Where to travel, travel and route planner » chicago school of economics http://www.dankuna.com/blog Best travel, maps, GPS, weather, images, cheap hotels Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:15:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 University of Chicago, Chicago http://www.dankuna.com/blog/university-of-chicago-chicago.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=university-of-chicago-chicago http://www.dankuna.com/blog/university-of-chicago-chicago.html#comments Fri, 26 Dec 2008 11:49:16 +0000 Tom http://www.dankuna.com/blog/?p=1792 [...]]]> The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the of Chicago. Founded by the oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, the University has traditionally dated its establishment to July 1, 1891, when William Rainey Harper became President and the first member of the faculty.
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The University of Chicago held its first classes on October 1, 1892. The University of Chicago was one of the first to be conceived as a combination of the American liberal arts college and the German research university. Known for its rigorous devotion to academic scholarship and intellectual life, the University of Chicago is often jokingly referred to as the school “where fun comes to die.” Affiliated with 82 Nobel Prize laureates, the University of Chicago is widely regarded as one of the world’s . Historically, the university is noted for the unique undergraduate core curriculum pioneered by Robert Hutchins in the 1930s, and for influential academic movements such as the , the , and the Law and Economics movement in legal analysis. The University of Chicago was the site of the world’s first man-made self-sustaining nuclear reaction. It is also home to the Committee on Social Thought, an interdisciplinary graduate research program, and to the largest university press in the United States. guides.
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