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The celebration of an anniversary generally implies a sort of amazement at the durability of the survivor. Anything can happen in this world, the feehng is, and to last for any length of time is an achievement in itself. This is not so for a university, however. Their life-spans are naturally measured in centuries. The Universities of Bologna, Paris, and Oxford are over eight hundred years old. In 1892. Harvard was already two hundred and fifty years old; schools in Bolivia and New Zealand were already matriculating the grandsons of alumni. A university was opened a thousand miles deep in Siberia two years before the cornerstone t0 Cobb Hall was laid. In short, we are an upstart. With one possible exception tKyoto University in J aparQ the Uni- versity of Chicago is the youngest of the great 30110015 0f the world. Even for an American institution, we have a short past to look back on. My grandmother remembers a family picnic in the prairie we now call Hyde Park. It has all hap- pened within living memory. How did it happen, though? Was 1892 an auspicious year to be born in? North Texas State and West Virginia Wesleyan were started in that year also; we have evidently done something that they have not. Did the growth of America make a great new school inevitable? But Chicago bettered thousands of competitors to become that school. Money-lots of it-certainly helped. But the University of Texas has over twice as large an endowment as we do, and Harvard four times as large; and we have achieved some parity even with the latter. The only history Chicago has is that of the big investment and the big risk. If we can glance 16 away grumbling. from the microstructure of aca- demic life, we see how often the University has tried something big and new. The Hutehius col- lege and the remaking of Hyde Park are obvious examples: highly questionable. Clearly unsatis- factory. delightfully controversial. We prefer to Haunt academic fashion rather than follow it. in
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the hope that we might set it. Chicago scholars have always tended to form subversive opposi- tions to intellectual conformity. In the past they have upset textbooks in physics and soci- ology; right now, in economics and humanistic criticism, as examples. Chicago has remained im- portant because it refuses to be ignored. There is, : ye, ief'e :o'MV: or has been. a Chicago School of everything. Our record, then, has a curious flavor. We are confidently cynical about our achievements; they were intended to be provoking, not to be praised. We have little past, and want none. We would rather look back on seventy-five years of an ever-developing future. 17
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