the 
 Quadrangles. In 1901 the School of Education 
 
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 was established, continuing the work of the 
 Chicago Institute. The University has in the 
 School of Education one of the two completely 
 organized educational laboratories in the world. 
 In 1902 the Law School was established, and the 
 standards embodied in it have had an important 
 influence in the improvement of legal education 
 in the Middle West. In 1920 the University 
 added the Graduate School of Social Service 
 Administration, in continuation of the work of 
 the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. 
 The work of the Divinity School has also expanded 
 through the affihation of the Disciples' Divinity 
 House in 1894, the Ryder Universalist House in 
 191 1, and the Chicago Theological Seminary 
 (Congregational) in 191 5. 
 
 With the leading events of the University's 
 first quarter-century its friends are famihar. 
 One of the last of these was the gift of two hundred 
 thousand dollars for the much needed Theology 
 Building, which was afterward increased to three 
 hundred thousand dollars and supplemented by 
 Mrs. Joseph Bond's gift of fifty thousand for the 
 Divinity Chapel. A little later, too late in fact 
 for inclusion in the quarter-centennial History of 
 the University, came the great Williams gift of 
 more than two million dollars, which has been 
 assigned to the maintenance of the School of 
 Commerce and Administration. The Williams 
 
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 THE UNIVERSITY CHAPEL: INTERIOR 
 
 Proposed Design. See p. i8 
 
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 gift was wholly unsolicited and was a complete 
 surprise to the President and Trustees. Mr. 
 Hobart W. Williams wished to make a contribu- 
 tion to education in memory of his parents who 
 had lived for many years in Chicago, and what 
 he knew of the University led him to make it the 
 object of his liberality. 
 
 The Last Five Years 
 
 The second quarter-century was auspiciously 
 begun by the successful conduct of the largest 
 single financial campaign in the University's 
 history thus far, the Medical Fund. The Presi- 
 dent and the Trustees undertook on November 8, 
 1 91 6, to secure for medical work the sum of five 
 miUion three hundred thousand dollars, and 
 within six months five million four hundred and 
 sixty-one thousand dollars had been raised. 
 It was only our entry into war that prevented 
 the immediate execution of the broad plans this 
 fund makes possible. As it is, the medical pro- 
 gram is now part of what President Judson 
 has termed the "Program in Suspense." 
 
 In the summer of 191 8 Mr. La Verne Noyes, 
 the donor of Ida Noyes Hall, presented to the 
 University property which is estimated at about 
 two milKon dollars for the estabHshment of 
 scholarships for those who had served under the 
 American flag in the Great War, and for their 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 descendants. This generous and patriotic gift 
 called forth nation-wide interest and has already 
 influenced many similar benefactions. Hundreds 
 of men are now enjoying its benefits. 
 
 The University in the War 
 Mr. Noyes made his great gift when the war 
 was at its height. From the day the United 
 States entered that struggle the activities of the 
 University were more and more turned into 
 war channels. Many students and professors 
 put on khaki immediately and found their places 
 in officers' training camps or in war preparations 
 at Washington. The laboratories of the Uni- 
 versity were promptly put at the disposal of 
 the Government for experiment and research. 
 R.O.T.C. companies, one of them made up 
 of Faculty men, including the President, drilled 
 daily on Stagg Field. The University announced 
 that all men of the city and neighborhood who 
 wished to come to the Field in the evenings 
 would receive free military instruction and drill, 
 and hundreds of men responded and got their 
 first military experience drilling there by electric 
 light. A beautiful stand of colors was after- 
 ward presented to the University by these men, 
 most of whom became officers as a result of this 
 training, and all of whom were sooner and better 
 prepared for service than they would otherwise 
 have been. 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 The story of the University in the war has not 
 yet been written and is too long for inclusion here. 
 The President of the University was Chairman 
 of one of the appeal boards in connection with the 
 first draft in 191 7, and made an arduous journey 
 to Persia in 191 8 as Chairman of the Commission 
 on Relief in the Near East, and with a special 
 unofficial mission for the Government. Members 
 of the Faculties and of the Board of Trustees 
 found their way into every form of service with 
 the army, the navy, the Red Cross, or the 
 Y.M.C.A. Many were active in Washington 
 throughout the war. More served in France. 
 Our men of science worked effectively upon the 
 rationing, instruction, transportation, protection, 
 and health of our soldiers, while the invention of 
 the Michelson range-finder, adopted by the 
 navy, and the discovery by a University Ph.D., 
 of Lewisite, one of the deadliest poison gases of 
 the war, show that on the offensive side they 
 were equally successful. Relief expeditions to 
 Persia, Russia, and Roumania were led by 
 University of Chicago men, and one member of 
 the Faculties in 1 918-19 visited every one of the 
 warring countries, as an expert for the American 
 ReHef Administration and the Children's ReHef 
 Bureau. 
 
