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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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in YEAES OP DEPRESSION: THE ADMINISTRATION OP PEABODYj; 'WBt'' The Second Regent. The University's Continued Poverty. Want of Elasticity in Organization and Spirit. Slow Progress in Build* ings, Equipment, and Registration. The Hatch and Morrill Supplementary Acts. Change of Name, and in Constitution of Board. Dissatisfaction with Regent and Overthrow by Alumni. Development of Student Life. resignation was effective September 1, 1880, and till next March Dr. Selim H. Peabody, professor of mechanical engineering and physics, served as Regent pro tempore, when he was elected to the Regency. The new head was of long academic experience. After graduating at the University of Vermont, he had been superintendent of schools at Pond du Lac and Racine, Wisconsin, had long taught in Chicago, had been professor of physics at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, and had served as secretary to the Chicago Academy of Sciences. When in 1878 he had come as professor to the University, he had produced a considerable impression by the vigor with which he taught his classes and systematized the shop work. He resigned to accept the editorship of what became the International Encyclopaedia, and in New York compiled a book on American patriotism, but was almost at once brought back to Illinois. The significant fact about his career, however, was that by far the greater part of it had been spent in public school work. It was in 1859 that he went to his first Wisconsin post, and not till 1868 that he resigned DR. GREGORY'S 99
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