University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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the trouble to be not indifference, but the lack of a past. The undergraduate spirit is keeping pace with the march of tradition. A few attempts have been made to manufacture the latter precious article, but though partial success has attended these efforts, it cannot compare with the natural growth, evidence of which we begin to discern here and there. The youth of the institution must always be borne in mind. Six years may seem a long time to the student who has droned through his Greek and Mathematics, but it is a short time for such an eternal creature as a tradition. Wrinkles are not natural to the babe's brow. If we see them there the child looks worn, pinched and ugly. Why, on our walls the vines have reached only the first- story windows. The students here now who are trying to put the Glee Club, the Cap and Gown, and the Oratorical association on a paying and successful basis 5 who are trying to rouse more enthusiastic support for the athletic teamsg who are trying to start literary magazines, daily papers and other enterprises-these students are pion- eers. Wait till the ivy has reached the second story casements. Let tradition go its own natural pace and college spirit will take care of itself. . JY-46 ,NZN4 T yi? 51635, xx? X '- ff' . V-' f,:x i fuk 471 459' H' exff lil Q will 'gif X I' J-Si X x f X l A l 55 pi W I it E , Q itll l ' l l ly f 3 I 'Jig J ir XX Q B, l'.-lqunnf ig' 1 1

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rooms, presses and mailing department. The latest machinery for making a great publishing house will be put in, and the scope of the department widened. The University might well be content to be known only through its Extension Department, which has brought its many advantages for culture and instruction to people who are prevented by circumstances from living on the campus or within daily reach of the quadrangle. During the year 1896-97 the department maintained 95 active Extension centers, with 141 courses in progress. Eight states were repre- sented. The total attendance at the Extension lectures was 29,344, and at the Exten- sion classes 17,382. Twenty-nine lecturers were engaged for the work of the year. In addition to the regular work the department has organized a system of traveling libraries that the student may obtain the necessary reference and text-books recom- mended in the various courses. Beyond our national boundaries the University has made a most creditable show- ing. Polar and Oriental expeditions of discovery and research have all had represent- atives, while our professors in the astronomical, geological and biological departments have been leaders and organizers of parties for furthering investigation in their res- pective realms. The Barrows Lectures, endowed by Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, were delivered in India by john Henry Barrows, D.D., Professorial Lecturer for the University. Probably more exemplary of our astonishing growth than any other feature is the increase of the number of books in the libraries. For the two years ending with April 1, 1898, the additions have amounted to more than 25,000 books. By no means a minor feature is the organized system of afliliated institutions which cooperate with the University. The most important one aiiiliated during the period covered by this chronicle is the Bradley Polytechnic Institute at Peoria, Ill. This institution had the advantage of starting under the general supervision of the University. The opening of the school occurred October 8, 1897. As far as building is concerned the campus is changing as rapidly as the most lin-de-siecle co-ed could desire. The gods from the faculty room on Mount Olympus continue to decorate this little domain in large patches of cold gray and 'fiery red till the effect is most striking and bewildering. But where, oh where, is the landscape gardener to add a softening, inviting touch to the scene? This criticism is, We believe, common only among the men-the women care not a whit for the landscape so long as the trees in front of Kelly are strong enough to support a hammock and old enough to maintain a discreet silence. College spirit, about which so much has been said and written since the iirst student registered at Cobb Hall, is steadily growing. For a long time keen observers thought they saw manifested among the students that insidious germ which for want of a better term we call Harvard indifference. A second glance, however, proved 10

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CD6 Board or CYIISIQQS 0ffiCel'S MARTIN A. RYERSON, PRESIDENT ANDREW MCLEISH, VICE-PRESIDENT CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON, TREASURER HENRY A. RUST, COMPTROLLER THOMAS W. GOODSPEED, SECRETARY m2mbQfS F. T. GATES CHARLES L. HUTCHINSON EDWARD GOODMAN ALONZO K. PARKER WILLIAM HOLDEN FERDINAND W. PECK FREDERICK A. SMITH ELI B. FELSENTHAL MARTIN A. RYERSON WILLIAM R. HARPER DANIEL L. SHOREY HERMANN H. KOHLSAAT XVILLARD A. SMQITH GEORGE C. WALKER. CHARLES C. BOWEN DAVID G. HAMILTON WILLIAM B. BRAYTON THOMAS W. GOODSPEED JESSE A. BALDWIN ANDREW MCLEISH JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR. I2