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Up to 1898 1300,000 of this had been li(iuidatod and $200,000 more are 

 expected. In the .same year occurred the purchase of several hundred 

 thousand books and pamphlets comprising the librar}- of the C.'alvary 

 Antiquariat at Berlin. In 1892 S. A. Kent, of Chicago, gave $235,000 

 for a chemical laboratorj^, Mr. Rockefeller another endowment of 

 $1,000,000, and Mr. Field $100,000 for buildings, under the condition 

 that within three months an additional sum that should raise the total 

 to $1,000,000 should ])e secured for the same object from other parties. 

 This was done in Chicago itself; the sum was even exceeded, and man}' 

 complained that they had not been asked to contribute. S. B, Cobb had 

 given $150,000 especially for a lecture hall; G. C. Walker $130,000 for 

 a fireproof museum; M. A. Rj^erson $150,000 for a phj^sical laboratorj^ 

 (to which he added in 1894 $75,000 more) and $50,000 besides; Mrs. 

 N. S. Foster gave $60,000; Mrs. E. Kelly and Mrs. J. Beecher each 

 $50,000, and other ladies $18,000, all for dormitories for women; 

 Mrs. A. J. Snell $50,000 for a dormitory for A'oung men students, 

 and in addition to this there were 20 leading business men of the city 

 who together guaranteed $100,000 in case the required sum was not 

 forthcoming. 



In order to show the farsightedness that animated the men of the 

 university, I will mention that in June, 1892, when there had already 

 been a large staff of teachers appointed, though as yet there was not 

 a single student, and when everyone had his hands full with organiza- 

 tion and installations, $250 was granted for the American School of 

 Classical Studies at Athens. 



On October 1, 1892, the university was opened to students with a 

 ceremony exclusively of a religious character. Only the lecture hall 

 and three dormitories were read}'; for everything else rooms had to 

 be rented in the neighborhood. As a slight recognition of the indebt- 

 edness which was felt toward Mr. Rockefeller it was voted that the 

 words "Founded by John D. Rockefeller'' be added to all official 

 reports, publications, and correspondence of the university. In the 

 same year this founder gave still another sum of $1,000,000 as an 

 endowment for the compensation of instructors. On elanuary 1, 1893, 

 the university had a teaching corps of 172 persons, of whom there 

 were 73 professors (4 German) and 61 fellows for 594 students, nearly 

 one-fourth of them being women. In 1893-94 a fund amounting to 

 $1,000,000 was formed for the general equipment of the university, of 

 which Mr. Rockefeller contributed half, M. A. Ryerson, of Chicago, 

 $100,000, the remainder coming from various sources. In 1894 Mrs. 

 C. E. Haskell, of Chicago, established an oriental museum at a cost of 

 $100,000, adding $40,000 for lectures on comparative religion, and 

 Charles A. Yerkes, of Chicago, founded an observatory with $300,000. 

 In 1895 the total number of students was already more than 2,000. 

 From 1893 to 1896 Mr. Rockefeller had given for various purposes, 



