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See also:CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF , one of the See also:great educational institutions of the See also:United States, established under Baptist auspices in the See also:city of Chicago, and opened in 1892.2 Though the See also:president and two-thirds of the trustees are always See also:Baptists, the university is non-sectarian except as regards its divinity school. An immense ambition and the extraordinary organizing ability shown by its first president, See also: The astronomical See also:department, the See also:Yerkes See also:Observatory, is located on William's See also:Bay, See also:Lake See also:Geneva, See also:Wisconsin, about 65 m. from Chicago. It has the largest refracting See also:telescope in the See also:world (clear See also:aperture 40 in., See also:focal length about 61 ft.). The Chicago See also:Institute, founded and endowed by Mrs Anita McCormick See also:Blaine as an See also:independent normal school, became a part of the university in 1901. The school of education, as a whole, brings under university See also:influence hundreds of See also:children from See also:kindergarten See also:age upwards to See also:young manhood and womanhood, apart from the university classes proper. Chicago was the second university of the See also:country to give its pedagogical department such See also:scope in the See also:union of theory and practice. The See also:nucleus of the library (450,000 volumes in 19o8) was See also:purchased in See also:Berlin soon after the university's organization, in one great collection of 175,000 volumes. Scholarly See also:research has been fostered in every possible way, and the university See also:press has been active in the publication of various departmental See also:series and the following See also:periodicals.—Biblical World, See also:American See also:Journal of See also:Theology, American Journal of Semitic See also:Languages and Literatures, American Journal of See also:Sociology, Journal of See also:Political See also:Economy, See also:Modern See also:Philology, Classical Philology, Classical Journal, Journal of See also:Geology, Astrophysical Journal, Botanical See also:Gazette, Elementary School Teacher and School See also:Review. The courses in the College of Commerce and 2 A small Baptist college of the same name—established in 1855 on See also:land given by S. A. Douglas—went out of existence in 1886. a If, however, the See also:total is reckoned on the basis of nine months of See also:residence the figure for 1907-1708 would-be 3202. The Divinity School has a See also:graduate department and three under graduate departments, doing See also:work in See also:English, in Danish and See also:Norwegian, and in See also:Swedish. Allied with the Divinity School of the University is the " Disciples' Divinity See also:House " (1894), a theological school of the Disciples of Christ.
Administration See also:link the university closely with See also:practical See also:life. In See also:extension work the university has been active from the beginning, instruction being given not only by lectures but by See also:correspondence (a novel and unique feature among American See also:universities); in the decade 1892-1902, 1715 persons were prepared by the latter method for matriculation in the university (11.6 % of the total number of matriculants in the decade). Extension lectures were given in twenty-two states. At Chicago the work of the university is continuous throughout the year: the " summer See also:quarter " is not as in other American See also:schools a supplement to the teaching year, but an integral part; and it attracts the teachers of the See also:middle western states and of the See also:south. In the work of the first two years, known together as the Junior College, men and women are in the main given See also:separate instruction; but in the See also:Senior College years unrestricted co-education prevails. Students are mainly controlled by self-See also:government in small See also:groups (" the house See also:system "). Relations with " affiliated " (private) colleges and See also:academies and " co-operating " (public) high-schools also See also:present interesting features.
The value of the See also:property of the university in 1908 was about $25,578,000. Up to the 3oth of See also:June 1908 it had received from gifts actually paid $29,651,849, of which $22,712,631 were given by See also: Upon the See also:death of President Harper, Harry See also:Pratt See also:Judson (b. 1849), then See also:head See also:professor of political science and See also:dean of the faculties of arts, became acting president, and on the loth of See also:January 1907 he was elected president. See the Decennial Publications of the University (since 1903), especially vol. i. for details of See also:history and administration. Additional information and CommentsThere are no comments yet for this article.
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