DePaul University - Depaulian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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I m h...- l- thHAT THE BIRDS of tomorrow Will see as they Hit on their way through the sky, but only those Who enter the doors Will ever learn to appreciate the meaning of the Greater De Paul. y, M ? It;

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..'. '1 resign in 1909. Under Father McCabe,s administration, De Paul grew and expanded in every direction. Departments of Law, Music and Commerce were added to the University. The faculty was increased and strengthened. The enrollment took immense 1e a p s . Tradition had barred the doors of Catholic col- leges, under the direction of priests, against women. With splendid courage, braving criticism a n d opposition, Father McCabe pried off the bars and opened the doors of De Paul to women in both extension and regular courses. Portions of the University were transferred from the North Side into the Loop. When F ather McCabe, in April, 1920, relinquished the adminis- tration of the University to the president of today, Father Levan, it was after he had seen De Paul grow from one building to three and from less than two hundred men students to over two thou- sand men and women students. During the last four years the en- rollment has continued to increase until today the seven professors and sixty-nine students of 1898 have given place to more than one hundred professors and in- structors and three thousand students. We leave to prophets and to poets to tell the story of tomor- row. We walked through the old- fashioned hall- ways and sat in the makeshift classrooms of the barn-like building that was Saint Vincentts College. From the evi- dences of that yes- terday we could never have fore- told the splendor that is the fact of today. In its twenty-five years D e P a u l h a s achieved greater things than its founders dared hope or even dream. Today we walk through the corridors of its newest build- ing and sit in classrooms that are a scholarts delight. Surely we shall be pardoned, if we dream- dream of the old brick building and the college that were, and dream of what tomorrow may hold for De Paul. But the story of tomorrow we leave to another hand.

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12 ab'vd HUS THE ARTIST conceives the building wherein the physical nature of the men and the women of the Greater De Paul will be brought nearer and nearer to perfection to keep pace with the growth of mind and heart.