Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1917-06-16
DE PAUL DESERVES FINANCIAL
SUPPORT.

Very Rev. F. X. McCabe, the pop
ular and eloquent president of De
Paul University. is doing much for
Chicago and has done much. The
great institution of learning of which
he is the head deserves the financial
aid of the wealthy and influential
people Of Chicago who have the good
Of the city at heart.
II will be nineteen years next June
since the charter was issued for st.
Vincent's College, on the North Side
of Chicago. Ten years ago the charter
was changed from st. Vincents Col
lege to that Of De Paul University.
At that time the College Of Engineer.
ing was added to the College of Arts
and Sciences. Six years ago last
September there were between two
and three hundred students enrolled.
Since that time the Colleges of Elec.
trical, Civil, Mechanical and Chem.
ical Engineering have been de.
veloped. The Colleges of Music, Ed.
ucation and Commerce have been or.
ganized and developed. The Illinois
College of Law and the Illinois Law
School have been affiliated as the law
department of De Paul University.
Last year De Paul University pur.
chased these two schools, and they
are at present the property of De
Paul University and the permanent
law department thereof. These law
colleges, day and night, have their
present quarters, together with the
Colleges Of Commerce and Education,
in the Tower Building, corner of Mad.
ison and Michigan boulevard. A mem.
Der OF the faculty, speaking of the
great work of De Paul, said:
To-day De Paul University has out.
grown it's accommodations and stands
In need of further buildings. At pres.
ent there are 1850 students, includ.
boys and girls. We feel we have a
right to appeal to the pride of Chi.
cago business men, and in particular
to Chicago Catholics. The priests of
the Congregation of the Mission (the
Vincentan Fathers) have endowed
education in Chicago to the extent
OF sl,000,000 in the property, build.
ings and equipment OF De Paul Uni
versity. They moreover maintain
fifteen professors for the work of
education, which means that De Paul
University is permanently endowed
by the priests of the Congregation
OF the Mission to the extent of $780,
900. They feel that they have con
tributed and are constantly contrib
uting TO the building up OF a splen
did type of citizenship through DE
Paul University. What does Chicago
say? What do its wealthy citizens
think Of it? Thus far they have done
nothing, because they were not asked
They were not asked because in bust
ness the man asks, Are the goods
delivered?' We answer, Yes, they
are" But we need more space, more
buildings. These, therefore, are oul
plans for a greater De Paul:
We want to make of the present
Lyceum Building, which is being useC
for the Girls Academy and the Col
lege OF Music, Science Building fol
laboratories OF chemistry, physics
biology, which are already existing
but crowded because OF lack OF space
and We want TO make Of the presen
College Theater a gymnasium W.
want 10 put up a technical building
for electrical laboratories, shops
forge rooms, etc, for all engineering
courses We want 10 put up a Girls
Academy and Woman's Building, II
which will be a Conservatory o
Music, a College OF Arts and Archi
lecture, and academic and collegiate
departments for girls and women.
"All this, we believe, can be dom
for 100000"
'V1a rich man NJ ChicapO SholIlI