The University Record (Volume 7 ) (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE PRESIDENT'S CONVOCATION STATEMENT1 CONVOCATION ORATOR The speaker today, Professor MacClintock, is one of those whom we are accustomed to call, in the University, our "aborigines." In other words he belonged to the original faculty of the University and joined in the opening exercises of the new institution on the first day of October, 1892. We thank him for the service with which he has favored us today, as indeed we thank him for the long years of faithful service to scholarship and to the University to which we have referred. RETROSPECT Within those years he has seen some changes in the development of the University. On the occasion of that opening meeting the new institution had four buildings, if we count Cobb Hall and the adjacent residence halls as forming four separate buildings. We have now the spacious Quadrangles and the very gracious lines of architecture which we see around us. The new University had the land bounded by Fifty-seventh and Fifty-ninth Streets, Ellis Avenue, and University Avenue, amounting to about twenty-four acres. It has now in its Quadrangles on both sides of the Midway nearly ninetyeight acres. In that year which opened on the first of October, 1892, the University enrolled 742 resident students; 302 of these were graduates, 440 were undergraduates. In the year which closed June 30,1921, the enrolment was 11,479 resident students, of whom 3,404 were graduates and 8,075 undergraduates. At the end of that first year 1892-93 the University gave one degree of Doctor of Philosophy. During the year 1920-21 it gave seventy-six degrees of Doctor of Philosophy. There was no Summer Quarter in the summer of 1893, its place being taken by a somewhat larger function, which at that time aroused the interest of Chicago and many parts of the...