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NEWS OF T H E COLLEGE A N D GREEK-
LETTER WORLD

COLLEGIATE

The following notice came to us from the University of Chicago
News Letter. I t is worthy of attention, for perhaps no other American
university has witnessed within its own halls a similar growth.

The twenty-fifth anniversary of the University of Chicago, it has just been
announced by the University Board of Trustees, will be celebrated in the year
1916, and plans are already being considered for the appropriate recognition of
so important an event in the educational history of Chicago and the country.

The charter of the University of Chicago was signed on June 18, 1890, and
the University was incorporated on September 10 of the same year.

William Rainey Harper, Professor of Semitics in Yale University, was called
to the presidency of the new institution in September, 1890, and entered on the
duties of his office July 1, 1891. The University of Chicago opened its doors
to students on October 1, 1892. It then had a faculty of about one hundred,
which at present numbers about four hundred. During the first year 742 "s t u
dents were enrolled, and during the last year (1914-15) 7,781 different students
were enrolled.

The grounds belonging to the University in 1892 comprised about twenty-
five acres; the University now owns, including the grounds of Yerkes Observa-
tory at Williams Bay, Wisconsin, about one hundred and sixty-five acres
reserved for educational purposes. The four buildings in use at the opening of
the University have increased to forty; the total of gifts from $925,813.08,
paid in at the opening, to $37,556,243.48 on June 30, 1915.

More than 7,000 degrees have been conferred by the University, and over
50,000 students have matriculated during its history.

The five tests of education which were recently proposed by Dr.
Nicholas Murray Butler and which have been the subject of much
comment and discussion are as follows:

1. Correctness and precision in the use of the mother tongue.
2. Those refined and gentle manners which are the expression
of fixed habits of thought and of action.
3. The power and habit of reflection.
4. The power of intellectual growth.
5. Efficiency, the power to do.

In the consideration of Dr. Butler's first test, the following an-
nouncement in a recent issue of the Boston Transcript is of interest.
Would that all American colleges and universities might follow in
the foot-steps of the oldest!

Harvard has advanced one step further in its campaign to make college men
write better English. By the arrangement announced today, the university will
require all students who continue to show deficiencies in the use of their mother