CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF CHILPERIC
CHICANE CHILTERN HILLS
CHICHELEY, HENRY CHILTERN HUNDREDS
CHICHEN-ITZA CHILWA
CHICHESTER OF BELFAST, ARTHUR CHICHESTER CHIMAERA
CHICHESTER CHIMAY
CHICKAMAUGA CREEK CHIME
CHICKASAWS CHIMERE
CHICKASHA CHIMESYAN
CHICKEN-POX CHIMKENT
CHICLANA CHIMNEY
CHICOPEE CHIMNEYPIECE
CHICORY CHIMPANZEE
CHIDAMBARAM CHINA (country)
CHIEF CHINA (porcelain)
CHIEMSEE CHINANDEGA
CHIENG MAI CHI-NAN FU
CHIERI CHINCHA ISLANDS
CHIETI CHINCHEW
CHI-FU CHINCHILLA
CHIGI-ALBANI CHINDE
CHIGWELL CHINDWIN
CHIH-LI CHINDWIN, UPPER and LOWER
CHIHUAHUA (state of Mexico) CHINESE PAVILLON
CHIHUAHUA (city of Mexico) CHINGFORD
CHILAS CHINGLEPUT
CHILBLAINS CHIN HILLS
CHILD, SIR FRANCIS CHINKIANG
CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES CHINO-JAPANESE WAR
CHILD, SIR JOHN CHINON
CHILD, SIR JOSIAH CHINOOK
CHILD, LYDIA MARIA CHINSURA
CHILD CHINTZ
CHILDEBERT CHIOGGIA
CHILDERIC CHIOS
CHILDERS, HUGH CULLING EARDLEY CHIPPENDALE, THOMAS
CHILDERS, ROBERT CAESAR CHIPPENHAM
CHILDREN, LAW RELATING TO CHIPPEWA
CHILDRENITE CHIPPING CAMPDEN
CHILDREN'S COURTS CHIPPING NORTON
CHILDREN'S GAMES CHIQUITOS
CHILDS, GEORGE WILLIAM CHIROMANCY
CHILE CHIRON
CHILEAN CIVIL WAR CHIROPODIST
CHILE-PERUVIAN WAR CHIROPTERA
CHILIASM CHIRU
CHILLAN CHIRURGEON
CHILLIANWALLA CHISEL
CHILLICOTHE (city in Missouri, U.S.A.) CHISLEHURST
CHILLICOTHE (city in Ohio, U.S.A.) CHISWICK
CHILLINGWORTH, WILLIAM CHITA
CHILOE CHITALDRUG
CHILON CHITON
CHICAGO, UNIVERSITY OF, one of the great educational institutions of the
United States, established under Baptist auspices in the city of
Chicago, and opened in 1892.[1] Though the president and two-thirds of
the trustees are always 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, William
R. Harper, determined and characterized the remarkable growth of the
university's first decade of activity. The grounds include about 140
acres. Of these about 60 acres--given in part by Marshall Field and laid
out by Frederick Law Olmsted--border the Midway Plaisance, connecting
Washington and Jackson parks. On these grounds the main part of the
university stands. The buildings are mostly of grey limestone, in Gothic
style, and grouped in quadrangles. The Mitchell tower is a shortened
reproduction of Magdalen tower, Oxford, and the University Commons,
Hutchinson Hall, is a duplicate of Christ Church hall, Oxford.
Dormitories accommodate about a fifth of the students. The quadrangles
include clubs, dining halls, dormitories, gymnasiums, assembly halls,
recitation halls, laboratories and libraries. In the first college year,
1892-1893, there were 698 students; in that of 1907-1908 there were
5038,[2] of whom 2186 were women. There are faculties of arts,
literature, science, divinity,[3] medicine (organized in 1901), law
(1902), education, and commerce and administration. The astronomical
department, the Yerkes Observatory, is located on William's Bay, Lake
Geneva, Wisconsin, about 65 m. from Chicago. It has the largest
refracting telescope in the world (clear aperture 40 in., focal length
about 61 ft.). The Chicago Institute, founded and endowed by Mrs Anita
McCormick Blaine as an independent normal school, became a part of the
university in 1901. The school of education, as a whole, brings under
university influence hundreds of children from kindergarten age upwards
to young manhood and womanhood, apart from the university classes
proper. Chicago was the second university of the country to give its
pedagogical department such scope in the union of theory and practice.
The nucleus of the library (450,000 volumes in 1908) was purchased in
Berlin soon after the university's organization, in one great collection
of 175,000 volumes. Scholarly research has been fostered in every
possible way, and the university press has been active in the
publication of various departmental series and the following
periodicals:--_Biblical World_, _American Journal of Theology, American
Journal of Semitic Languages and Literatures, American Journal of
Sociology, Journal of Political Economy, Modern Philology, Classical
Philology, Classical Journal, Journal of Geology, Astrophysical Journal,
Botanical Gazette, Elementary School Teacher and School Review._ The
courses in the College of Commerce and Administration link the
university closely with practical life. In extension work the university
has been active from the beginning, instruction being given not only by
lectures but by correspondence (a novel and unique feature among
American 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 quarter" is not as in
other American schools a supplement to the teaching year, but an
integral part; and it attracts the teachers of the middle western states
and of the south. In the work of the first two years, known together as
the Junior College, men and women are in the main given separate
instruction; but in the Senior College years unrestricted co-education
prevails. Students are mainly controlled by self-government in small
groups ("the house system"). Relations with "affiliated" (private)
colleges and academies and "co-operating" (public) high-schools also
present interesting features.
The value of the property of the university in 1908 was about
$25,578,000. Up to the 30th of June 1908 it had received from gifts
actually paid $29,651,849, of which $22,712,631 were given by John D.
Rockefeller.[4] The value of buildings in 1908 was $4,508,202, of
grounds $4,406,191, and of productive funds $14,186,235. Upon the death
of President Harper, Harry Pratt Judson (b. 1849), then head professor
of political science and dean of the faculties of arts, became acting
president, and on the 20th of January 1907 he was elected president.
See the _Decennial Publications_ of the University (since 1903),
especially vol. i. for details of history and administration.