Marquette University - Hilltop Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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Campus Camaraderie After 1907, there was no longer a central meeting place on campus for the students of the various schools. So in 1920, two students suggested that a mansion on Michigan Street behind Johnston Hall could be used as a union. The renovated house provided a place where men, and men only, could sip soft drinks and have a bite to eat together. Peter Brooks was the first president, and Charles Cobeen was the first manager. The union was such a financial success, that land for a new union building at 631 N. 13th St. was purchased. A $60,000 union was completed in 1923. The first floor of the two-story building featured a cafeteria. A lounge and soda bar, and several meeting rooms and offices made up the second floor. The union was financed by income and sale of shares. The loan for the new building was paid off in 1937, and after that, the Union's profits were used to establish a men’s dormitory. That dorm was opened in 1941. The Union was still a thriving business in 1953, when the alumni funded the building of a new all-university union, named after the old Union s first president, Peter Brooks. The Student Union at 6)1 N. 13th St., about 1924. 12

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Part Two: Marquette University (1907-1930) The new status gave Marquette the incentive to specialize even more. New programs were developed, and existing programs were expanded. Enrollment doubled in a decade, and the university had to purchase or construct buildings to accommodate all the stu -dents. A larger faculty was needed, and non -Jesuit instructors were hired to fill new positions. By 1930, the university already little resembled the Marquette College of a half century before. During these years, Marquette evolved into a dynamic, thriving and modern institution of higher learning. 1908 — The Marquette University Law School is established when the Milwaukee Law School merges with Marquette. In 1912, the S.J. Mackie mansion, next to Johnston Hall, is purchased to house the Law School. The Law School's current home, Sensenbren-ner Hall, is completed in 1924. — The College of Engineering is established. Gasses are held in the basement of Johnston Hall until 1910, when the college purchases two old buildings on Michigan Street. The students refurbish the buildings and build another concrete structure as part of their training. The College of Engineering occupies these buildings until 1941. 1909 — Daisy Wolcott is the first woman to receive a degree from Marquette. — Marquette organizes a summer program, a first among Catholic schools. 1910 — Marquette ends a short affiliation with the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, and establishes its own College of Music. The college closes in 1930. — The Robert A. Johnston College of Economics opens. The college is divided into two schools, business administration and A Graduate from the Jazz Age Only one person showed up at the MXh reunion of the Class of 1922 — Peter). Ver-meulen. Mr. Vermeulen, 89, graduated with a degree in mechanical engineering. In his day, he told the Hilltop, engineering students had all the school spirit. “I remember Marquette playing Notre Dame in football. Some of my engineering school friends and I made huge signs and hung them across Wisconsin Avenue in order to get the students fired up, he said. But Marquette lost the game anyway. He had friends outside of the engineering school, too. One was Victor McCormick, who studied law at Marquette in the 1920s. and who donated the money for McCormick Hall, the men s dorm on 16th and Wisconsin. I would ride my bike to school, Mr. Vermeulen reminisced, and Vic would be driven by his chauffeur. Mr. Vermeulen is now retired and lives in Milwaukee, and he still is enthusiastic about his alma mater.

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Opposite Page: Eleventh Street and Grand Avenue as it appeared in the 1920s. Grand Avenue was later renamed Wisconsin Avenue. Left: Basketball didn’t become an intercollegiate sport at Marquette until a quarter of a century after the first football season. But 43 years later, basketball became the most important sport on campus. Bottom Left: At the time of its completion, the Dental Building was the second largest dental education complex in the world. Below: The Marquette Hospital was closed in 1930. Original plans were to build a new hospital, but the Depression determined the hospital's fate never to be reopened. opens. The college is divided into two schools, business administration and journalism, as an experiment (business and journalism as independent courses of study are not common at this time). The experiment is successful, and from 1916 on, the schools operate separately as the College of Business Administration and the College of Journalism. 1915 — The first Hilltop is published. 1916 — Football is now the most popular sport on campus. Track and bowling are also popular. Basketball becomes an intercollegiate sport in 1917. — The Marquette Tribune begins publication. 1918 — The Carnegie Foundation offers the Medical School $500,000 in matching funds for a new building. The additional money is raised by 1922, and Mrs. Harriet Cramer donates another Si million to the cause. Until the Cramer Life Sciences Building is completed in 1932, the medical and life science schools are located in various parts of 'he city. — In the previous school year, enrollment had climbed above 1,000 for the First time. In 1918, enrollment is at 977 because of the war. 1920 — The campus consists of Johnston Hall, the Law School (still in the Mackie house), and some of the houses behind the buildings. For the purpose of expanding. u