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 324 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO business, charitable and philanthropic service, and public service. After 1902 the College ranked as a separate professional school. For several years the curriculum was made out by selecting appro- priate courses from those offered in various departments. But it was found that this effort made to restrict expenses made the development of the College impossible. In 1908 President Judson, in reporting to the Trustees, said : In order to make this College what it ought to be and make it fairly com- parable with work already organized at Harvard and other institutions, I estimate that there should be added to our budget eighteen thousand dollars. This will provide for the most important lacks in the present organization and enable us to do the work in a way worthy of the University. The opportunity for caring for the College properly came in 1910 when Mr. Rockefeller made his final gift. Professor L. C. Marshall had been made Dean of the College in 1909. It soon began to assume new importance and take on new proportions. Appropriations grew with its growing work. Its field came to cover both undergraduate and graduate work. The number of students increased, and everything promised, as the first quarter- century ended, a great and useful future for the School. About the time the College of Commerce and Administration was established, in 1898, Mrs. Emmons Elaine promised the University five thousand dollars a year for five years to provide for the extension of University work to the public-school teachers of Chicago. This was to be done through classes conducted in the center of the city. The work was organized as the University of Chicago College for Teachers. The University Extension Class work in the city very soon became a part of it, and the name was changed, becoming in 1900 University College. It now offered not only to teachers, but to all persons who desired a college education and could not go to the University quadrangles for it, opportunity to secure it in afternoon, evening, and Saturday classes. It was a real college. The University instructors taught in it the same courses they taught in the University. The courses were "the same in amount and quality of work as other University courses, and they all are fully credited toward University degrees. Conditions concerning admission, advanced standing, and degrees