 The war record of the alumni and students of 
 the University is even more impressive. They 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 were in every field and on every sea. Chicago 
 men fell at Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, and St. 
 Mihiel, and in the Argonne campaign. They 
 laid down their lives in German prisons, with the 
 Army of Occupation, and even in Mesopotamia. 
 Four thousand three hundred and fifty-five alumni 
 and former students are known to have been in 
 service. Nine hundred and sixty-six won com- 
 missions. Seventy-two gave up their lives. At 
 least twenty-five received conspicuous honors. 
 In the air service four of the American aces were 
 University of Chicago men. It must be a 
 noble and distinguished memorial that shall some 
 day in the Quadrangles of the University fitly 
 commemorate the service of these men in the war. 
 
 The S.A.T.C. 
 
 Nothing brought the war home to the Univer- 
 sity so forcibly as the institution of the S.A.T.C. 
 The Student Army Training Corps was organized 
 at the University on October i, 1918, in response 
 to the appeal of the War Department calling 
 upon the colleges and universities to place their 
 resources at the service of the Government for the 
 rapid training of young men for service as officers 
 in the new army. All the men's dormitories in 
 the University were converted into barracks. 
 The second floor of the grandstand on Stagg Field 
 was inclosed and equipped with steam heat and 
 
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 electric light and thus made into large barracks 
 rooms. In addition to these provisions six fra- 
 ternity houses on University and Woodlawn 
 avenues were leased. Hutchinson Hall and 
 the dining-room and gymnasium of Lexington 
 Hall were used for mess halls, and the reading- 
 rooms of Harper Memorial Library, the Law 
 School, and other University buildings were 
 set apart as halls for supervised study. The men 
 were put into uniform as rapidly as possible and 
 their daily drills and their practice of marching to 
 and from mess and study halls gave the University 
 during that quarter a thoroughly martial aspect. 
 The necessary requirement in the way of daily drill 
 naturally interfered with the doing of their student 
 work, however, and there was a very general relief 
 in the University when, soon after the Armistice 
 was declared on November ii, the Student Army 
 Training Corps was discontinued and on Decem- 
 ber 20 the last men of the Corps were released from 
 service. 
 
 While the Student Army Training Corps 
 experiment lasted hardly long enough to be 
 thoroughly tested as an emergency measure, 
 the response of the University to the call of the 
 Government in placing its buildings, equipment, 
 and Faculties at the service of the War Depart- 
 ment was one which stirred the hearts of the 
 whole University community. 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 The University after the War 
 
 As with most institutions of learning the Uni- 
 versity's enrolment was much reduced during 
 the war and much increased after it. The 
 attendance for the Autumn Quarter, 1920, was the 
 largest in the University's history, 5,993. All 
 University sports have resumed their usual place in 
 student life. The baseball team made an extended 
 and successful trip to Japan last spring. The 
 football games never drew such crowds as last 
 autumn. Basket-ball, swimming, cross-country 
 running, track, tennis, and other sports are being 
 assiduously pursued. Student social life is likewise 
 busy. The Re3niolds Club has about one thou- 
 sand members. The fraternities and women's 
 clubs are numerous and active. Ida Noyes Hall is 
 crowded with women's activities. The Under- 
 graduate Council, the Honor Commission, the 
 Campus Club, the W.A.A., the Federation of Uni- 
 versity Women, the Poetry Club, the musical and 
 dramatic clubs, and the Christian associations are 
 steadily at work. The Daily Maroon, the Phoenix, 
 Chanticleer, and Cap and Gown engage the under- 
 graduate journalistic and literary talents. 
 
