514 REPOKT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



and every one has prevailed in the Chicago University since its begin- 

 ning as a fundamental proposition, as is shown by the conduct of the 

 president and of the trustees and in the actual practice of the presi- 

 dent and the })r()fessors. 



2. That this principle shall never, neither now nor in the future, be 

 put in (|uestion. 



3. That it is desirable, in order to be alwa3^s clear upon tliis subject, 

 that the university, as such, should not take part in public affairs and 

 that public expressions by the professors relative to public matters 

 shall be regarded as personal. 



ORGANIZATION OF THE UNIVERSITY. 



It remains to sketch the organization of the university. This is not 

 yet fully completed, for it has, as yet, only a theological faculty 

 (divinit}^ school), with an annex of an English theological seminary, 

 a Scandinavian theological seminary, a philosophical faculty (graduate 

 school of arts and literature), and a faculty of natural sciences (Ogden 

 Graduate School of Science). There will later be organized, as soon as 

 means allow, a law faculty, a medical facult}^," a faculty of engineering, 

 a technological facult}", a pedagogical faculty^ — one for the fine arts 

 and one for music. 



The universit}^ includes live divisions: (1) The schools, colleges, and 

 academies; (2) the university extension; (3) the university libraries, 

 laboratories, and museums; (4) the university press; (5) the univer- 

 sit}' affiliations. 



The first division includes the faculties which have just been men- 

 tioned (schools), the colleges for art, literature, natural science, com- 

 merce, and administration and university college. Each of these 

 colleges is again divided, as is usual, into a junior and a senior college. 

 Finall}^, there is the academy in Morgan Park, a secondary school. 



The second division, the university extension, directs the work of 

 students who can not attend the daily exercises of the university.^ It 

 conducts lectures at places more or less distant from the university 

 (lecture study department), study by correspondence (even in foreign 

 countries), examinations for outsiders, and the library; that is to say, 

 the utilization of the library for students not at the university itself. 



« Recently the whole of Rush Medical College of Chicago has been transferred to 

 the university, and part of the medical lectures will be held there. This, then, now 

 constitutes the medical faculty. 1903. 



''This faculty is now constituted by the recent transfer to the university of the 

 Chicago Pedagogical Institute. 1903. 



''The English call this extension of university instruction the People's University, 

 for its benefits are open to all. It rightly is regarded as absurd if anyone considers 

 that he has ended his education at any definite time, for it can only be ended by 

 death. Alexander von Humboldt was not ashamed to attend lectures even when 

 an old man. I must refrain from giving here a special description of the Chicago 

 University Extension. 



