University of Rochester - Interpres Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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. ' fe l 1 y iiff it .fa . .E . . I ff- ' 0- 5,,:xll di i .Q 1 r rl 1 Q L 301: 'Y ?1 . H . Ef l f sgssittgi 9 A s Ei if i N J I e b E g al Q History of the University I by Hugh A. Smilb, '07, Alumni Secretary EARLY DEVELOPMENT-MARTIN BREWER ANDERSON N This is a day of great accomplishment and still greater romise for the University of Rochest r. Recent recipient of millions of dollars for an expansive building program, backed by correspondiiig millions for endowment, it has become a university in fact, as well as in name. Its Eastman Schobl of Music, recently enlarged, is probably unsurpassed, in equipment and resources at least, by airy institution of its kind in the world. Its richly endowed School of Medicine and Dentistry, in operla- tion since the fall of 1915, is already making a place for itself among the great medical schools bf America. And now it is completing on an unusual campus site of 87 rolling acres, flanking the banks of the Genesee River, a beautifully planned College for Men, which, with the rededication of the present campus to the College for Women, will place the older departments on an equal plane with its great new schools. i Although bearing the name of the city which has harbored it for eighty years, the University is not, and never has been, a city college in any sense ofthe term, but an independently endowed i '- stitution. It was established in 1850, having its inception in a movement among the Baptists of tile state, which led several professors and a number of students of what was then Madison University, at Hamilton, N, Y., to transfer to the more populous community of Rochester. The new institution was established in a humble building previously known as the Uniteli States Hotel. While thus denominational in origin, like so many colleges of that early day, it has long ago become entirely non-sectarian in its organization, administration and control. 1 That the movement attracted more than local attention at the time is indicated by the interesting, though wholly fanciful, version given it by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who related that a landlord in Rochester, possessing a hostelry which he thought would bring in more revenue as a universityi, put in a few books, sent for a coach-load of professors and by the time green peas were ripe had graduated a class of students. l The new institution gave instruction during the first year to seventy-one men, with a faculty of eight professors and instructors, and graduated its first class often men in July, 1351. It was termed The Collegiate Department of the University of Rochester, and that was destined to remain the sole department for many years to come. Its provisional charter, granted to the petitioners by the Board of Regents in 1850, was made absolute on january 10, 1861, during which year it completed its first new building and moved out to its present campus of twenty-four elm-shaded acres, then ai meadow about one mile from the heart of the city. l The University has been singularly fortunate in its executives. Following the early chancellorshi of Ira Harris, came Martin Brewer Anderson, the first president, who served from 1855 to 1889 an was a giant among the educators ofhis day. Thou h handicapped by restricted resources, he won fo the budding institution a wholesome respect in edzucational circles which it has never relinquished His successor, David Jayne Hill, coming from the presidency of Bucknell University, maintained the high standards established by Dr. Anderson but eft in 1896 to achieve intemational prominencel in various positions of state, including the ambassadorship to Germany. After an interregnum of four years, ably filled in turn by Professors Samuel A. Lattimore and! Henry F. Burton as acting-presidents, Rush Rhees was called from a professor's chair at The Newton Theological Institution to assume the presidency, which position he has filled with distinction since IQOO. President Rhees proved to be that rare but happy combination of educational leader and. business executive. A man of far-seeing vision, his coming ushered in not only a new century but a new era for the University of Rochester. For the first fifty years of its existence the University had been operated as a college for men only. In 1900 through the efforts of a roup of public spirited women in Rochester, prominent among whom was the great suffrage leadrer, Susan B. Ant ony, the University was opened to women on the same terms and conditions as men. For the best interests of both men and women separate organizations were subsequently developed, and in 1917. the trustees created within the University a College for Men and a College for Women. ronliuwd an page 1-l' i-EJNTER, o moi , I6

