My interest in the University of Chicago has been enhanced by the fact that while it has comprehensively considered the other features of a collegiate course, it has given so much attention to research.
DR.

WILLIAM R.HARPER The mention of this promising young institution always brings to my mind the figure of Dr.William R.Harper, whose enthusiasm for its work was so great that no vision of its future seemed too large.
My first meeting with Dr.Harper was at Vassar College, where one of my daughters was a student.

He used to come, as the guest of Dr.James M.Taylor, the president, to lecture on Sundays; and as I frequently spent week-ends there, I saw and talked much with the young professor, then of Yale, and caught in some degree the contagion of his enthusiasm.
When the university had been founded, and he had taken the presidency, our great ambition was to secure the best instructors and to organize the new institution, unhampered by traditions, according to the most modern ideals.

He raised millions of dollars among the people of Chicago and the Middle West, and won the personal interest of their leading citizens.

Here lay his great strength, for he secured not only their money but their loyal support and strong personal interest--the best kind of help and cooeperation.