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

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G 301911 GP emo Gowns' the crowds running from 6,000 to 13,000 people. As rooters the Japanese were wonderful,and even after we had left the field they would remain standing in their seats, singing their inspiring songs and waving their flags in the face of defeat. Enough cannot be said ofthe way in which the games were conducted, and especially of the way in which they were umpired. Baron Mishima acted as umpire and his decisions in all cases were unquestionable. After we had passed a most enjoyable month in Tokyo, we left for a tour of western Japan as guests of the Osaka Mainichi Shimbun, the largest newspaper of Osaka. We played three games for them in Osaka against Waseda University, winning all three by the scores of 8 to 4, 20 to 0, and I2 to 2. These games were well attended, as ours was the first foreign team to play in that city. In the week we saw the cities of Naru and Kyoto with their wonderful temples, and on October 31 sailed from Kobe through the beautiful Inland Sea and across to Shanghai in China. We spent two days in this Gay City of the East and then sailed south to Hong- kong. It was at this point that we boarded the good ship Kaifong, 987 tons, and started across the rough China sea for Manila. The captain said we had a good voyage. The day following we found ourselves on the ball Held facing the Marines, the champions of Manila. There, in the midst of rain and mud, we met our hrst defeat in the Orient. A few days later, however, we turned the tables on them, and then won a double header from an All- Filipino team and the 12th Infantry team. This ended our baseball schedule. It was with lagging steps that we left the Americans who had entertained us so royally for a week, and got into the launch which was to take us out to the ship. In fact, Ehrhorn, Boyle, and Steinbrecher yielded to the situation, and remained in Manila for a few months in order to see more of the islands. Professor Bliss, Captain Pegues, and Ralph Cleary left us on the return trip at Hongkong to go westward around the world, while we came eastward. Thus, there were only seven of the party, Manager Page, Sunderland, Paul, Collings,Glen,and Orno Roberts, and Baird,who landed at Seattle on December 23 after a trip across the wintry Pacihc. Glen and Orno Roberts spent Christmas with relatives in Tacoma, Baird stopped in Montana, and the remaining four arrived in Chicago on the night of December 26 to be met by an enthusiastic crowd of rooters. Thus ended the 10,000 mile journey. Before I close I wish to express to the University and to President Judson the team's deepest appreciation for the wonderful opportunity given them of seeing the Ear East. l 13

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ca egign ,CID ann oocmnn- The Invasion of the East BY ONE or THE TEAM On September 2, IQIO, the baseball team of the University of Chicago left for a series of games in Japan, at the invitation of VVaseda University of Tokyo. The party consisted of Pro- fessor Bliss, faculty representativeg Manager Pageg Captain Peguesg Paul, Cleary, Sunderland, Ehrhorn, Collings, Boyle, Steinbrecher, Glen, and Orno Roberts, and Baird. In spite of the fact that there were thirteen in the party and that we left on a Friday night, the team had a wonderfully successful trip from every standpoint. Following a strenuous week of barnstorming, in which we won a majority of the games, we arrived in Seattle on Thursday, September 8. Here we were met by an enthusiastic crowd of Japanese representing the Mikado team, champions of the Pacific Coast Japanese League, and royally entertained. The next day, however, we beat our hosts by a score of I5 to I, the Japanese players being exceedingly nervous because of their desire to register the first defeat against our players by a japanese team. Saturday morning, September IO, found the bunch waving farewell to the United States as the Kamakura Maru slowly turned and headed down Puget Sound, bound for Yokohama, 4300 miles away. As the ship stopped for only a few hours at Victoria, B. C., we were soon going again in earnest. We continued for sixteen days without sighting so much as a single sail, and, although a few of us experienced some new feelings, mostly unpleasant, we enjoyed the voyage over. Practice was indulged in regularly in order to keep in condition for our series in Tokyo. But this was anything but beneficial to the manager's stock of baseballs, which dwindled rapidly as ball after ball was thrown into the water. We sighted land for the hrst time on the afternoon of September 25, when we passed a northern island of japan, and the next morning we ran up Tokyo Bay to Yokohama. VVe were heartily welcomed at the wharf by Stuffy', Place, a former maroon athlete, and several other foreigners, together with a crowd of Japanese. As we went from the wharf to the railroad station on our way to Tokyo, we experienced our lirst ride in Homo-mobiles. Carriages were waiting for us at the Shimbashi station in Tokyo, and we were shortly established in the Im- perial hotel. i Despite the fact that it rained seventeen out of the twenty-eight days we spent in Tokyo, we managed to play seven games, winning all of them. We beat our host's, Vfaseda University, by the scores ofg to 2, 5 to O, and I5 to 4, but were forced to do our best before we registered three victories over Keio University by the scores of3 to 1, 2 to I QIO inningsj, and 5 to 2 fIO inningsj. The second game was won from the VVaseda alumni team by the score of II to 2. Although we had been frequently warned against the Japanese players, we were surprised to see the high-class game they played. They are excellent lielders, daring and swift base run- ners an l accurate throwers Jlayinva heady tivrhtinvvameuntilthe last man is out in the last 1 ., L 1 . ,I ' 1 b. -I , b I inning. Their weakest spot is in batting. The games were exceedingly well attended, T T 1 2 Ll.