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u sal L-ww 2 1 ers 3 l H1311 lp '?', -Q A Qilifxig' llgilldl .BMLEB5 Lx! wx'S.l-l. 'l luillll lllli l. H-1 P rg:,:1E,7- arf: , ,Q- l l lllllll lllllllll filly ,..V.A. .. .fa 1, .Lay l1 lf f ffp!','y,w' bfi! -4, rw ' V5 ' lull! L., Q. ww we uw' H 'E History of the U nivcrsity-fcorztifzuedj l 1 TWO DECADES OF EXPANSION-RUSH RHEES N, Another policy of President Rhees was of more general and far-reaching significance. He N brought to the old college a more modern conception of the purpose of education. Though em- phasizing just as strongly as his predecessors the value ofa. thorough cultural training as the ground-work for higher education, he felt that an institution owes an obligation to its community and to its timeg that it should be equipped to serve in a manner more broadly in keeping with the advancing demands of society. l Gifts from Andrew Carnegie and other friends in r9o9 permitted the establishment of an approved F course in mechanical engineering, the new building for which was opened in l9l 1 . ln addition to a y practical and adequate engineering schedule, this course incorporates within its four years slightly 1 more than a year of liberal arts work. A similar course was developed in chemical engineering, and a rather exceptional department, made possible by a generous bequest from the estate of Lewis P. y Ross, was established in vital economics. R Other specialized courses in optometry and applied optics were introduced in r9a6, within the X department of physics. Two years later the wa ' was opened for markedly facilitating the worlc in ' these courses, when Rochester's two interested industries, the Eastman Kodak Company and the Bausch 84 Lomb Optical Company, agreed to cooperate with the University in financing the project, 3 to be known as the Institute of Alpplied Optics, and in making available certain services by , members of their scientific staffs. he University had also extended the scope of its college ' in 1916 hy the establishment of a Division of University Extension, which has been giving Q afternoon and evening courses of full college grade to an increasing number of men and women, N otherwise unable to avail themselves of such opportunities. In 197.1 this service was further extended by the institution of a Summer Session, which also offers many college courses during the first half of the customary vacation period. The second of the University schools was that of Music, established in 1918, when Mr. George u Eastluan acquired the small Institute of Musical Art, which had been conducted as a private enter- l prise across the street from the college. In the following year he insured its material expansion by contributing a large sum for a new site and building, more strategically located, and for a arge music 1 hall and motion picture theatre to be built as an adjunct to it. l-le consented to give his name to these , new enter rises, which accordingly became known as the Eastman School of Music and Eastman 1 Theatre oflthe University of Rochester. l 1 This music school, o ned in rgzx, is probably unique among the educational institutions of the world. Its theatre, withea seating capacity of approximately 3,4oo, is unquestionably the largest R to be owned by a university. It has recently been eased for motion pictures but is still reserved for weekly concerts during the musical season and for other periodic purposes, The school has attracted to its staff, from the musical centers of Europe as well as America, some of the world's greatest N musicians and teachers, while the registration includes students from all parts of the country. , The next, and even greater, expansion movement was inaugurated in 1910, when Mr. Eastman and l the General Education Board o New York cooperated in establishing within the University a new l school of medicine and dentistry of the highest order. The General Education Board was influenced 1 in selecting Rochester for this ambitiousundertaking by its high regard for the administration and l for the standards maintained by the Uriiversitv from its be inning, Mrs. Gertrude Strong Achilles W and Mrs. Helen Strong Carter also contfibuted 8S1,ooo,ooo fir a teaching hospital as a memorial to i their father and mother.-A 60-acre tr' t of land in the outskirts of the city, between Elmwood Avenue and Crittenden Boulevard, wa selected for the site of the medical school lant, and the buildings were erected in time for the opening of the school in September, 1913. The large, main 3 building houses both the school and hospitalg and the city cooperated by erecting a new municipal 1 hospital, adjoining the Strong Memorial Hospital and staffed and served by it. These two hospitals l provide total clinical facilities of 455 beds. T e initial gifts have since been supplemented until the total resources of the school now exceed Sr5,ooo,ooo. l l rmfimad an pay an 1 or 193141 l , .,,, .,,, 18