Page:A History of the University of Chicago by Thomas Wakefield Goodspeed.djvu/586

A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Smith, Willard A., service of, as trustee, 468. Snell, Henrietta, subscription by, 185, 228, 274. Sociology, American Journal of, estab- lishment of, 320. See also University Press. Sophomore class: first organization of, 257; name not officially recognized, 247. South Side Academy, merger of, with School of Education, 326-27. Stagg, Alonzo A.: appointment of, as Director of Physical Culture and Athletics, 378; appreciation of, by students and alumni, 381; gift by, 346; "The Old Man," sobriquet applied to, 381. "Stagg Field," 336; concrete wall around, 338, 429; grandstand in, 338, 429-32. See also "Marshall Field." Standard, the appeals made through columns of, for subscriptions of funds, 75-79; reports of financial campaign in, 80. Standard Club, assistance of, in early campaign for funds, 87. Stieglitz, Julius, appointment of, as Director of Laboratories, 368. Strong, Augustus H.: appreciation by, of W. R. Harper, 105; approval by, of W. R. Harper's plan of organization of new University, 168; leader of Baptists favoring university in New York, 2 ff. ; plans of, for founding university in New York City, 34 ff . Student enrolment: Divinity School, first year, 264; examinations held for, 193; first quarter, 248; first year, 189-95; Abbott, Frank Frost, assigned to registration of, in 1891, 191; geo- graphical origin of, for first year, 190; Graduate School, first year, 264; growth of, 321, 471; in Law School, 334; in Rush Medical College, 333; Morgan Park Academy, at opening, 248; trebled in less than six years, 297; women students, increase of, 313. See also University of Chicago. Student publications, 252-53. See also Arena; Chicago Alumni Magazine; Chicago Literary Monthly; Daily Ma- roon; Green Cap; Monthly Maroon; University News; University of Chicago Magazine; University of Chicago Weekly. Students' Express Co., 257. Students' Fund Society, organization of, 264. Subscription blank, first form used, by College Committee, 70 f. See also Funds, campaigns for. Swedish Theological Seminary, 363. See also Divinity School. Swift, Harold H., appointment of, as member of Board of Trustees, 462, 469. See also Trustees, Board of. Tennis: organization of, at University, 258; record of, at University, 380. Theology, American Journal of, estab- lishment of, 320, 362, 364. See also University Press. Track, record of, at University, 380. Traditions, University, establishment of, 266. Trustees, Board of: alumni, represented on Board, 462; announcement to, of completion of first $1,000,000 sub- scription, 185; appointments to faculty recommended to, for approval, 200; biological laboratory, action by Board concerning, 302 ; Committee on Build- ings and Grounds: duties of, 422; personnel of first, 218; subdivided, 226; conservatism of, after crisis of 1893, 278; Convocations, action by, concerning, 262; deficit for first year provided for by members of, 179; edu- cational plan for University submitted to, by W. R. Harper, 133; efforts of, to secure grounds, buildings, and equipment, 183; enlargement of origi- nal site of University considered by, 169; faculties, attitude of Board toward, 444-45; final gift to Univer- sity by John D. Rockefeller, minute of Board concerning, 293; first annual meeting of, 219; first Board, personnel of, 95; first meeting of, 115; fre- quency of meetings of, before opening of University, 184; Gates, F. T., state- ment by, at first meeting of, 474 ff.; gifts, aggregate of, contributed by members of, 275; honorary degrees, action concerning, by, 402-3; jour- nals, attitude of Board toward pub- lication of, 319; journals, authorization by, of publication through University Press, 266; membership of first, 480; Ogden Graduate School of Science, agreement by, to organize and main- tain, 175; organization, plan of, sub- mitted to, 190; personnel of, at end of first quarter-century, 500; Rockefeller,