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carter IQII HD ann ooannd- Mr. Rockefeller's Gift to the University of Chicago TREVOR ARNETT N a letter dated December 13, 1910, addressed to the President and Trustees of the University of Chicago, Mr. John D. Rockefeller in- formed them that he had caused to be set aside for the University of 1 Chicago, from the funds of the General Education Board, income bear- pgh ,.1l' ing securities ofthe present market value of approximately SI0,000,000, Eak-QOL A the same to be delivered to the UI1lV6fSIIy'.lD ten equal annual ,install- 'f7 U ments beginning January 1, 1911, each installment to bear income to the University from the date of such delivery only. In making this great gift Mr. Rockefeller closed in a single and final gift his contri- butions to the University. He states in his letter as follows: The sum I now give is intended to make provision, with such gifts as may reasonably be expected from others, for such added buildings, equipment and endowment as the depart- ments thus far established will need. This gift completes the task which I have set before my- self. The founding and support of new departments or the development of the varied and alluring fields of applied science, including medicine, I leave to the wisdom of the Trustees as funds may be furnished for these purposes by other friends of the University. In making an end to my gifts to the University, as I now do, and in withdrawing from the Board of Trustees my personal representatives, whose resignations I enclose, I am acting on an early and permanent conviction that this great institution being the property of the people should be controlled, conducted and supported by the people, in whose generous efforts for its upbuilding I have been permittedsimply to cooperate, and I could wish to consecrate anew to the great cause of education the funds which I have given, if that were possible, to present the institution a second time, in so far as I have aided in founding it, to the people of Chicago and the Westg and to express my hope that under their management and with their generous support the University may be an increasing blessing to them, to their children and to future generations. The record of donations made to the University by Mr. Rockefeller brought to an end by this gift is a notable one. On May 15, 1889, he made his lirst gift of ,7lC6oo,ooo to the American Baptist Education Society to be used for an endowment fund for a college to be established in Chicago, the income only of which was to be used for current expenses on condition that ,8400,000 more be given by good and responsible parties to be used for the purpose of purchasing land and erecting buildings. From that date to December 13, 1910, when he made the gift of81o,ooo,ooo, he has donated to the University sums aggregating approximately 83-S,OO0,000. The gifts were for a variety of purposes. The greater portion has been for endowment, While some were for purchasing land adjacent to the University on each side of the Midway to assure to the University a sufiicient amount of land contiguous to the original campus for all possible expansion for generations to come, some, though small in amount compared with the total gifts, were for buildings, and the remainder was given for current expenses and such special needs as arose from time to time. In making the gift of81o,ooo,ooo Mr. Rockefeller stated that it was his desire that at least the sum of8I,5oO,oOO be used for the erection and furnishing of the University Chapel. I-Iis idea of the relation the chapel should hold to the University' is expressed as follows: It is my desire that at least the sum of One Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars fSI,SO0,000D be used for the erection and furnishing of a University Chapel. As the spirit of religion should penetrate and control the University, so that building which represents religion ought to be the central and dominant feature of the University group. The Chapel may ap- propriately embody those architectural ideals from which the other buildings, now so beauti- fully harmonious, ihave taken their spirit, so that all the other buildings on the campus will ., Q ai f ' I 15.91 tv,-,ge-L, ,'.j,ss 14