CHICAGO UNIVERSITY (officially styled THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO). A leading Ameri can university, situated in Chicago, Ill. The university was established at the instance of prominent Baptists throughout the country, and through gifts made chiefly by Mr. John 1). Rockefeller, to replace the former University of Chk-ago, a Baptist institution opened in 1857, hut which had been obliged, through lack of funds, to close its doors in 188(1. in recognition of the funds given by Baptists to start.the new university, it was provided in the charter that while no religious tests should ever be exaeted from the university professors or students, yet at all times two-thirds of the trustees, and also the president of the university. should be mem bers of regular Baptist churches.
As provided in its plan of organization, the university includes five divisions: First, schools, colleges, and academies; second. the university affiliations; third• university extension; fourth, the university libraries, laboratories, and muse ums; fifth, the university press. The first divi sion includes the graduate schools, of which the divinity school, the graduate school of arts and literature. and the Ogden graduate school of science and the law school have already been or ganized, while school.: of medicine, teehnology, fine arts. and music are it to be established. Of the schools established, the Ogden School of Science was founded under the will of William It. Ogden, his executors allotting to Chieago per cent. of the moneys lie devised to charities. The divinity was established under an agreement of the university made ill 18111 with the Baptist Union of Chicago, by Which its seminary became the divinity school of the university. The colleges of the university are either integral parts of it or are affiliated. The former inelude the colleges of art, literature, seience. commerce, and administration, and the university (teal-hers') college. The academies of the university are either an organic part of it, as in the ease of the University Academy at Morgan Park, or are affiliated with it. The purpose of the university affiliations is to raise the standard of primary, secondary, and collegiate training, and to secure the of economy in the interaction of the different factors of education. To accomplish this, the university maintains an intimate relationship with certain preparatory schools and colleges. In general this affiliation gives the university a varying amount of control over the educa tional activity of the college or school, and the university on its part grants official rec ognition, by means of degrees or certificates, to all work done under this indirect form of supervision. In 1903 the affiliated colleges
were: Des .\loines College, Iowa: Kalamazoo College, Michigan; John It. Stetson Univer sity, Florida ; Butler College. Indiana ; and the Rush Medical College, Chicago. At the same time the affiliated academies included: Morgan Park Academy (the University Academy), at Moran Park, Ill.; Frances Shinier Academy. Mount Carroll, Ill.: Bradley Polytechnic Insti tute, Peoria. Ill.: South Side Academy, Chicago; Harvard School, Chicago: Kellwood Institute, Chicago: Wayland Academy, Beaver Dam, Wis.; Rugby School. Kenilworth. Ill.; Chicago Manual Training School; Culver Military Academy, Cul ver, Ind.; Elgin Academy, Elgin, Ill.; Dearborn Seminary, Chicago: and the University School for Girls. Chicago. In the department of university extension the attempt is made to bring the uni Nersity to those who cannot come to it. Lec ture and study courses arc given outside of Chicago, and work done in them is recog nized and credited by the university. More important are the correspondence courses, which are definitely arranged in majors and minors, ac cording to the regular university schedule, and on which credits are allowed toward the university degrees. The university libraries number at present about 304,000 volumes. The main eolleetion, purchased in Berlin. con tains 175,000 volumes. Other collections in elude: The Theological Seminary Library, 40,000 volumes; library of the former University of Chicago, 10.000; Edward Olsen Library, 5000; departmental libraries, 74,000. The laboratories and museums in•hule: The Kent Chemical Lab oratory, Ryerson Physical Laboratory, the Yerkes Astronomical Observatory, the Walker Museum, TIaskel Oriental Museum (includ ing biblical, comparative religion, Syrian, and Egyptian collections), and the Hull biolog ical laboratories (including the zoillogieal, physi ological. anatomical, and botanical laboratories). The university press publishes both separate books and pamphlets and departmental jour nals. The departmental journals are fol lows: The Journal of Political Economy; the American Journal of Sociology; ..Anteriran Jour nal of Language and Literature; Biblical Thorid: The .1 st roph ysieul Journal; Journal of Geology; School Perictr ; Botanical Gazette; American •ournal of Theology; The Elementary Teacher and ('nurse of Study; The Manual Training Ilaga.:ine; and The University Record. Under the head of separate publications, the university press issul-s many important pam phlets and hanks, usually written by professors or post-graduate students in the course of special ized university work.