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

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A Review of the University Edgar J. Goodspeed Secretary to the President HIS is the thirtieth year of the Universityls operation. In it the enrollment has reached 12,000. In the summer quarter the University had the largest quarter's attendance in it's history, 6,458. The Autumn attendance, 6,215, iikewise exceeded all previous Autumn recordst For five years the University has made no noticeable addi- tion to its Buildings, but this year has seen building operations resumed with the erection of the new Quadrangle Club. This marks the beginning of a new building program, which will include the Theology Building and Chapel, the Billings Hospital and Epstein Dis- pensary Group across the Midway. and later the great University Chapel. These buildings will add very greatly to the beauty and impressiveness of the University. it is characteristic of the University that in it both instruction and investigation are carried on with equal enthusiasm, so that it includes not only the colleges with their vigor- ous social and athletic activities, but graduate schools, which are recognized centers of research. It is this harmony of diversities that constitutes the University, and the spirit of generous cooperation which has made our life together in the University what it is; is the spirit that Chicago men and women carry on with them into the work of life. 5':th ?ahm 20 u-u-IIIII!!! - mungunuu .. queuuuu .--u.... i u. . n.- - uuuu auuuuuux-kuuuuuu - xquuuuu .- nuunu-uu- tnunuln. I- nuuuunu ulllli A Inn b.tuuuu...r n... ....u.- u..-

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The School of Commerce and Administration 1... C. Marshall Dean N 1894 Professor J. Laurence Laughlin started plans for the establishment in the University of Chicago of a school for business training. In 1902 a separate school with its own faculty was authorized. The school was known as the School of Commerce and Politics, but later the name was changed to Commerce and Administration. A reorgan- ization occurred in l912 and a curriculum containing more technical courses was formu- lated. This program was just getting under way when, in 1916, Hobart Williams provided an endowment for the school in memory of Eli B. Williams and Harriet B. Williams. This endowment yields annually about eighty thousand dollars and has placed the work of the school upon a firm financial basis. Showing the growth of the school are the attendance tigures. In 1912 there'were 74 and in the autumn quarter of IQZI there were 653, of whom 565 were undergraduates, 49 graduates, and 39 unclassified students. The school, in its curriculum, has rejected the policy of scattered business subjects, and has developed a unified curriculum in terms of outstanding business functions. In the administration of its curriculum, the school seeks to arrange an individualized program for each student. It seeks to provide for each student according to his ability. Those who warrant it by good work. are eligible to ninvitation sections where the presentation of the work is more rapid and on a more mature level. An eHort is made to knit together the work of the entire curriculum by such devices as a general examination covering four year's work; a graduation thesis upon a topic which will reach into all the various aspects of the curriculum; and, in the senior year, a correlating course in Problems of Business Policy. One of the mast encouraging signs for the future is the interest of the recently organized Alumni Association in the affairs of the school. No other division of the: University has a more loyal or interested body of alumni, and their organized cooperation with the faculty and the students of the school will mean much. The School of Commerce and Administration -is next to the youngest of the University family. Its vigorous youth holds promise of an interesting manhood. XCW

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