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 134 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO It is clear, from quotations already made from President Harper's Convocation statements, that he expected some features of the plan to undergo change. He knew that it was unique. Some features of it were new. He believed in it profoundly. It had sprung out of his own experience. He had already proved the value of many of the methods proposed, in the work of his summer schools, in his own lecture-room, in his public addresses. He believed they would work successfully in the organization of a university. At the same tune he clearly recognized that he was making a great experiment. The educational methods he believed in, the measures he proposed, were to be tried out under new conditions and on a scale not before attempted. And he would have been the last man to say that these methods and measures would, under the changed conditions, suffer no modi- fication. It goes without saying that President Harper's educational plan was not in all respects new. A university was to be organized, and it must necessarily resemble in many respects other universities. The most that can be said of the educational plan is that it possessed some novel features, while resembling in many particulars the plans on which other universities are conducted. The differences, however, were marked and important, as will appear from the presentation of the plan. Official Bulletin No. i began as follows: The work of the University shall be arranged under three general divisions, viz., The University Proper, The University Extension, and The University Publication Work. The University proper was to include Academies, Colleges, Affiliated Colleges, and Schools. The Colleges were to include the College of Liberal Arts, the College of Science, the College of Litera- ture, the College of Practical Arts. The Schools were to include the Graduate School, the Divinity School, the Law School, the Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Pedagogy, the School of Fine Arts, the School of Music. The University Extension Division was to include the following : Regular courses of lectures in and about Chicago.