University of Chicago. The Stochastics. Records 1939-1972

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...

Du Shane, Graham Phillips, 1910-

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Burrows, William, 1908-1978

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William Burrows was born on March 6, 1908 in New Haven, Connecticut to William Burrows and Winifred Elizabeth Johnson Burrows. He received a B.A. from Purdue University (1928), a M.S. from the University of Illinois (1930), and a Ph.D from the University of Chicago (1932). From 1928 to 1930 Burrows was an Assistant in Bacteriology at the University of Illinois. He was a Leopold Schepp Fellow at the University of Chicago from 1930 to 1932. Burrows joined the University of...

Park, Thomas, 1908-

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The literary and social faculty club the Stochastics was founded at the University of Chicago in 1939 by William Burrows, R.W. Harrison, Graham Du Shane, H.H. Strandskov, and Thomas Park. All were young faculty members who sought an alternative to the more established faculty clubs, "The Innominates" and the "X-Club." The club was designed as a venue for " prandial pleasures, hilarity, extraneous gossip, and a total absence of scholarship." From the guide to the University of Chicago...

Harrison, Roland Wendell

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