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

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$2,500 a year and an associate professorship. but that's all! That was enough! A weaker man would have fainted. Grahitiuna wnnttnmh Great as the loss of Harper was to the University, it was modified somewhat by the fact that there was a capable man ready to fill the gap left by his death. Henry Pratt Judson was well schooled in Harperls policies, ideals, and hopes for the future. for he had served a number of years as Assistant to the President. This factor come bined with the close friendship between the two men, based on a similarity of ideals and opinions, accounts largely for Harper signifying Judson as his suceessor. Judson energetically took control. It took but a short time for him to demonstrate his inheritance of his prev decessor's organizing skill and practicality. By 1909 the annual deficit was extinct. Rockefeller, who had always considered it his duty to see the University financially sound, now felt that he was able to withdraw. So, with a ten-milliontdollar gift to the General Education Fund, he announced that he would make no more contributions He might have added uuntil the next time. John D., Jr. i011 the Board of Trustees from 1898-191m had already been eontributing generously to the Universityls funds. and was to continue to do so in the future. Also, in 1910 a gift of two'million dollars was made by Hobart Williams. With hnancial matters so hrm Judson turned to that problem of expanding the Universityls Educational facili' ties. At this point Judson demonstrated his soundness;' like Harper he was a classical scholar; yet he was not blind to the increasing streSs being placed on scientific research, and to meet this trend' he concentrated on enlarging the scientific departments of- the University. The Physics department was the first to feel his touch. In. 1910 an annex to Ryerson Laboratory was added by the original donor. ' It was in 1912 that Harper Memorial Library was ' dedicated. The library answered a need long felt by H-arper-that of adequate and safe library facilities. Harper once said that he never retired at night without the terrible dread that perhaps by morning the temporary library, with all its valuable books, might be destroyed by iire. The imposing English'Gothic bui1ding, inspired by the Kings College Chapel at Cambridge, Christ Church, and Magdalen College at Oxford, was made poSsible by contributions from the many friends of the former President. Scientific progress was continued in 1915 as a result of a $260,000 gift from julius Rosenwald to be used for a geology and geography building. RosenwaIcI Museum completed the row of buildings planned to occupy the south side of 5 8th Street. In 1914 the monumental Classics building was dedicated -thus another dream of Harperls was realized It was made possible by $150,000 bequeathed by Mrs. Hiram Kellyr to the University for a memorial to her husband. In 1916 the long planned drive for obtaining funds to establish a Medical School was begun. However, the World War delayed action so that it was not until 1922 that actual building was resumed with the starting of temporary laboratories for Pathology, Bacteriv ology. and Hygiene. In the following year thetemporary red brick structures were finished and named after Howard Taylor Ricketts. whose isolation of the typhus fever germ, recognized as one of the most important of all achieve; ments in the history of medical research. Ricketts un- fortunately died of typhoid fever while carrying on his research in Mexico. It was not until late in the 305 that the medical group, as we know it today, was actually. started. A fund of $5,300,000 was raised in a surprisingly short time. One million dollars was contributed by the General Education Board iRockefellei-y; and another million by a quartet consisting of C. K. G. Billings, Charles H. and Albert Billings, and Dr. Frank Billings. Mr. and .Mrs. Julilis Rosenwald gave $500,000. Other donors were Mrs. F. H.. Rowson, Dr. Norman Bridge, Martin A. Ryerson, R. T. Crane, JL, Charles R Crane, J. Ogden Armour, Messi. Max Epsteins, Shedd, Pullman, and Haskell. Judson, as his predecessor, favored athletiCs as a unify; ing factor in University life. Consequently by 1914 the athletic plant had been enlarged by adding to Stagg Field iformerly Marshall Field, but renamed in honor of Chicago's famous coachl the west stands and the surrounding stone walls. These well earned improvements made it one of the best Stadiums in the country. Although l06 was a bad year for athletics on the Mid! way, the school came -.' , back stronger than ever in '07 by retain: ing the swimming and tennis and recovering the football and has ketbail championships, and hoIding them, football until .09 anti basketball until 111. Furthermore, the days of baseball, for any other teams, were over from Chicagols point of view, with Ned Merriam, Pat Page, and Slip Madigan on the scene. In the l0? game with Illinois ihnal score 4243 favor of Chicagm the football team was 0 Harper Library in con- struction. Fifteen