 The more serious labors of the classroom and 
 the laboratory are less easy to chronicle. But the 
 extraordinary success of the Michelson inter- 
 ferometer method of determining the diameter 
 
 of the stars is still fresh in the public mind, 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 and the recent appointment of a well-known 
 alumnus, David AUan Robertson, as Dean of the 
 Colleges is evidence that undergraduate problems 
 are receiving their full share of attention. 
 
 The Program in Suspense 
 
 The great fund secured by the University in 
 1916-17 for medical development is intended to 
 provide three things. First, the establishment 
 in the Quadrangles of the University of a medical 
 school of the highest grade. It is to be a strictly 
 graduate school: everyone Who enters it must 
 have secured a Bachelor's degree. The course 
 will cover four years in medicine and will lead 
 to the degree of Doctor of Medicine. The 
 University is not undertaking to provide for an 
 enrolment of more than three hundred and fifty in 
 this school. Its aim is to train a limited number 
 of selected students for the medical profession 
 in the best possible way. 
 
 A second feature of the medical program is 
 the establishment of the Rush Graduate Medical 
 School, near the Presbyterian Hospital, as a grad- 
 uate medical school for practitioners, that is, 
 for those who already have the degree of M.D. 
 This school will train specialists and will further 
 extend medical knowledge among men who have 
 already been in medical practice. 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 A third feature of the plan is the very extended 
 provision for special research effected by arrange- 
 ments for close co-operation with the Presby- 
 terian Hospital, the John McCormick Memorial 
 Institute for Infectious Diseases, and the Otho 
 S. A. Sprague Memorial Institute. 
 
 It was for this great medical program that the 
 University secured in 1 916-17 nearly five and a 
 half million dollars. Of this amount fourteen 
 hundred thousand dollars were to be spent in new 
 buildings. The entry of the United States into 
 the Great War necessarily postponed the erection 
 of these buildings, and consequently the organiza- 
 tion of the Medical School. As building condi- 
 tions improve, however, the University will take 
 up the erection of these buildings and the exe- 
 cution of this whole medical program. 
 
 The larger of the proposed medical buildings 
 will be that comprising the Albert Merritt Billings 
 Hospital, for which the Billings family has pro- 
 vided one million dollars, and the Max Epstein 
 Dispensary, for which Mr. and Mrs. Epstein 
 gave one hundred thousand dollars. Plans for 
 this structure are now being completed by Cool- 
 idge and Hodgdon. The building will be located 
 on the south side of the Midway Plaisance. It 
 will include a hospital with two hundred and 
 fifty beds, a dispensary, laboratories for Pathology 
 and Bacteriology, and a library to which Dr. 
 
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 Frank Billings has contributed his own medical 
 collection. 
 
 While the training of candidates for the degree 
 of M.D. at the University will be carried on in 
 part in the existing biological laboratories and in 
 part in this great new building, for graduate work 
 for medical practitioners at Rush and the Presby- 
 terian Hospital provision will be made in the 
 Rawson Laboratory for which three hundred 
 thousand dollars have been provided by Mr. and 
 Mrs. Frederick H. Rawson. 
 
 The medical building program, large as it is, 
 is only a part of the University building program, 
 the execution of which has thus far been prevented 
 by the war and the industrial conditions that 
 followed it. In 1918 Mr. Andrew MacLeish, the 
 Vice-President of the Board of Trustees, gave the 
 University one hundred thousand dollars to be 
 used for the erection of a building, preferably for 
 administration. The gifts already described of 
 three hundred thousand dollars for the Theology 
 Building and of fifty thousand dollars for a 
 Divinity Chapel, now increased by accumulated 
 interest to nearly four hundred thousand dollars, 
 have not yet been applied to the erection of these 
 buildings. Plans have been completed, however, 
 by Coolidge and Hodgdon and as soon as building 
 conditions become at all favorable this beautiful 
 group will be erected. The Theology Building 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 is to stand directly north of Haskell Museum, 
 facing Kent Chemical Laboratory and forming 
 with Rosenwald and Walker the south side of the 
 Great Quadrangle. It will complete the Harper 
 Court, and the adjoining Divinity Chapel will form 
 the main feature on the north side of the Graduate 
 Quadrangle between Haskell and the Divinity halls. 
 
