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 484 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO salaries of the Professors and ordinary expenses of the Seminary or Divinity School, all of said expenses being a charge upon the funds of the Union. 6. The Treasurer of the University shall likewise be entitled to receive the incidental fees of the Seminary Students and the rentals arising from rooms in the Divinity Dormitory, unoccupied by Professors or Students of the Divinity School; provided that the same shall be credited and applied towards the incidental expenses of the Divinity School. 7. The first One Hundred Thousand Dollars received from Mr. Rocke- feller upon his pledge of One Million Dollars shall be set apart for the erection of the building, hereinbefore provided for by Article 2, to be used by said Divinity School; it being understood that any income which may accrue from the same before the date of payment of the contracts for the erection of said building, shall be applied to liquidate debts which the Seminary may have contracted before the final location upon the Campus of the University of the Union, and that of the remaining payments to be made by Mr. Rockefeller, the income of one-ninth (i) shall be applied for the purpose of said Divinity School. 8. That the President of the University shall be the President of the Divinity School and sustain the same relation to the Faculty thereof as to the other Faculties of the University; provided that nothing shall be required by this clause inconsistent with the Charter of the Union. 9. That hi the supervision and direction of matters pertaining to instruction in the Divinity School the Union shall act in accordance with the general regulations of the University. 10. That the Union will not hereafter confer degrees. 11. That the Union shall cease to conduct the department of Old Testa- ment and Semitic studies, but this Article shall not be understood as debarring the establishment by the Union in the Divinity School of a Chair of Biblical Theology of the Old and New Testaments. 12. That the Union shall cease to confer annual memberships and shall fix the fee of life memberships at not less than One Hundred Dollars ($100). 13. That the income of moneys contributed to the University for Theo- logical instruction shall be applied to the support and maintenance of the Divinity School. 14. That all the Students of the Divinity School shall have free tuition in all studies pertaining to the course of the Divinity School and free room rent so far as the Dormitory of the Divinity School will suffice, while engaged in such studies. 1 15. That the University will confer degrees upon graduates of the Divinity School in accordance with the regulations of the University. 16. That instruction in the Old Testament and Semitic department shall be provided by the University; that is the instructors of this department shall be members of the Faculty of the graduate School and shall receive their 1 This section was stricken out by mutual agreement in 1898.