Washington University Saint Louis - Hatchet Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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Photo by J. C. Strauss.

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TO WILLIAM CHAUVENET, L. L. D. Chancellor 1862-1869 THE CULTIVATED GENTLEMAN THE ACCOMPLISHED LINGUIST THE DISTINGUISHED MAN OF SCIENCE

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The Good the World’s Fair Will do Washington University A S ONE of the graduates I have witnessed with pride and pleasure every successive rise in the fortunes of my alma mater since my student days; every step in her subsequent progress to her present high rank among the best endowed and best equipped of American universities; and without the slightest misgivings 1 now put on record my belief that a glorious renaissanc e for St. Louis and the entire west will spring from this great commemoration of the Louisiana Purchase, and that Washington University, so promi¬ nently identified with this historical event, will be one of the chief beneficiaries of the new life infused throughout the Mis¬ sissippi Valley. Influenced by such views, President Brookings of the Uni¬ versity more than two years ago assented to an arrangement of great mutual advantage to it and to the Exposition—an arrange¬ ment by which the latter obtained a short lease of the new University site and buildings at a great saving of time and money, while a substantial amount of World’s Fair money, that would otherwise have necessarily been absorbed in building temporary structures, aided and hastened the erection of the l niversity’s permanent buildings. The University’s munificent new endowment, and her mag¬ nificent new buildings and grounds so often pictured as a part of the Exposition plant are now known everywhere, and will be permanently photographed on the memories of many millions of World’s Fair visitors from all parts of the Union and from all parts of the world. What better advertisement could be planned for an educational institution newly equipped for a higher and larger field of usefulness ?