Quadranglers. Records 1905-1971
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University of Chicago.
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Most of the records in the collection pertain to the $400,000 raised by the American Baptist Education Society in 1889-1890 in order to obtain a 600,000 grant from John D. Rockefeller for the creation of an endowment for the University of Chicago. The first volume in the inventory, Record of Pledges for the University of Chicago, contains an alphabetical numbered listing of subscribers, amounts pledged, and payments made through 1906. The subscription forms and letters (1:4-13) are numbered to c...
Quadranglers
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The Quadranglers club was founded in 1895 when University of Chicago student Theodosia Kane declined an invitation to join a sorority at Northwestern University and establish a chapter at the University of Chicago. Kane decided instead to form an independent club at the University and recruited fellow residents of Kelly Hall. The club’s first president was Edna Stanton, who later married University of Chicago physics professor and Nobel Prize winner A.A. Michelson. In 1925 the club established a...
