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fessor William Rainey Harper, of Yale
University, was elected President; and he
entered on the duties of his office July 1,
1891. Before Professor Harper accepted
the presidency, the scope of the institu-
tion had been greatly enlarged. Profes-
sor Harper felt that it should be in fact,
as well as in name, a university, and Mr.
Rockefeller, agreeing with this view, in
September, 1890, added one million dol-
lars to his former subscription. In ac-
cordance with the terms of this second
subscription, the Baptist Union Theologi-
cal Seminary was removed from Morgan
Park, to the University site, as the Divin-
ity School of the University, an Academy
of the University was established at Mor-
gan Park, and $100,000 of the amount of
the subscription was devoted to the erec-
tion of divinity dormitories on the
grounds of the University.

President Harry Pratt Judson, in his
address at the service on October 1, 1913,
commemorating the opening of the Uni-
versity twenty-one years ago, made the
following striking comparisons: “The fac-
ulty at that time numbered about one
hundred; at present it numbers about
four hundred. Since that date the number
of students who have matriculated, thus
having had courses at some time in the
University, is 49,941. The total number
of students enrolled during the year open-
ing the first of October, 1892, was 742.
The number enrolled during the year clos-
ing June 30, 1913, was 6,802. The num-
ber of those who have received degrees
from the University since its opening is
7,050. The grounds belonging to the Uni-
versity in 1892 comprised twenty-five
acres. The present campus, including the
Midway frontage on both sides, from
Cottage Grove Avenue to Dorchester
Avenue, is nearly one hundred acres.
The buildings in use on the grounds
twenty-one years ago included Cobb Hall
and the three dormitories adjoining the
building on the south. The University
has now about forty buildings. The total
of gifts paid in at the opening amounted
to $925,813.08. The total of gifts paid in
at this time amounts to $35,086,836.45. In
addition to that sums pledged and paya-
ble within a short time in the future
amount to $7,495,000.”

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