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 1 88 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO In whatever manner they may be explained the facts are that, instead of the seventy instructors provided for, or supposed to be provided for (or, including the divinity professors, eighty), being appointed, the number of appointments on the faculty for the first year aggregated one hundred and twenty. It is true that a few of these appointees received no salary, but while the financial pro- vision for salaries amounted, at the outside, to less than one hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, the actual salaries paid aggre- gated two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. It hardly needs to be said that with the faculty so largely increased in numbers and with several entire departments added, needing books, apparatus, rented quarters, furniture, and supplies, expenditures of every kind were greatly increased. This in brief is the story of the last of the earliest steps in expansion. It wonderfully equipped the new institution for its opening year. It was a great step in expansion but a step into the dark.