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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:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William R. Harper, deter-See also:mined and characterized the remarkable growth of the university's first See also:decade of activity. The grounds include about 140 acres. Of these about 6o acres—given in See also:part by See also:Marshall See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
Field and laid out by See also:Frederick See also:Law Olmsted—border the Midway Plaisance, connecting See also:Washington and See also:Jackson parks. On these grounds the See also:main part of the university stands. The buildings are mostly of See also:grey See also:limestone, in See also:Gothic See also:style, and grouped in quadrangles. The See also:Mitchell See also:tower is a shortened See also:reproduction of Magdalen tower, See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford, and the University See also:Commons, See also:Hutchinson See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall, is a duplicate of See also:Christ See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church hall, Oxford. Dormitories accommodate about a fifth of the students. The quadrangles include clubs, dining halls, dormitories, gymnasiums, See also:assembly halls, recitation halls, laboratories and See also:libraries. In the first See also:college See also:year, 1892-1893, there were 698 students; in that of 1907-1908 there were 5038,3 of whom 2186 were See also:women. There are faculties of arts, literature, See also:science, divinity,' See also:medicine (organized in 1901), law (1902), See also:education, and See also:commerce and See also:administration. 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 (through Ital. scopo, aim, purpose, intent, from Gr. o'KOaos, mark to shoot at, aim, o ic07reiv, to see, whence the termination in telescope, microscope, &c.)
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:John D. See also:Rockefeller.. The value of buildings in 1908 was $4,508,202, of grounds $4,406,191, and of productive funds $14,186,235. 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.
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