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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 institution had been greatly enlarged. Professor 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 dollars to his former subscription. In accordance with the terms of this second subscription, the Baptist Union Theological Seminary was removed from Morgan Park, to the University site, as the Divinity School of the University, an Academy of the University was established at Morgan Park, and $100,000 of the amount of the subscription was devoted to the erection 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 University twenty-one years ago, made the following striking comparisons: “The faculty 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 opening the first of October, 1892, was 742. The number enrolled during the year closing June 30, 1913, was 6,802. The number of those who have received degrees from the University since its opening is 7,050. The grounds belonging to the University 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 payable within a short time in the future amount to $7,495,000.”
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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
Statement of Purpose
The Young- Men’s Christian Association of the University of Chicago, in a spirit of brotherhood to all men, in faithful allegiance to Jesus Christ who has made known through His life and teaching the highest ideals for human life and character, and in reverent faith in God, seeks the realization of the ideals of Jesus in both individual and social life within the University and throughout the world.
Membership
The Association is open to all men of the University who express by signing the membership agreement, their agreement with the purpose of the Association and their personal desire and purpose to further its work. In accordance with this agreement each member is expected to give certain time and service in promoting Association activities in which he is interested, and to make an annual contribution to the Association treasury. In conformity with the requirements of the Young Men’s Christian Association of Chicago, to which this Association is a Department, no membership card can be issued until a minimum annual contribution of One Dollar ($1.00) has been made. Membership shall continue during the member’s connection with the University, provided the annual contribution is made each year and the relation is not annulled by the member or the Association.
Organization
To adapt its work more closely to the scheme of organization of the University and to the conditions of student life, the Association has adopted a Commission form of organization. This organization
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consists of Association Group Commissions, appointed to promote the work of the Association among definite groups of students, such as freshmen, etc., among the undergraduates, and Law, Medical, etc., among the graduates. A Student Executive Council composed of the Chairman of these several Commissions. An Administrative Council made up of representatives of the student body, faculty and alumni and friends of the Association. To maintain its position as an agent and not a competitor of the church, the Association vests the right to hold office in both the Administrative Council and the Student Executive Council in those members who are in good standing in some Evangelical Church.
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Position in the University.
This Christian Association is a voluntary organization of the men of the University of Chicago, designed to supplement by personal initiative and action the work of the University along the line of moral and religious education. The efficiency of the work is dependent upon the active interest and financial support of those University men and their friends who are in sympathy with it. The work of the Association is recognized and encouraged by the University, and is a constituent part of the Christian Union.
Relation to Student Organizations.
In purpose and aim the Association wishes to avoid competition with all organizations working along the line of general student activities. The field of its activity is definitely within the realms of moral and religious culture. It desires to co-operate in every possible way with those student organizations that aim to foster and promote moral and religious ideas among University men.
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Moral Culture.
The Association deprecates moral laxness of any kind and purposes to war upon all evils that encroach upon student life in such a way as to undermine high moral standards and to deteriorate character. All the forces of the Association will be set to solve the problems of cultivating within the student mind and consciousness a high sense of honor and a spirit of loyalty in thought and practice to the highest moral standards.
Religious Life.
The Association recognizes that the period of University life is for many men a time of readjustment in thinking about religious problems. It seeks to impress upon men the supreme importance of the religious life and the urgent need of its careful and constant cultivation. It encourages frank consideration of religious questions in personal, voluntary and curriculum Bible study, group meetings for conference and prayer and public lectures.
Church Co-Operation.
The Association considers itself an agent of the church, and seeks to emphasize the place and value of the church in personal and community life. Students are assisted in maintaining, or in entering upon, vital personal connection with the church of their choice.
Service.
The Association holds that religious life is strengthened by service for others. It seeks to develop a vital interest in modern social and missionary problems. Students are given opportunity to help in settlements, social centers, and missions, among our nearby neighbors, and to relate themselves in knowledge, in gifts and in person to the great missionary agencies at work among the peoples of other lands.
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