Student Life Chapin Hall Files 1968-1975
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Putnam, Karl F. (Karl Fredric), 1879-1960
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Karl Fredric Putnam was born March 28, 1879, to a prominent family in Mt. Carmel, Illinois–banker and attorney Samuel R. Putnam and Agatha Weinbach Putnam. Karl attended the Northwestern University Academy (preparatory school), graduating on June 13, 1899. He entered Northwestern University in the fall of 1899, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree from the College of Liberal Arts in June 1903. While at Northwestern, Putnam was a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon social frate...
Women's Educational Aid Association
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The Women's Educational Aid Association (WEAA) was organized in 1871 as the Educational Association, founded by Evanston women to help promote the higher education of deserving students at the Evanston College for Ladies. The founders' objective, according to the Association's records, was “to investigate the various systems of aiding needy students,…to canvass the claims of applicants for aid and to recommend to the College such as shall seem worthy of help; to have a friendly over...
Chapin Hall (Evanston, Ill.)
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Chapin Hall was erected on University-owned property in 1901 with funds provided by Dr. O. K. Pearsons. It was named for his sister-in-law, Julia Chapin. Pearsons stipulated that the new dormitory at 726 University Place be put in the charge of the Women's Educational Association (WEAA) to house up to 60 financially disadvantaged women. The WEAA assumed the responsibility for running the dorm as a co-operative, but under the proviso that if it became unprofitable or unde...
