Word: fullgrown
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only real universities in the U.S. then were tiny Johns Hopkins and Clark; Harvard was still a college without university research. The University of Chicago sprang fullgrown from Harper's head: the day it opened it had 594 students, a graduate school, Gothic buildings, a faculty of 120 eminent scholars, for which Harper had shamelessly raided eight colleges of their presidents and Clark of most of its professors. To get his men, Harper doubled professors' salaries, paying the unheard-of rate of $7,000 a year. John D.'s first gift of $1,600,000 grew...