 In preparation for the erection of the Uni- 
 versity Chapel on the block between Fifty- 
 eighth and Fifty-ninth streets and University 
 and Woodlawn avenues, the University purchased 
 the building and property of the Quadrangle 
 Club, undertaking to erect a new clubhouse at 
 University Avenue and Fifty-seventh Street at 
 an expense of one hundred thousand dollars. 
 Very attractive plans for a clubhouse have been 
 prepared by Mr. Howard Shaw. The increased 
 cost of building has led the University to increase 
 its proposed expenditure for this purpose to one 
 hundred and fifty thousand dollars, members 
 and friends of the Club providing fifty thousand 
 dollars in addition. As soon as the building 
 can be erected for approximately two hundred 
 thousand dollars work upon the new clubhouse 
 will begin. 
 
 Ten years ago Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the 
 founder, in his final gift of ten million dollars set 
 apart one million five hundred thousand dollars 
 for a University Chapel. This great fund is now 
 
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 available and plans drawn by Bertram G. Good- 
 hue are well advanced. The plan provides for a 
 stately and beautiful Gothic building with a 
 seating capacity of a little more than two thou- 
 sand. It is to be erected on the Woodlawn 
 Avenue side of the block on which the President's 
 House stands, fronting the Midway but set back 
 more than a hundred feet from the line of Fifty- 
 ninth Street. The present plan includes a mas- 
 sive tower two hundred and sixteen feet in height 
 above the crossing, which will be the dominating 
 feature of the Quadrangles. In no long time this 
 Chapel, which is to be one of the most impressive 
 buildings of its kind, will take its place among the 
 stately structures of the University. With the 
 Billings Hospital on the south side of the Midway 
 and the University Chapel almost opposite it on 
 the north side, the University will make a wholly 
 new impression on those who view it from the 
 Plaisance. The University's possession of the 
 Midway frontage continuously for three-quarters 
 of a mile on both sides of the boulevard gives it 
 an extraordinary opportunity for architectural 
 development, and the Midway of the future, 
 lined on both sides with such buildings as Ida 
 Noyes Hall, the Harper Memorial Library, the 
 University Chapel, and the Billings Hospital, 
 promises to be one of the statliest academic 
 avenues in the world. 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 The Five-Year Program 
 
 The plans of the University for development 
 in the near future are not confined to what has 
 just been sketched as "The Program in Suspense." 
 At the June Convocation, 1920, the President 
 outlined a program of what the University ought 
 to accomplish in the next five years. In 191 9 
 the Board of Trustees assigned income repre- 
 senting two million dollars of endowment to 
 salary increases for members of the Faculties. 
 Again in 1920 the Board authorized a further 
 increase of a like amount in professors' salaries. 
 This rapid advance of the salary scale makes the 
 maximum which may be reached by a professor 
 in Arts, Literature, Science, or Education equal 
 to that provided in any American university. 
 But to provide it permanently without hamper- 
 ing funds needed for other purposes calls for the 
 addition to the University's endowment of four 
 million doUars. 
 
 A second feature of the Five- Year Program 
 is the development of the Graduate Schools. 
 Without reducing the pursuit of pure science in 
 the Graduate Faculties the University feels that 
 it can also conduct in connection with the Gradu- 
 ate Schools many types of research which should 
 have an immediate bearing on the application of 
 science to industry, and for the conduct of such 
 research it purposes to organize within the Gradu- 
 
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 ate Schools a series of Institutes. In these the 
 basic principles of pure science involved in 
 important problems of society and its industries 
 will be investigated and extended. The first 
 Institute will be that of Physics and Chemistry. 
 It will require a building and equipment which 
 will cost four hundred and fifty thousand dollars 
 and an endowment which at the outset should be 
 one million. 
 
 A second Institute is to be that of Plant 
 Agriculture. Its purpose will be the advance- 
 ment of the science of agriculture in the matters 
 of plant production and protection, a field in 
 which many important fundamental problems 
 are as yet untouched. The Institute will also 
 train men in the fundamental science of agricul- 
 ture for positions in agricultural colleges and 
 experiment stations. Such advanced work in 
 these fields is nowhere being done in any adequate 
 way and will be warmly welcomed by those inter- 
 ested in agricultural science and education. 
 To establish this Institute will require at the 
 outset one hundred thousand dollars for equip- 
 ment and seven hundred thousand dollars for 
 endowment. 
 
