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

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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!

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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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learn from the weak. Tolerance, sympathy, kindness, the generous word, the helpful act, all typical of the woman We commemorate. will be the contribution of the women who go forth from Ida Noyes Hall to take part in the upbuilding of the- new civilization which is to come. ' The government of women's activities and guidance was for thirty-years under the capable leadership of Miss Talbot. Sagacious, diplomatic, kind, and possessing a rare humor, Miss Talbot was be10ved by all the women under her leadership. It was she who was responsible for the term 'lUniversity woman'a replacing the term lbco'ed. The University women were responsible to themselves. and the general public opinion of the eommun1ty;I It isnlt done guided their activities rather than It's against the rules,n arid this attitude has persisted t0 the present da . 'y'llhat elusive quality known as college spirit'1 was much more prevalent on the Chicago campus before the World War than it is today; student organizations made great strides under Judson. One of the earlier attempts to break up cliques and encourage a feeling of unity was the first Interclub dinner, in 1907. The Yellow Jackets, the Blue Bottles and the Black Bonnets were, strangely enough, the honor societies for women, Formed in 1914; the names were symbolized in attractive Rand much coveted e little pints. One of the most popular of the male organizations was the ThreetQuarters Club, organized in 1895. In that year, freshmen could not pledge a fraternity in the first three quarters at the University, and the Three-Quarters Club supplied their need for social activity. Theineophytes performed stunts at football games, and- many were the amusing escapades they engineered on campus during the noon hour. In 1912 the club' was enlarged to admit three members of each fraternity, and two nonlfraternity men; the latter were designated as leerharians. The next year the rules were changed to provide for four candidates from each fraternity, only two of whom became hnal members, and a total of ten nonlfraternity men. But the beating of pledges, and the Opinion that the club was an inordinate time'consumer, brought so much pressure to bear that it drifted into obscurity. The class of 1911 probably possessed the greatest amount of school spirit in the history of the UanErSlty. The women voluntarily wore green bands around the1r dainty wrists for purposes of identification among the men; the seniors pledged themselves to grow mustaches tshades of the presentvday mustache retest, the juniors donned blue-knobbed caps, and the sophomores wore grey toques with yellow knobs. . Song contests were devices used to stimulate school spirit. By 1910, students emerged from research to declare that pepular music was the reason for the decline of college songs. To apply ointment to the wound, in March; 1911, Blackfriars sponsored a. song contest at the University; prizes'of fifty dollars each were oEered for the beet lyrics and music. The judging, originally scheduled for April'second, had to be postponed h for lack of suitable m'aterial. ' Since 1910 students have had their day measured by the Alice Freeman Palmer chimes. Stagg requested that .the Alma Mater be played each night at 10:06 o'clock by the bells suspending in Mitchell Tower as a hint to athletes to retire. Another landmark in 1910 was the adoption of the University seal - long desired by Harper, The design was evolved by judson, Ryerson. and Hutchinv s o n . T h e :1 main figures, a phoenix and a book, typif y im' tn 0 r t a 1 i ty and knowl' edge respec- tively, t h e surrtmndin g flames eomv m e in o r a t e t h e .g r e a t Chicago fire and the rev building of the city. The original de' sign, with - the book su' perimposed on the phoer nix, is carved in Harper Library. The design as 1': Exists today-the book above the phoenixeis exemplified by the plaque Ion the ground lloor of Mitchell Tower. loomers, and basketball. o Junior-Sem'or rivalry, . First Fraternity Reformations Until 1910, fraternities were run on the familiar cut- throat basis. Rushing .was 'free and unrestricted. Some men were pledged during. itheir-second year of 'high school! Underlying the change in policy to unity and higher standards' was the Interfratemity Sing, held for the first time during the Alumni Week of 1911. Rushihg rules were formed, and the Intetfraternity Council set up to administer them in january of 1912. ' - Rushing was prohibited from .MQnday morning to Thursday evening, in order that members and - freshmer1 might not be diverted from their studies; another regu' lation forbade Htampering with men, 'onee they had pledged a fraternity. In 1914, rushing 0f highvsehool men was tontined t0 the last half of. their'senior year. Naturally rules were broken, but punishment, consisting of un' favorable publicity in the. Maroon or restriction of ' pledging activity, was levied in the hope that illegal rushing would be eliminated to the furthest possible extent. Scholarship rating of fraternities began in the 'Efst Seventeen