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founding of the Order of Blackfriars can be traced back to 1898 and the University Settlements need for money. To raise funds, Professor George Vincent, inspired by the success of the productions of the Haresfoot Club at Wisconsin, called together the faculty and students to organize a show to be presented by Professors Linn, Barrett, and Miller. The show, on March 10, 1898, sans females, with A. A. Stagg in one of the leads and Henry Gordon Gale in the chorus. netted $1,600 for the Settle! ment. Not until 1902 was another production attempted, which again was successful in materially helping the Settlement. With this basis for a oermanent organizav tion, Frank R. Adams became the first Abbott in 1904 with a board including one man from each fraternity. The name of the show for that year was llThe Passing of Pali Khan, derived from the nickname for the subject, Political Economy. Costumes were furnished by professors1 wives, sisters. and sweethearts, who, no doubt, contribr uted mueh practical advice in overcoming costume diiiiculties. Later in the 19003 the women gave a quad! tangle fete with Maypole dances on the second night of each show. By this time the Board of Superiors was reduced to five men. Only men in the cast or chorus were eligible for membership, thus the technicians, an indi5' pensable factor in producing a show, were left out. While campus life was developing, tragedy was prepar' ing its' entrance. The heavy duties of the University seemed to be wearing on Dr. Harper. After a rest in Europe, but still unmindful of his hidden malady, he continued his work. In 1904 President Harper told Dr. Goodspeed and Major Rust that he had received his death sentence-cancer. During the remaining 18 months of his life he wrote five books and continued to preside over aitairs of the'University. With true efhcieney he consulted with-Dr. Judson, preparing in detail his funeral program. Vigorous as an individual, he left a vigorous memory, for he requestedlthat except for the half day of the funeral, all classes should be continued. President Harper died on January 10, .1906. Black Bagging .A. prominent feature in the Universityls development was Harperls black bagt One never knew what endow' merits might be found in it after one of Harper's trips; or what new faculty names might appear on contracts secreted in his bag' after friendly visits to other inr' stitutions. Early in the Uni versity's history, while still gathering a faculty; Harper received word that at Clark University there was a breach in the faculty. Hastening to the scene of action with the black bag full of unsigned contracts, Harper profited from this situation which re! sulted in the resignation of fifteen members of the faculz ty. The black hag returned full of signed contracts. Three outstanding signa- tures were those of Michel' .5011, Net, and Whitman. ' Judson, and John D. Infheirs to the throne. Fou rteen Financing was on a more clashing, if local scale. Ru' rots would reach Harper ipeonle often wondered if it was instinctt and he would rush off in his buggy, bag in hand. Yerkes, Chicago utility' baron at the turn of the century, one morning received a plump, hurried-Iooking individual into his inner sanctum. Somewhat startled, he covered by saying, Have a seat and after .a second glancel HIn fact, have two seats. Harper, put on the defensive by the personal implication, reeovered with the statement Pin the President of the University of Chi- cago. A few minutes ensued during which he explained with an aggrieved air what and where the U. of C. was. Then, becoming more enthused, he explained how a uni- versity existed;- adding that there was a lamentable lack to be met before the University of Chicago could take her placeiamong self-respecting universities! That deficiency could result in the commemoration of some noble, public: minded, to'sa'y nothing of generouse etc. Despite the linguistic camouflage, Yerkes got the idea. Harper wanted an observatory; he asked, How much? Harper was not prepared'with figures; he knew though that the Work would cost much. Yerkes put out a feeler-$S0,000. No. no! Wouldnlt do! Yerkes raised the ante to $100,000. Harper hedged. He didnt think that much would do the donors name justice. Yerkes stalled. But the subtle mention of the fact that the market was I still open and the vision idrawn by Harperl of-a green hill crested by a monumental Yerkes observatory did the trick. Yerkes got a monopoly at the cost of $250,000. The evidence went back to the campus in the black bag. The same procedure resulted in the widow Snell's con, tribution of Snell Hall in memory of her husband, notoriv ously skilled in financial transactions. However, Harper's efficiency went into reverse when he negotiated with A. A. Stagg. Stagg, situated in New Jersey at the time. was called in to interview Harper. .After passing a. barricade of secretaries, he entered a room only to see the top of a bent head belonging to a man. industriously writing. Harper continued to write as Stagg shuflled'nervously from one foot to the other. Two more paragmpththen the head snapped up only to snap out: Give you $1200 a year and an 1'nsttuctorship.ll Another paragraph and silence. Stagg was too dum' founded to speak. At the time he didn't make that much, and his future prospects could not be compared with those at Chicago. His thoughts were interrupted by a terse, liRaise it to $2,000 and an assistant professorship. ttBut, buteIe, Stagg was stopped. All right, all right,