 A third Institute is that of Mining, to be con- 
 ducted by the Department of Geology with the 
 assistance of the Departments of Physics, Chem- 
 istry, and Geography. It will not duplicate the 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 excellent undergraduate work now being done in 
 the schools of Mining and Engineering, but will 
 confine itself to advanced work like that of the 
 other Institutes. To establish it will require an 
 endowment of three hundred thousand dollars. 
 
 A fourth Institute will be that of the Science of 
 Education. It will be designed to conduct 
 research in the science of education and to train 
 students and supervisors in such research. This 
 will call for a new endowment of one million 
 dollars and the erection of the three buildings 
 which the School of Education requires for its 
 completion; one for the Graduate Department, 
 one for the Secondary School, and one for a 
 gymnasium. Seven hundred thousand dollars 
 should provide these buildings. 
 
 It wiU be seen that the establishment of the 
 Institutes caUs for new endowments to the 
 amount of three million dollars, while for new 
 buildings to accommodate them a total of one 
 million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars 
 will be necessary. 
 
 These are, of course, only a part of the Uni- 
 versity's needs for buildings. The University 
 Library is growing with extraordinary rapidity. 
 It now contains nearly eight hundred thousand 
 volumes and two hundred thousand pamphlets, 
 a total of almost one million titles, making it in 
 size probably the third university library in 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 America. The needs of the Library, as well as 
 the need of classrooms for the historical and social 
 sciences and the modern language departments, 
 call for the completion at the earliest possible 
 day of the Harper Library Group by the erection 
 of the buildings planned in 191 2 to flank the 
 Harper Memorial Library on the east and west. 
 The administrative work of the University is 
 scattered through several buildings in offices often 
 not adapted to it, and a convenient and dignified 
 administration building should be erected. The 
 housing question is increasingly serious as the 
 number of students increases and there is a great 
 demand for dormitories. The Board of Trus- 
 tees has directed the Committee on Buildings 
 and Grounds to secure plans for residence halls 
 for women to inclose the northern half of the 
 block containing Ida Noyes Hall. Residence 
 halls for men should be erected on the blocks 
 west of Cobb Hall. It is evident that to meet 
 the most pressing of these building needs will 
 require not less than one million seven hundred 
 and fifty thousand dollars. 
 
 These plans of salary increase. Institutes, and- 
 new buildings, therefore, require seven million 
 dollars for endowment and three million dollars 
 for building, a total of ten miUion dollars which 
 the University proposes to secure within a period 
 of five years. 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 The University Commissions 
 The great purposes of a university can only 
 be accomplished through the fullest co-operation 
 between its alumni, Trustees, professors, and 
 friends. To effect this co-operation the Uni- 
 versity in October, 1920, undertook to establish 
 the University Commissions. There are to be 
 fourteen of these, one for each of the main groups 
 of University interest. On each Commission 
 will be two alumni, a University Trustee, two 
 members of the Faculty immediately concerned, 
 and two or more other citizens to be appointed by 
 the President of the Board upon the recommenda- 
 tion of the President of the University. It will 
 be seen that on each Commission there will be 
 represented four important groups — alumni. Trus- 
 tees, Faculties, and citizens not already ofhcially 
 related to the University. The President of the 
 University will be an ex officio member of each 
 Commission. 
 
 The duty of each Commission will be to study 
 the work of its particular school or group of 
 interests and make occasional suggestions to the 
 Board of Trustees as to the manner of improving 
 the work of the school or group. Each Com- 
 mission is to meet at least once a quarter except- 
 ing in the summer and is to hold at least one 
 meeting each year with the whole teaching force 
 of the educational group with which it deals. 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 In the Spring Quarter there will also be one 
 joint meeting of all the Commissions with the 
 Board of Trustees. 
 
 Commissions are to be appointed for the fol- 
 lowing interests: the Law School; the Medical 
 School; the Graduate Medical School; the Divinity 
 School; the School of Education; the School of 
 Commerce and Administration; the Colleges of 
 Arts, Literature, and Science; Women's Interests ; 
 the Historical Group ; Modern Languages; Classi- 
 cal Languages; Physics, Chemistry, and Mathe- 
 matics; Geology and Geography; the Biological 
 Sciences. 
 
