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 THE FIRST YEAR 247 Professor Chamberlin started out with his class in Geology yesterday after- noon for field work in the country. The first of the University ruling bodies to meet was the Council which held its first meeting in the Faculty Room in Cobb Hall at 12:00 M. on Monday, September 26, five days before the Univer- sity opened. The next was the Faculty of Arts, Literature, and Science, which met on the opening day. At the close of this meet- ing the President expressed the hope that the time would come when the Junior (then called the Academic) College work would be transferred to some other place, and "the higher work be given all our strength on this campus." This was from the beginning a favorite idea with President Harper. It was with this hope in view that in the educational plan he had divided the four-year college course, not into four classes, but into two colleges, now known as the Junior and Senior Colleges. For the first quarter- century the hope of the President was not realized. The Junior College received as much attention as the Senior, and the two flourished together. The students on their part always showed a strong tendency to revert to the time-honored nomenclature and called themselves Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors, and had their class organizations and class officers. There were in the faculty of the first year one hundred and twenty members. Of these thirteen were head professors, one of them, Mr. Michelson, spending the year abroad. There were twenty-one professors, one of them, J. R. Boise, of the Divinity School, emeritus, and three non-resident, these latter being expected to deliver one or more courses of lectures. C. R. Van Hise, later President of the University of Wisconsin, was a non-resident professor of geology. Of associate professors there were sixteen and of assistant professors twenty-seven. There were fifteen instructors, nine tutors, four assistants, seven readers, and nine docents. Omitting the professor emeritus, there were one hundred and twenty active members of the staff. In addition there were seven University Extension lecturers, engaged to give one or more courses of lectures. There were sixty-one " fellows", some of whom gave more or less instruc- tion. Nearly a score of these first-year "fellows" later received