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0 Ida Noyes site from Harper Tower. so sure of itself, and the day was so hot that when an Illinois back broke through the Chi! cago line Wally Steffen lay down saying that it Wasn't worth it and trackman Ned Merriam chased the Illini back the length of the field and hnally caught him a few yards short of the goal. Also that year a rough battle tee sembling a football game, resulted in Wis: consinls defeat, and netted Chicago the Cone ference Basketball Championship. The '08 National Track Championship was pulled out of the hre by Ned Merriam who won the linal event. In 1910 the famous Japan series of baseball games was started by Waseda University's inviting a number of American baseball teams over to play them. Since that time Chicago has played live series, in all about Fifteen games, with the Japanese here and in Japan. It was noticed each year that the Japanese gave our team much stiller corn: petition. In 1910 Chicago again won the basketball title and in '11 Ira Davenport led the track team to a sham! pionship in the newly originated indoor season. In 1912 Chicago reaped great 'interseetional publicity by its 60 defeat of Cornell, the strongest of the im'pregnahle Easterq football teams. - - Nels Norgren, a1 twelvealetter man, was invaluable to the University's capture of the foBtball and basketball conference titlesjn 19131 Another bluearibbon traqk team was in ,e'vidence in 1915; its star was the great negro runner, Binge Desmond, now a leading Harlem physician Alonzo Stagg was ohe of the first to decry athletic subsidizing in 1917... By 1921 the Maroons were making consistently poorer showings. At this time the Daily Maroon began a campaign against compulsory gym for all studentst But in.1922, athletics reached a sudden new high; attendance-at football games broke all records. Carl Greenleaf presented the huge 'University of Chicago drum, the diameter of which is eight feet. A skin, the largest available, had been selected for one side, but it . required two days of combing the entire Chicago Stock! yards to find another that even approximated it in size! Sixteen I '. .- - ts! Ln.x .11....95, .. I r1-i v-r 3'31. t I: i AD 2 ,. The C book was offered for the Erst time in 1912; it met with instant success. and has since become an invaluable incentive to interest in athletice The Women Awaken Womenls activities especially underwent great expan' sion during the Judson administration; the influential guidance of Dean of Women, Marion Talbot, and the building of Ida Noyes Hall were the factors mainly responsible. The location of women's gymnasium headquarters had ranged from a Sunday-school room of the Hyde Park Baptist Church to the ever'accommodating Lexington Hall! But always the students dreamed of a womenls building. Vainly they attempted to raise funds. through citcuses, penny races, and the sale of anjssue of the uMatroon, but until the gift of $300,000 was made by Mr. La. Verne Noyes, in 1913, the dream did not become an actuality. Mrs. Judson, in her husbandls absence, arose in the middle of the night to write and suggest to Mr. Noyes that he donate a womenls building to, the University in memory of his recently deceased wife, Ida Noyes. Conr trary to Mrs. Judsonls qualms and fears, Mt. Noyes responded generously; the actual donation was announced at the Julyr convocation in 1913, the architects were ent gaged immediately, and construction began. Since an atmosphere of hospitable familiarity was det sired, the building was conceived in the spirit of 3. Tudor Manor House planned around a cloistered court. On the afternoon before its dedication lwhich took place at the time of the Quarter Centennial in 1915-161, a group of women presented a masquee The Gift ethe story of which is embodied in the murals of Ida Noyes Theatre. The comer stone was laid on April 17, 1911 No better expression 01 the aims and ideals of Ida. Noyes Hall can be obtained than from Miss Marion Talbot's dedication speech, which reads in part: I speak not only for myself but for all the women of the University when I assure you, Mr. Noyes, and you Mr. President, that this cornerstone means a mighty impulse toward the truly great things of life. Here self-discovery and selflcontrol will lead to social co'operation and mutual understanding. The weak will learn from the strong, and the strong will 0 Misses.Talbot and Breckirm'dge e guiding spirits for the 'tUniw versal Woman!