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 154 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO The University Press also maintained its position as one of the Divisions of the University. It is true that it had a struggle for existence. It was a novel feature of university organization in this country, and for a number of years it was regarded by some of the trustees as an expensive luxury. But more and more, as time went on, it proved its value and increased in usefulness and power, accom- plishing all that President Harper had anticipated and growing more fully into the life of the institution. The fact that the leading universities of the country later adopted the plan more or less fully was an added demonstration of its wisdom. The graduate and professional schools, some of them fully organized, others in process of establishment, still others in con- templation, remained at the end of the first quarter-century as originally planned. The School of Medicine, partly organized, awaited the appearance of some benefactor of his kind to enable President Judson to complete the organization of a great institu- tion of medical instruction and research. The schools of technology, fine arts, and music remained to be established to complete the splendid structure conceived in the educational plan. The institution remained coeducational. The partial separa- tion, in the classes, of Junior-college men and Junior-college women, made no change in this basic principle. Persons of both sexes con- tinued to be admitted on equal terms. The splendid building which the liberality of La Verne W. Noyes enabled the University to build for the women students in the closing year of the first quarter-century only emphasized the purpose of the authorities to give to women advantages in every way equal to those afforded to men. The Directors of Divisions and the Deans of Schools and Col- leges remained as originally planned. This part of the adminis- trative plan was ideally good and seemed assured of permanent continuance. That great innovation, the division of the Colleges into the Junior College and the Senior College, instead of into four classes, Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, and Senior, also remained without change. It was President Harper's view that the first two years' work of the ordinary college course should be done before the stu-