Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — Rockefeller Raps University. [ARTICLE]

Rockefeller Raps University.

The faculty and students of the University of Chicago have been much stirred up by the reported criticism made by John D. Rockefeller while he was in Chicago to attend court as a witness. In reply to a question as to what he thought of the university’s work, the oil kiug is reported as saying: “The only regret I have concerning the university is that there are not as many men as successful as I hoped there would he after their schooling there. But I am advised by some of my friends that the future may show better results than the present. If the future will show that it was a wise undertaking, 1 shall be satisfied." In reply to these remarks, the members of the faculty are disposed to question the interpretation which Mr. Rockefeller -makes of the word success. If he means the ability to make money, they admit that not so many of the graduates have been successful as might (>e desired. But . they—maintain--that xu aliing -iuo!u\v . doesnot necessarily mean success. The impression prevails among the student body that the founder and benefactor of the great institution has been displeased by numerous radical doctrines preached by certain members of the faculty, it being recalled that frequently monopolies like the Standard Oil Company have been assailed with impunity in the class rooms.