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1929 CAP fMXO COUin ( « Actieg President Woo ' dward The University of Chicago has achit-xed in thirty-eiiiht years a remarkable position in the educational world. (Hir i raduate schools enjoy a world-wide reputation; our scientists and scholars have marie conlriliutions of fundamental importance to the advancement of knowletl,t, ' e and the welfare of humanity. Nowhere in America is there a better place for an under graduate college. With the opportunities afforded in a metropolitan city for extra-cvu-ricular edu- cation and for the making of contacts which will be useful upon graduation are combined the advantages of living and working together in the atmosphere of intellectual freedom and curiosity which pervades a real University community. It is the purpose of the Univer itv to niak.- tlie undergraduate college as distincti e as the graduate schools. The curriculum is being improved, greater attention is being paid to student guidance, an efficient health service has beeii installed, a beautiful new chapel has been dedicated, a large number of scholar- ships has been oft ' ered. And now we are about to erect new quadrangles of dormitories, with adjacent plav fields, ])articularly for undergraduates, which will enable us to round out our educational iirogram and to ])rovide unsurpassed facilities for a wholesome social life. Huilding, as we are, upon a sound fouiidaiion, I feel th.ii the future of the University depends only upon our own w) dom in guiding il development. To the end that its great opportuniu- may be realized 1 liespeak -our loyalty and vour su|)nort. — Fki.dkkk k W ' oodw xud. Pai c Nhictccn
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1929 CAP fitlD COUin ( r Harold Swin Lairp Bell Trustees Fifty beautiful buildings; 105 acres of valuable city land for campus pur- poses ; a distinguished faculty of 800 persons, manv of them internationally famous: assets of approximatel - $76,000,000, (.f which about $43,000,000 is endowment; 2,185 Doctors of Philosophy trained and serving as leaders in edu- cation and research throughout the nation ; 14,500 students last year. These are some of the things which justify our being proud of a comparatively youthful university. It is perhaps natural that anyone of the present generation should take all this for granted, not knowing the ef¥ort which lies behind the accomplishment. It is an entrancing story — well told in Dr. Goodspeed ' s Story of the University of Chicago. In essence it is this : A conviction in the minds of a small group of men that there should be a great university in Chicago commensurate witli the strength of the city itself; a determination to bring this about, which involved con incing a wealthy philanthropic man of the need and the opportunity and inducing bim to become its founder; raising a large sum of money to meet the conditional gift of the founder; securing as president a man marvelously endowed with the ability to plan and to organize, who, through his fifteen years of leader- ship, became known as one of the three great university presidents in the nation ' s historj-; and enlisting the cooperation of the strong leaders of Chicago to accept the responsibility of developing and safeguarding the new University. This was the colossal task which resulted in the formation of the first Board of Trustees of the University. Since the incorporation of the University in September, 1890, seventv-two persons have served as Trustees. Of the present Board of thirty members, two have served continuouslv since the beginning and one since 1900. two were elected in 1909, three in ' 1912, two in i ' )14, two in 1919, three in 1022, five in 1923, two in 1924. one in 1926, four in 1027. and three in 1920. ( )| ihi- thirty, eleven are alumni of the University. lr
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