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Alma Mater
Today we gladly sing the praise Of her who owns us as her sons; Our loyal voices let us raise And bless her with our benisons. Of all fair mothers, fairest she, Most wise of all that wisest be, Most true of all the true say we, Is our dear Alma Mater.
Her mighty learning we would tell Tho’ life is something more than lore, She could not love her sons so well Lov’d she not truth and honor more, We praise her breadth of charity, Her faith that truth shall make men free. That right shall live eternally, We praise our Alma Mater.
The City White hath fled the earth, But where the azure waters lie, A nobler city hath its birth, The City Gray that ne’er shall die. For decades and for centuries. Her battlemented tow’rs shall rise Beneath the hope-filled western skies, 'Tis our dear Alma Mater.
— Edwin H. Lewis, ’94.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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Alma Mater 2
Athletics 36
Christian Union 18
Churches 21
Fraternities 33
Houses 34
Historical Sketch of University 6
I. C. Time Table 122-123
Important Memoranda 28
Libraries 31
Miscellaneous Information 29
Organizations 48
Pointers for New Students 30
Publications 46
Scholarships 32
Songs 40
University Calendar 124
Yells 43
Y. M. C. A. 9
Y. W. C. L. 14
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
President Harry Pratt Judson 5
Martin H. Bickham 8
Miss Helen Johnston 13
Map of Campus 44-45
Track Team 35
View of Campus 27
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GREETING TO NEW STUDENTS
New students in the University are cordially welcomed to our fellowship. The life in the quadrangles has many features of interest unlike any other, and with each recurring quarter and year we are glad to receive into the enjoyment of that life a new body of young men and women. The years one spends in the University, whether in the colleges or in the professional schools, should be years without a shadow. In the active industry of class and laboratory, in recreation and social relations, there is much to stimulate an intelligent mind and to satisfy the natural craving for healthy pleasure. In sharing these benefits one should remember that something is due from him in return. Each one owes to the University and to his associates loyal support and generous giving of one’s best. “Each for all and all for each” is a motto which University students may well take to heart. The new students who come to the University this year in that spirit, as may be confidently expected of all, will find here their best expectations realized, and will, in turn make themselves thoroughly a part of the best life of the University of Chicago.
HARRY PRATT JUDSON, President.
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HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
The first University of Chicago closed its work in 1886. Within a few months thereafter Mr. John D. Rockefeller took into consideration the founding of a new institution of learning in that city. In the fall of 1888 he conferred with Professor William R. Harper in regard to it, and finally entered into communication on the subject with Rev. F. T. Gates, Secretary of the American Baptist Education Society. In December, 1888, Mr. Gates brought the matter before the Board of the Society, which approved the effort to establish a well-equipped institution in Chicago, and instructed the Secretary to use every means in his power to originate and encourage such a movement. Being also encouraged by Mr. Rockefeller, Mr. Gates henceforth gave himself, with untiring devotion, to the work of founding the University of Chicago.
At the annual meeting of the Education Society, held in Boston in May, 1889, the Society formally resolved “to take immediate steps toward the founding of a well-equipped college in the City of Chicago.” To make it possible to carry out this purpose, Mr. Rockefeller at once made a subscription of $600,000 toward an endowment fund, conditioned on the pledging of $400,000 before June 1, 1890.
The annual meeting of the Education Society in June, 1890, was held in Chicago, and the Board of the Society adopted articles of incorporation and a charter for the new Institution. On September 10 of the same year the University was incorporated.
The incorporators named in the charter were John D. Rockefeller, E. Nelson Blake, Marshall Field, Fred T. Gates, Francis E. Hinckley, and Thomas W. Goodspeed. The name of the corporation in law is “THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO.” In recognition of the peculiar relation of Mr. Rockefeller to the institution, the Board of Trustees has enacted that on the official publications of the University the title shall read: “The University of Chicago, founded by John D. Rockefeller.”
At the first meeting of the Board after its incorporation in September, 1890, Pro6