 The Commissions will greatly stimulate Uni- 
 versity work by bringing Faculty and Trustees 
 together and by actively relating representative 
 alumni and other citizens with the work and 
 organization of the University. Not only will 
 more and more alumni be brought into active 
 relations with the University, but more and more 
 of the representative citizens of Chicago and 
 the Central West, so many of whom have testi- 
 fied their interest in the University by great gifts 
 to its resources. 
 
 With this new integration of the members of 
 the University with the alumni and with the com- 
 munity which the Commissions plan promises; 
 with the new and broader service to the com- 
 munity which the organization of the Institutes 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 will insure; with the provision for the new salary 
 scale which will properly maintain the teaching 
 staff; with the great medical schools already 
 assured; and with a building program provided 
 or projected which may fairly be described as 
 magnificent, the University enters its fourth 
 decade with a promise of widening service which 
 must stir its sons and daughters and inspire it 
 friends. 
 
 The University and the Alumni 
 
 It is not the policy of the University to call 
 upon its alumni to meet deficits or to help in 
 carrying its current expenses. But this does 
 not mean that it does not depend upon their 
 co-operation. The good name of the University 
 is to a large extent in their hands, and their 
 honorable and creditable records in war or 
 peace are the greatest of its assets. The Uni- 
 versity is proud that the presidents of the Uni- 
 versity of California, Clark University, and the 
 Rockefeller Foundation are among its alumni, 
 and believes that all its graduates who in industry, 
 science, education, or public service are faith- 
 fully at work are serving the University well. 
 
 The University is still in its youth, its period 
 of expansion and equipment. For these it asks 
 great sums, which to a body of alumni few of 
 
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 whom are as much as fifty years old, perhaps 
 look discouraging. But the needs of the Uni- 
 versity are so various that every graduate who 
 wants to do so can find one to care for. Many 
 of the alumni have already done this. Medals, 
 prizes, scholarships, lectureships, professorships, 
 portraits, and libraries have been given by indi- 
 vidual alumni or alumni groups. Hundreds of 
 alumni contributed to the erection of the Harper 
 Memorial Library in 191 2, and to the portrait 
 of Mr. Stagg that now hangs in the Trophy 
 Room. 
 
 A survey was recently made of the accomplish- 
 ments and the needs of the various departments. 
 Most of them announced a need of books. Just 
 now especially there are extraordinary oppor- 
 tunities for the purchase of rare and valuable 
 books and collections of books, in Europe and 
 America. Sometimes the opportunity comes — 
 and goes — ^by cable; for it is a matter of hours. 
 The library with the ready money is the one 
 that can take advantage of these opportunities 
 in manuscripts, incunabula, and modern books. 
 The University Libraries are open the year around. 
 Last year one million readers were recorded as 
 using them, besides those who read and left no 
 record. This means that ten thousand students 
 used the Libraries an average of one hundred 
 times each in the course of the year. 
 
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 But if a graduate cares more about doing for 
 people than paying for books, there is a great 
 need at the University for scholarship funds. 
 The gift of fifty or seventy-five dollars to provide 
 for one quarter the tuition fees of a young man 
 or woman who is making a gallant fight to get a 
 college education and is working seven nights 
 and two afternoons in the week to do it, is as 
 good a use as a man can make of the money. 
 The University needs scholarships to help such 
 self-supporting students through college. 
 
 For graduate students the University needs 
 fellowships. Thirty years ago our fellowships 
 of three hundred and twenty dollars and ^ve 
 hundred and twenty dollars were eagerly sought. 
 Now, after paying tuition, no student can live 
 on one. A beginning has been made especially 
 in the new Medical Fund of research fellowships 
 of one thousand dollars and one thousand two 
 hundred dollars. There is great need of more 
 such provision for graduate students. 
 
 For really advanced work in history and liter- 
 ature the material in many cases cannot be brought 
 to the student; he must go where it is to be found, 
 in distant libraries and museums, at home or 
 abroad. Traveling fellowships are greatly needed 
 for this purpose. 
 
