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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 501157, member: 5833"]No reason to think they are fakes & <i>very</i> few women were admitted to medical school at that time, so think they may be good sellers indeed.</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4"><b>Valparaiso College, then Valparaiso University</b></font></p><p>Henry Baker Brown bought the American College of Medicine and Surgery from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University" rel="nofollow">Northwestern University</a>; he later changed the name to Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery. Students could save money by spending their first two medical college years in Valparaiso.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-timeline-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-timeline-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1905 the university formed an affiliation with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Dental_Infirmary" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Dental_Infirmary" rel="nofollow">Chicago College of Dental Surgery</a> to provide dental education for its students. For the next two decades, Valpo gained a national reputation as an economical institution of higher learning, earning its positive nickname <i>The Poor Man’s Harvard</i>. At the height of enrollment in 1907, it was the second-largest school in the nation, behind only Harvard University. In 1914, monthly literary magazine <i>The Torch</i> was founded; it became the university's weekly student newspaper in 1915.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-Torch-8" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-Torch-8" rel="nofollow">[8]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The university began intercollegiate athletic competition in 1916. Valpo's first game was a basketball game against the Chicago YMCA Training School, in which VU fielded players from intramural teams.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-timeline-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-timeline-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a></p><p><br /></p><p>In 1917, World War I and the death of President Brown took its toll, and the school was forced into bankruptcy.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-9" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-9" rel="nofollow">[9]</a> Valparaiso University sold the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Chicago" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Chicago" rel="nofollow">Loyola University Chicago</a>. In 1923, a fire destroyed the original 1860 Old College Building, and VU could not afford to clean the site.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-timeline-7" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-timeline-7" rel="nofollow">[7]</a> This was one of many financial problems Valparaiso faced in 1923, as President Horace M. Evans tried to settle a $375,000 debt. Evans appealed to the Rockefeller Foundation and other wealthy individuals before asking the Indiana state legislature to make VU public. The legislature refused, and Evans almost sold the university to the Invisible Hand of the Ku Klux Klan, but the deal was stopped due to "legal technicalities", likely cited to save face for both organizations.</p><p><br /></p><p>Valparaiso University was eventually bought by the Lutheran University Association, a conglomerate of National Lutheran Education Alliance and American Luther League. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-10" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-10" rel="nofollow">[10]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-11" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-11" rel="nofollow">[11]</a></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 501157, member: 5833"]No reason to think they are fakes & [I]very[/I] few women were admitted to medical school at that time, so think they may be good sellers indeed. [SIZE=4][B]Valparaiso College, then Valparaiso University[/B][/SIZE] Henry Baker Brown bought the American College of Medicine and Surgery from [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwestern_University']Northwestern University[/URL]; he later changed the name to Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery. Students could save money by spending their first two medical college years in Valparaiso.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-timeline-7'][7][/URL] In 1905 the university formed an affiliation with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago_Dental_Infirmary']Chicago College of Dental Surgery[/URL] to provide dental education for its students. For the next two decades, Valpo gained a national reputation as an economical institution of higher learning, earning its positive nickname [I]The Poor Man’s Harvard[/I]. At the height of enrollment in 1907, it was the second-largest school in the nation, behind only Harvard University. In 1914, monthly literary magazine [I]The Torch[/I] was founded; it became the university's weekly student newspaper in 1915.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-Torch-8'][8][/URL] The university began intercollegiate athletic competition in 1916. Valpo's first game was a basketball game against the Chicago YMCA Training School, in which VU fielded players from intramural teams.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-timeline-7'][7][/URL] In 1917, World War I and the death of President Brown took its toll, and the school was forced into bankruptcy.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-9'][9][/URL] Valparaiso University sold the Chicago College of Medicine and Surgery to [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loyola_University_Chicago']Loyola University Chicago[/URL]. In 1923, a fire destroyed the original 1860 Old College Building, and VU could not afford to clean the site.[URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-timeline-7'][7][/URL] This was one of many financial problems Valparaiso faced in 1923, as President Horace M. Evans tried to settle a $375,000 debt. Evans appealed to the Rockefeller Foundation and other wealthy individuals before asking the Indiana state legislature to make VU public. The legislature refused, and Evans almost sold the university to the Invisible Hand of the Ku Klux Klan, but the deal was stopped due to "legal technicalities", likely cited to save face for both organizations. Valparaiso University was eventually bought by the Lutheran University Association, a conglomerate of National Lutheran Education Alliance and American Luther League. [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-10'][10][/URL][URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University#cite_note-11'][11][/URL] [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University[/URL][/QUOTE]
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