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

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istorical bhztcb of the Ullnihzrsitp of Qthicagn BY JAMES SPENCER D1cKERsoN 7-,X 1- 45, at ,g A V g fhiff i '42 6 ' sf, af' . ' G Ugg. ' A .5 -sy y ..1, 3- 2 -,hi ru.1r2'c5gi1.z' am''Mraz'f.2A:i,15if1fifii5Qx'ig,M1'qjyf'- X diff 5,,5,x,i.H,X: Kiran W vw. U.,,,i.,' Zi,-if 1 HX A it ,ni os his -'1 . .. .ik X 'Cx ' 1 ' ' 4- . Q52 1' 4 1 Sw gtg, ? ::, if 1 i ,i :aj-E! 1 ,.- ,iii 35:11, ,. ,k1iyL1':r-ia-ir,-'K-f, ,441 :iv . . mm ss-w aiigg-fm iziyzwi LA X 3 .f ---eil fazlrxi,e g'inm33.351.gi1gj5QQf5g5f.1'' '-5' 521324 swat! iff: in mfg ' 3 f f A-f .- f-,,. 24-wfiv' f 'G-2. f. , A, ,, , ,4,:,, I 1 ,,,,,, ,,, zzi ,, TABLET IN HONOR or MARTIN A. RYERSON LWAYS, in the United States, as Bishop Berkely sang, westward the star of empire takes its wayf, That star has lighted the pathway for the school. Steadily as national growth pushed forward the frontier of civilization across the continent, public schools, high-schools, colleges and universities have followed. The growth of population and the forwardmovement of civilization have brought education in their train. There was a University of Chicago established as early as IS5 6, only nineteen years after the town became a city, when Chicago, now counting nearly three millions, boasted of its 84,000 population. The University lived until ISS6, when, wrecked by reason of inadequate charts, of mutinies of the crew, and of indifference of the owners, the craft sank Uunwept, unhonored and unsungn - at least unhonored and unsung - beneath a sea of financial difficulties. It had, however, not lived in vain. It had proved its use- fulness. It had created a sense of educational need. It had aroused that compelling spirit which determined to retrieve misfortune. Guided by a heroic group of men an effort was Page Th Irby-mze

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matters at issue must be approached and dealt with as problems if desirable results are to be obtained. Employers and workers may and frequently do learn these principles and this procedure from their hard knocks. The college man in training can, however, learn much of them at much less cost to himself and others by studying carefully the teachings of experience and by being taught to look for the problem and to examine it in its different aspects. Because of his leadership in community affairs, because of his influence in shaping public opinion, because of the probability that he will be a leader in industry, and because of the tremenduous importance of our industrial relations under modern conditions, the college student finds in labor problems a most important field for study and trainingf, Dr. Basil C. H. Harvey, dean of pre-medical students, exact and rapid in detail, swift and precise in speech, becomes lyric when he meditates upon his science and pro- fession: Long ago when primitive men began their social life, the spirit of the physician had its origin in sympathy, 'In the primal sympathy, Wliicli, having seen, must ever be: In the soothing thoughts that spring Out of human suffer-ing...' this is still the foundation of medical study and service. In the beginning the physician by instinct could bring to his patient only sympathy and magic: nowadays the physician by training owes his patient all that medical science can bring to his aid. So to sympathy he must add knowledge in abundance, and to knowledge, understanding, and to understanding, intellectual power, and to power, character. These are the real objects of the college work of pre-medical students, and the duty of the college is to help in their development. Understanding and intellectual power are best developed in the solution of problems, and he who adds to science by solving some of its problems, and thereby brings light into places now dark, adds to his own power to serve, and also he adds to everybodyis power to serve, for the service which science gives has no limits of place or of time. H There is no speech or language where their voice is not heard: their line is gone out through all the earth and their words to the end of the world. Dean Whittlesey, the young man on the right, is one of the University's own. He was graduated in '13 and manages to be devoted to the University without being senti- mental about if, he Says. l-le likes music-we hear that he attended the Beggars' Opera fourteen times when it was here, and that he sings. He likes the borderline between History and Geography, and I am con- Seqlleflfly regarded as a heretic by the History Department and as unorthodox by gCOgraphc1'S.H He likes undergraduates-says that no ,- one ought to be dean who doesnitg and he distinguishes four classes of M' I themf UD grinds: f2l those who see nothing but outside activities' Q35 those who have sanely balanced programs - they never come to the dean's Ofice-they HTC the ideal WPC: C41 floaters. Nlr. Whittlesey was reluctant to be selecte Sent Us 3 P1Ctl11'C which was mostly filled with trees, and remarked that It has JUS? about the right proportions of humanity and natural scenery 3 to suit me. ' . .152 ELM I ,gl . L,.. , Levy-1 ff .1 .L-.V ,gf 11 Q31fg',,f2?'efff--ie:-A. iff ,ef ' ff-4 . . , , df if-win.-7 r ' nj ,V 1 , A, 1 aff. 3-A-M1Q1:,,,. f 'r g . t -r 2 A i 5-f:lff:f ,.f, . ' d from the Faculty as a horrible example, and he

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FIRST UNIVERSITY or CI-IXCAGO BUILDING made to reestablish higher education - to found a new University of Chicago. Not to dwell at length upon the initial stages of the movement to create a new university, it may be said that Mr. john D.qRockefeller of New York, made an offer to contribute S600,000. provided Baptists and those whom they could inspire would give s400,000, the million thus provided to found a college. Soon after this million-dollar fund was subscribed the plan was enlarged so as to project a university. From that early day of comparatively small things the University of Chicago has developed until now the endowment of the University has become over 329,635,000 It possesses, including the grounds of Yerkes Observatory at Lake Geneva, Wis., 170 acres of land reserved for educational purposes, upon which there have been erected forty odd buildings, land and buildings representing a cost of over SI 1,871,000 Its assets in 1890, the year when its charter was granted, consisted chiefly of ambition, hope, courage, determination, and a splendid opportunity, from which was to be deducted the spirit of pessimism inherited from a previous failure. In l922 its total assets in endowment, land and buildings have increased to about 2'o50,000,000. The expenditures in the budget for the first fiscal year were estimated at about fl3300,000. It will be observed that within the little more than three decades which have elapsed since its class-rooms welcomed the first of the more than 80,000 students who have entered its halls, it is expending annually for current expenses treble the amount of its original million dollars of capital. With commendable judgment and good taste the Board of Trustees, before a single hall or laboratory was erected on the prairie site of the new institution, determined that its teachers and students should be adequately and suitably housed by build'ings whose Page Tliirty-rw: