DePaul University - Depaulian Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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The new location of the downtown campus and the construction of the Up- town College of Liberal Arts Building in 1924 were the outstanding achieve- ments of the administration of the Very Rev. Thomas F. Levan, C.lVl. Consid- ered one of the most brilliant priests of the western province of the Congrega- tion of the Mission, Father Levan served as president from 1920 to 1930. Consolidation of the rapidly growing University and refinement of its admin- istration were the chief contributions of the Very Rev. Francis V. Corcoran, C.M., who served until 1935 as DePaul's fifth president. The construction of new quarters for the constantly growing sci- ence departments, deferred through Father Corcoran's regime because of the financial panic of the early 3U's, was at last undertaken in 1937 during the administration of DePauls sixth president, the Very Rev. Michael l. C'Connell, C.lVl. The new l-lall of Sci- ence, erected on the uptown campus at a cost of some SBZSODUU, was ready for classes in September, 1938. The Very Rev. Comerford l. C'Malley, C.M., succeeded Father C'Connell in October, 1944. Like his two immediate predecessors, Father O'Malley is a na- tive of Chicago. ln his relatively brief period of administration, he has seen the University swing from the problems of wartime disruptions in higher educa- tion to the equally harassing problems of postwar accommodation of the de- mands of young Chicagoans for edu- cational opportunity. For the first time in its history, the Uni- versity looks to the future with complete freedom to plan how it can more suc- cessfully meet Chicago's needs in the field of higher education. To assist him, Father C'Malley an- nounced in March, 1946, the formation of a Board of Lay Trustees consisting of a number of Chicago's leaders in com- merce, finance, industry, and the pro- fessions. ln the hands of these men, the blueprint of DePaul's future is being fashioned. .Q

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Byrne and his small staff was not con- fined to an ambitious building pro- gram. Begretting the small size and the rigidly set curricula of the contempo- rary Catholic liberal arts colleges. Father Byrne and his faculty resolved to establish a new Catholic university whose distinctive mark would be that for the first time in any Catholic college in the United States a modified elective system would be in operation. Early in December, 1907, the name DePaul University was unanimously agreed upon as most suitable for the new University, and the articles of the charter were carefully prepared. Be- fore the month was out, the formal docu- ment certifying that the said DePaul University is a legally organized Cor- poration under the laws of this State was signed and sealed by lames A. Bose, Secretary of State on December 24, l907, and DePaul became the first Catholic university in the State of llli- nois. An important paragraph in the ar- ticles of incorporation reads as follows: No test or particular religious profes- sion shall ever be held as a reguisite for admission to said University, or to any department belonging thereto ,... or for election to any professorship, or any place of honor or emolument in said Corporation or any of its depart- ments. Throughout the years the Uni- L A . versity has I proudly ob- served the spirit as well as the letter of this paragraph. ln luly, l9l0, . the Very Bev. Francis Xavier T McCabe, C.lVf., 7 came to DePaul as president,! and under his 4 energetic and' eloguent lead- ership the Uni- T F versity embarked upon an important era of development. The ten-year ad- ministration of Father McCabe saw the establishment of the Colleges of Law and of Commerce and the School of Music. The groundwork laid during his tenure was an important factor in the rise of DePaul's enrollment from 1,400 in l920 to over 7,000 just a decade later. Another important factor was the ac- guisition of space in the downtown DePaul Building, erected in l928 at Lake Street and Garland Court. The seventeen-story Loop structure was ad- mirably located to serve day and evening students from all parts of Chi- cago and its suburbs.

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