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THE DEVELOPING UNIVERSITY 467 President Judson in his Annual Report for 1911-12 said: A coat-of-arms for the University of Chicago was adopted by the Board of Trustees August 15, 1910: a seal was adopted January 30, 1912. A heraldic expert, Pierre de Chaignon la Rose, working under the direction of Mr. Charles A. Coolidge, proposed the charges of the shield and the first form of the coat- of-arms. Mr. Burke, of London, who made a further study of the design, suggested a rearrangement of the field. The resultant coat-of-arms is as follows: "Argent, a phoenix displayed gules, langued azure, in flame proper. On a chief gules, a book expanded proper, edged and bound or. On dexter page of book the words Crescat scientia inscribed, three lines in pesse sable. On sinister page the words Vita excolatur inscribed, three lines in pesse sable." The technical description here given is simplicity itself to those familiar with heraldic symbols and language. Those who are not would need to see the picture of the coat-of-arms in the colors indi- cated in the description. The coat-of-arms was in the form of a shield. At the bottom were fiery red and yellow flames, out of which the fabled phoenix was rising. All this was on a white ground. The upper quarter of the shield had a red ground on which was an open book on the two pages of which was the motto, on the first page, Crescat Scientia, and on the opposite, Vita Excolatur. One of the first things done by the Board of Trustees in 1890 was to appoint a committee to report on a suitable seal. Pending the adoption of a design, a temporary seal was made, in the center of which was the word "Seal," and around the border the name of the University. This temporary device served for twenty-one years before the permanent seal was devised. That had for its central feature the phoenix, and above it, as in the coat-of-arms, the open book and motto. Around the outer edge was this inscription: "Sigillum Universitatis Chicaginiensis A.D. MDCCCXC," and inside this inscription another, as follows: "A Johanne Davison Rockefeller Fundatae." The University owed the motto of the coat-of-arms and the seal to Professor Paul Shorey. Mr. Shorey was thinking one day of that phrase in Tennyson's In Memoriam: "Let knowledge grow from more to more," and it impressed him as expressing one pur- pose of a university. He thereupon put it into Latin Scientia