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 360 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO with regret that the University realized the necessity of the case and brought to an end the excellent work which had been done at Morgan Park. It will be possible, however, as a result, to concentrate resources upon the colleges and the graduate and professional schools where the attention of a University primarily falls. The Principal of the Academy, Franklin W. Johnson, was transferred to the Associate Deanship of the University High School. In his final report to the President on the work of the Academy he said : More than twelve hundred students have been enrolled. They have come from forty states and seven foreign countries Our graduates have entered twenty-six different colleges and universities and have maintained themselves with credit Ideals of worthy character and efficiency have been impressed upon hundreds of students in whose strong lives the work of the Academy will be perpetuated. In no way was the real quality of the school more clearly shown than during the last few months of its work Never was the work of the school performed more efficiently. Never were our various interests more successfully maintained. Never did our athletic teams win such splendid victories as during the weeks following the announce- ment that the school was to close The standards of work and disci- pline were not lowered in the slightest degree. Very different from the history of the Academy was that of the Divinity School. The first chapter of this work contains a sketch of the quarter-century of history of the Baptist Union Theological Seminary up to the time when it became the Divinity School of the University. The union of the two institutions brought the Divinity School in 1892 to the quadrangles of the University just then beginning to be developed by the erection of Cobb Hall and the dormitories south of it, two of which, Middle and South, became the homes of divinity students. Dr. George W. Northrup, who had long been president of the Theological Seminary, now insisted on giving up that position, and in accordance with Presi- dent Northrup's desire, Professor Eri B. Hulbert of the Department of Church History became the first Dean of the Divinity School. The President of the University was president of the School, as of all the Schools of the University. The School was fortunate in being in the closest possible way integrated with the life of the larger institution. Not only had the movement for that institution had