 Many departments need money for publica- 
 tion. They cannot pubHsh the results of their 
 
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 
 
 investigations for want of funds. Increased 
 costs of printing make the eleven University 
 journals more and more expensive to produce. 
 The journals have meant a great deal to the 
 progress of science and scholarship in this country. 
 They should be increased and strengthened. 
 Yet the University is facing a serious task even 
 in maintaining them. Each journal needs an 
 endowment fund to assure its future. Many 
 graduate students upon passing their Doctor's 
 examination find that to publish their theses as 
 the rule of the University requires will cost them 
 ^ve hundred dollars, or often considerably more 
 — an expenditure for which at the end of ten 
 years of study they are poorly prepared. A fund 
 for publication would relieve such cases. 
 
 The release of the Near East from Turkish 
 control has opened many important seats of the 
 ancient world to excavation for the first time. 
 The University has been quick to observe this 
 and to act upon it, and in 1919-20 organized the 
 Oriental Institute and sent an expedition to 
 Egypt and Mesopotamia under the charge of its 
 experts in Egyptology and Assyriology. The 
 adventures of the expedition read like the Arabian 
 Nights, and its acquisitions secured with funds 
 given for the purpose by various interested 
 friends, will make the Oriental collections of 
 Haskell Museum of unique value and interest. 
 
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 The further work of the Institute in expeditions 
 and excavations will depend upon the support it 
 receives from its friends. 
 
 The Department of Geology is very anxious to 
 establish a Field School of Geology to be con- 
 ducted in the summer, as soon as an endowment 
 fund for the purpose can be secured. The 
 Department of Geography is prepared to organize 
 expeditions for geographical research as soon as 
 funds are available for them, and one member of 
 the Department, an alumnus of the University, 
 is now on a geographical expedition to Asia. 
 
 The use that may be made of great scientific 
 equipments by able men of science has just been 
 brilliantly illustrated by the successful measure- 
 ment on December 13, 1920, at the Mount 
 Wilson Observatory of the diameter of the giant 
 star Betelgeuze by a method devised by Professor 
 Michelson, which has shown the diameter of this 
 star to be nearly three hundred million miles, or 
 three hundred times that of the sun. The 
 measurement was made by the use of a twenty- 
 foot interferometer (an instrument the invention 
 of which is one of Professor Michelson' s scientific 
 achievements), in connection with the Mount 
 Wilson hundred-inch telescope. 
 
 Zoology asks means to equip a museum in the 
 Hull Zoological Laboratory for its undergraduate 
 work. A permanent experimental plant with a 
 
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 vivarium for the study of the behavior and 
 transformation of hving forms would importantly 
 improve the Department's facilities for research. 
 This could be provided for thirty or forty thousand 
 dollars. 
 
 Botany is in great need of an experimental 
 botanic garden, with a research laboratory and 
 suitable greenhouses. This might be located on 
 the block at Fifty-ninth Street and Cottage 
 Grove Avenue. Our present lack of such equip- 
 ment compels many research students to go 
 elsewhere to find it. 
 
 Few alumni realize that the University's 
 astronomical equipment at the Yerkes Observa- 
 tory is one of the most remarkable in the world. 
 A glance at the full-page illustrations of it in the 
 Encyclopaedia Britannica^s article "Telescope" 
 wiU show what scientific men think of it. Eight 
 thousand people a year see the great forty-inch 
 telescope in operation. Notable work has been 
 done at the Observatory on the double stars, 
 the stellar clusters, and the Milky Way. But the 
 Observatory needs a new mounting for the 
 twelve-inch telescope, which could be provided 
 for about fifteen thousand dollars, and a brick 
 cylinder and dome for the Zeiss Ultra- Violet 
 Camera, which would cost two thousand. Facili- 
 ties for astronomical instruction on the Quad- 
 rangles of the University are also much needed. 
 
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 These are some of the definite needs felt by 
 various departments. A gift of twenty-five dol- 
 lars will supply some of them. Others will require 
 as many thousands. Scholarships have sometimes 
 been established in the University by groups of 
 friends, and perhaps groups of alumni or alumni 
 clubs may be interested in adopting the work of 
 some department and making it their particular 
 concern. The Director of the Libraries, the 
 Secretary of the Alumni Council, and the Secre- 
 tary to the President would be glad to put alumni 
 in touch with specific opportunities large or small 
 for helping to build the University that is to be. 
 
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