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 468 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO crescat. Casting about for some phrase that would express the University's ideal of service, as Mr. Robertson of the Department of English wrote in the University of Chicago Magazine for June, 1912, he was minded of the passage in the sixth book of the Aeneid, in which Vergil tells of seeing in the happy fields those who on earth enriched or adorned human life. [Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes.] And so he got his second verb and subject. In putting the two parts together he related them in English by "and so." Hence Dr. Shorey offered as a motto for the Uni- versity: Crescat scientia; vita excolatur "Let knowledge grow from more to more; And so be human life enriched." The motto was welcomed and adopted. This is the story of the way in which the University got its coat-of-arms and seal. As the years passed the personnel of the Board of Trustees and of the faculty inevitably changed. The faculty, indeed, increased rapidly in numbers, while the number of Trustees remained unchanged. The Board of Trustees was divided into three classes of seven members each, the term of one class expiring each year. In addition to the original twenty-one members, twenty-eight other men served as Trustees during the first twenty-five years. Among these, William H. Holden served six years; Rev. Leighton Williams, seven years; Hon. Franklin MacVeagh, twelve years; Isaac W. Maclay, five years; Frederick T. Gates, fourteen years; John D. Rockefeller, Jr., thirteen years; Hon. Frank O. Lowden, five years; J. Spencer Dickerson, four years, until in 1913 he became Secretary of the Board; F. J. Llewellyn, six years; Frederic A. Delano, one year; and T. W. Goodspeed, several brief terms. Nine Trustees died while in office Charles C. Bowen, of Detroit, William B. Brayton, Edward Goodman, David G. Hamilton, Presi- dent William R. Harper, George A. Pillsbury, of Minneapolis, Daniel L. Shorey, George C. Walker, the donor of Walker Museum, and Enos M. Barton. The following became Trustees in the course of the first quarter-century, and were still serving the University as Trustees at the end of that period: Willard A. Smith, 1894; Judge Jesse A. Baldwin, 1896; Howard G. Grey, 1899; Adolphus C. Bartlett, 1900; Harold F. McCormick, 1900; Hon. Francis W. Parker, 1901; President Harry Pratt Judson, 1907; Thomas E. Donnelley, 1909; Charles R. Holden, 1912;