University of Chicago

 The University of Chicago was founded in 1890 by the yankee Baptist Education Society and oil top executive John D. Rockefeller, who later represented the University of Chicago as ?the best investment I ever created.? The land for the new university, in the recently annexed suburb of Hyde Park, was donated by Marshall Field, owner of the Chicago department store that bears his name. William Rainey Harper, the first president, imagined a university that would mix associate degree American-style undergrad bailiwick faculty with a German-style graduate analysis university. The University of Chicago quickly fulfilled Harper's dream, becoming a national leader in educational activity and analysis. Frederick Rudolph, professor of history at Williams faculty, wrote in his 1962 study, The American faculty and University: A History, ?No episode was more vital in shaping the outlook and expectations of yankee educational activity throughout those years than the innovation of the University of Chicago, one of those events in American history that brought into focus the spirit of associate degree age.? One of Harper's curricular innovations was to run categories all year spherical, and to allow students to graduate at no matter time of year they completed their studies. Appropriately enough, the first category was command...