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William Rainey Harper College is a public community college in Palatine, Illinois.It was established by referendum in 1965 and opened in September 1967. It is named for William Rainey Harper, a pioneer in the junior college movement in the United States and the first president of the University of Chicago.
Harper died on January 10, 1906, of cancer at age 49. He and his wife are interred at Rockefeller Memorial Chapel on campus at the University of Chicago. [11] William Rainey Harper College, a community college located in Palatine, Illinois, honors him. He is also the namesake of Harper High School and Harper Avenue in Chicago.
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Knudsen was born in 1938 and spent part of his upbringing in Brooklyn, New York; Michigan, and Chicago, Illinois.His father was a Lutheran minister.During high school, his family moved to the west side of Chicago in the Austin neighborhood where he later became the sole recipient in the city of a full scholarship to The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Harper was born on April 9, 1882, in the Morgan Park neighborhood of Chicago, the eldest son of William Rainey Harper and Ella Paul Harper. [3] His early years were shaped by the founding of the university that would later house him as lecturer. His father became the University of Chicago's first President in 1891.
The University of Chicago Clinics and Clinical Departments, 1927–1952: A Brief Outline of the Origins, the Formative Years, and the Present State of Medicine at the University of Chicago (1952). Vermeulen, Cornelius W. For the Greatest Good to the Largest Number: A History of the Medical Center, the University of Chicago, 1927–1977 (1977).
Opened in 1911 by the Chicago Public Schools district and Chicago Board of Education, The school was named in honor of William Rainey Harper (1856–1906), a legendary educator who served as president of both the University of Chicago and Bradley University and who was a champion of modernizing the facilities and standardizing the academic curriculum of the Chicago Public Schools.