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Joseph Cummings
Chicago: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth

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Title
Joseph Cummings
Description
Caption: "Joseph Cummings: President of Northwestern University from 1881 until his death in 1890". From text: "Before Dr. Joseph Cummings was chosen as president on June 21, 1881, the University had passed through five years of severe financial retrenchment and painful anxieties. ... The financial aspect of the affairs of the University began greatly to improve about this period, and the new administration of Dr. Cummings was marked as a 'transition from a period of solicitude to one of confidence.'... Dr. Cummings was a large man physically, tall and broad shouldered, and was called, like another great man of the time, 'the Grand Old Man.'.. He seemed indeed to inspire a kind of hero worship among those around him, and it thus becomes difficult to get an estimate of his administration, as every one who has written upon the subject seems completely preoccupied and spell bound by his attractive and impressive personality."
Date
1912  
Type
Photograph  
File Name
chicagoitshistor02curr_0417c.jp2
Source Page
http://www.archive.org/stream/chicagoitshistor02curr#page/344/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Text
http://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:Serial/chicagoitshistor
Subject
  • College presidents  
  • Universities & colleges  
Coverage-Spatial
Evanston (Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal
1910-1919  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
Rights
No Copyright - United States
Rights Description
Images in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book Title
Chicago: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth  
Author of the Book
Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844  
Collection Title
Picture Chicago
Collection
Picture Chicago
TitleJoseph Cummings
DescriptionCaption: "Joseph Cummings: President of Northwestern University from 1881 until his death in 1890". From text: "Before Dr. Joseph Cummings was chosen as president on June 21, 1881, the University had passed through five years of severe financial retrenchment and painful anxieties. ... The financial aspect of the affairs of the University began greatly to improve about this period, and the new administration of Dr. Cummings was marked as a 'transition from a period of solicitude to one of confidence.'... Dr. Cummings was a large man physically, tall and broad shouldered, and was called, like another great man of the time, 'the Grand Old Man.'.. He seemed indeed to inspire a kind of hero worship among those around him, and it thus becomes difficult to get an estimate of his administration, as every one who has written upon the subject seems completely preoccupied and spell bound by his attractive and impressive personality."
Date1912  
TypePhotograph  
File Namechicagoitshistor02curr_0417c.jp2
Source Pagehttp://www.archive.org/stream/chicagoitshistor02curr#page/344/mode/2up
Link to the Full-Texthttp://hdl.handle.net/10111/UIUCOCA:Serial/chicagoitshistor
Subject
  • College presidents  
  • Universities & colleges  
Coverage-SpatialEvanston (Ill.)  
Coverage-Temporal1910-1919  
Publisher
  • University of Illinois at Chicago  
  • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign  
RightsNo Copyright - United States
Rights DescriptionImages in this collection were digitized through the University of Illinois Library's participation in the Open Content Alliance and may be used freely. Attribution to the University of Illinois is appreciated. High-resolution images can be downloaded from the Internet Archive at www.archive.org. For further information, contact dcc@library.uiuc.edu.
Book TitleChicago: its history and its builders, a century of marvelous growth  
Author of the BookCurrey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), b. 1844  
Collection TitlePicture Chicago
CollectionPicture Chicago

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