Founding of UChicago (from a Harvard point of view)

[truth123]

<p>The Harvard Crimson did quite a few articles on the founding of the University of Chicago back in the day. </p>

<p>A sample are below (mostly from 1891 and 1892.) Some interesting history for you future UChicagoans…!</p>

<p>[No</a> Headline | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1891/1/3/no-headline-the-sunday-evening-theatre/]No”>No Headline | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson | The New University of Chicago.](<a href=“The New University of Chicago. | News | The Harvard Crimson”>The New University of Chicago. | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[No</a> Headline | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1892/11/25/no-headline-the-university-of-chicago/]No”>No Headline | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[The</a> New University of Chicago. | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1891/3/10/the-new-university-of-chicago-professor/]The”>The New University of Chicago. | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson | Innovations at the Chicago University.](<a href=“Innovations at the Chicago University. | News | The Harvard Crimson”>Innovations at the Chicago University. | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson | Fact and Rumor.](<a href=“Fact and Rumor. | News | The Harvard Crimson”>Fact and Rumor. | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[Fact</a> and Rumor. | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1892/6/13/fact-and-rumor-oxford-university-has/]Fact”>Fact and Rumor. | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[Fact</a> and Rumor. | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1892/12/22/fact-and-rumor-a-hospital-for/]Fact”>Fact and Rumor. | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[Fact</a> and Rumor. | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1892/11/26/fact-and-rumor-the-regular-boston/]Fact”>Fact and Rumor. | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[No</a> Headline | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1892/6/3/no-headline-the-membership-of-the/]No”>No Headline | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[Chicago</a> University Building. | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1892/12/17/chicago-university-building-below-is-printed/]Chicago”>Chicago University Building. | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson | No Headline](<a href=“No Headline | News | The Harvard Crimson”>No Headline | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson | No Headline](<a href=“No Headline | News | The Harvard Crimson”>No Headline | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[The</a> Harvard Crimson | No Headline](<a href=“No Headline | News | The Harvard Crimson”>No Headline | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[Progressive</a> Colleges Established in Nation In Last Sixty Years | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1956/11/23/progressive-colleges-established-in-nation-in/]Progressive”>Progressive Colleges Established in Nation In Last Sixty Years | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

<p>[President</a> Harper of Chicago Dead | News | The Harvard Crimson](<a href=“http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1906/1/11/president-harper-of-chicago-dead-pwilliam/]President”>President Harper of Chicago Dead | News | The Harvard Crimson)</p>

[Rny2]

<p>These are hilarious, thanks for the post! I especially love this one, </p>

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The whole scheme breathes that nervous, restless haste which is one of the most deplorable features of American life; and when our universities come to forget that “school” means leisure, and that high-thinking cannot be hurried, one of the last safeguards against the national vice of over-pressure will be lost

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<p>Fun coming to die since 1892 xD.</p>

[zakuropanda]

<p>Thank you for finding these! Lol at Kent being the most expensive building… Seems like the chem department knew how to get the best stuff from the very beginning :P</p>

[dunbar]

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Among the professional schools which Chicago hopes to establish are…engineering

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<p>Hmm… ;)</p>

[OxalisWombo]

<p>Extremely interesting. I’d forgotten that the quarter system was originally meant to allow us to get our degrees in three years. Jesus, I can’t even imagine…</p>

[truth123]

<p>And one from the NY Times from 1890:</p>

<p>THE OFFER TO PROF. HARPER.; YALE WILL NOT LOSE HIS SERVICES FOR THE PRESENT, AT LEAST.</p>

<p>[ DISPLAYING ABSTRACT ]</p>

<p>NEW HAVEN, Conn., Sept. 21. – Prof. William R. Harper arrived home from Chicago late last night. When asked whether he had decided to accept the Presidency of the new Chicago University he said:</p>

<p>Full article here:
[THE</a> OFFER TO PROF. HARPER. - YALE WILL NOT LOSE HIS SERVICES FOR THE PRESENT, AT LEAST. - View Article - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0915F83B5F10738DDDAB0A94D1405B8085F0D3]THE”>http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=FB0915F83B5F10738DDDAB0A94D1405B8085F0D3)</p>

[idad]

<p>I have always been partial to this 1903 quote from William James:

Chicago University has during the past six months given birth to the fruit of its ten years of gestation under John Dewey. The result is wonderful-a real school, and real Thought. Important thought, too! Did you ever hear of such a city or such a University? Here [at Harvard] we have thought but no school. At Yale a school but no thought. Chicago has both."

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