Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Sing To Old Alma Mater From the beginning Marquette has produced great creative minds. One of those minds, whose name has faded into anonymity, wrote a song about his alma mater in 1902. The song itself is about as well known today as the author is. V . - fr. “Marquette” There's a college that I know By Milwaukee's crescent bay. Round whose name in brightness glow Hallowed lights of boyhood's day. 'Tis a place you'll not forget, If you chance within its halls; For the spell of Old Marquette With its charm each heart enthralls. Chorus: Marquette, Marquette, we are the boys, you bet; In it to stay, that is our way; Hearts that are faithful and bold. Baseball, football, whichever game you may call; Always on top, never a stop; That is the motto we hold. V college, to do clerical work and typing. 1884 — Commercial certificates are awarded to the first students who have completed the commercial, or business, course of study. 1887 — In June, the first five baccalaureate degrees are conferred by the college on stu -dents who have completed the liberal arts course of college study. 1892 — Intercollegiate football gets off to a bad start at Marquette as the newly formed team loses its first three games. The first victory comes in the fourth and last game of the season against St. Ignatius College of Chicago. Baseball, however, is still the most popular sport on campus. 1893 — The Marquette Alumni Association is founded in June. The purpose of the organization is to ... maintain a fellow feeling among the former students of the institution, to further the interests of higher education, to promote the welfare of Marquette College. ’’ The association, formally in -corporated in 1921, pledges support of academic and athletic scholarship programs. 1894 — Gesu Church is dedicated on December 16. 1904 — The Marquette Journal commences publication. 6

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The first Marquette College building, at 10th and State Streets, was the home of the college and high school Built in 1881. it survived into the 1970s At Marquette 100 Years Ago When Marquette opened in 1881. it was foreign languages and Christian doctrine not only a college, hut also a high school were required classes. The entire curriculum took seven years to In 1906. the college and preparatory acad- complete, with four years in the preparatory emy separated. The academy, later called academy followed by three years of either Marquette University High School, remained liberal arts or commercial training. under the direction of the Jesuits for several Many of the first 77 students of Marquette years after the separation, although it had its College had little or no previous education own principal and faculty. The nine faculty members, all Jesuits, even After the college became a university, were faced with several students who had not there developed a trend to specialize By yet learned to read and write! By 1887. 1916. most of the independent colleges with - though, five men finished the whole seven- in the university had been founded Even the year course, and were awarded bachelor of schools that were founded after 1916 had arts degrees. their roots in this period. Nursing courses, for Until 1907, when the Medical College was example, were offered long before the Col- established. the college offered liberal arts lege of Nursing became independent of the education only. Classical studies, philosophy. Medical College in 1936.

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+ 1906 — Marquette College celebrates its silver jubilee with a pontifical Mass in Gesu, and with an alumni convention. Alumnus Henry F. Hillman says in the commencement speech: ”1 remember how on the First morning, going north on 10th Street, I approached with awe and reverence that tall cream and red brick building at the corner of State Street. — Local businessman Robert A. Johnston funds the construction of a new college building. The building contains the latest educational facilities: a library, science laboratories, classnxims and an auditorium. In 1907, the college moves to the new building at 1131 W. Wisconsin Ave., while the preparatory academy remains at 10th and State. There is some consideration given to renaming the college after Mr. Johnston, but it is finally decided that the building will be named in his honor. 1907 — The dentistry, medicine and pharmacy departments of two small, private medical colleges become affiliated with Marquette. forming the Marquette School of Medicine. The Marquette charter is amended, and the school assumes university status. Top Left: The first home field for Marquette football was next to the building at 10th and State. Above Gesu Church at the turn of the century. Left Robcn A. Johnston, whose generosity helped Marquette expand into a university in 1907. 9