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Faber, William F., 1880, 10

Faculty, of early 1900's, general discussion, 15; general discussion, 1920's, 23; Eastman School of Music structure, 1950's to early 1960's, 39 See also Names of individual faculty members

Faculty Club, River Campus, 22; founded, 1924, 23; rents cottage on campus, 23; receives $1,800 from sale of stock in Rochester Capital Corporation, 23; 1920's,24; River Campus, 26; Women's on Prince Street, 27; restored to Burton Hall, 33; in Men's Dining Center, 35

Faculty committees, number 10, ca. 1955, 36

Faculty homes, considered on River Campus, 1936, 26

Faculty retirement age, See Retirement age (Faculty)

Faculty-Student Policy Review Group, 38

Fairbank, Matthew E., 1930, 24

Fairbanks, Floyd C., 1901, 16; 17

Fairchild, Herman L., faculty career summarized, 9; serves as first registrar, 11; re-classifies Ward Collection, 11; chairs a meeting at which John Spargo speaks, 15; an early member of the Rochester A.A.U.P., 23; helps form local chapter of Sigma Xi, 1925, 24; attends Valentine inauguration, 25

Fairchild Award, 9

Falcon Society, 17; 24

Falk, David M., 39

"The Far Eastern Front," conference, 29

Farley, James E., 33

Farrand, Livingston, 25

Fassett, J. Sloat, 1875, career summarized, 8; runs for governor, 1891, 12; speaks at University's Semi-Centennial, 1900, 12

Fassett Club, 12

Faulkner, Barry, 18

Faunce, dilliam H. P., 11

Fauver, Edgar, 17

Fauver, Edwin, career summarized, 17; appointed, 1916, 15; fraternity conditions provoke wrath of, 24; jurisdiction over intercollegiate athletics, 24; conflict over "professionalism," 24; University Marshall at Valentine inauguration, 25; stadium named for, 38

Faxon, Nathaniel W., appointed director of School of Medicine and Dentistry, 20; career summarized, 20; quoted on building of Medical Center, 21; takes part in dedication of Medical Center, 21; School of Nursing under his jurisdiction, 21; leaves School of Medicine and Dentistry, 1935, 28

Fay, William W., 1855, 6

Fayerweather, Daniel B., 11

Federal aid, sought, 1854, 6

Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 27

Feld, Cora (Hochstein), 1935, 27

Fenn, Wallace O., appointed professor of physiology at School of Medicine and Dentistry, 20; career summarized, 20; gives talk, "The House that George Built," 20; member of National Academy of Sciences, 33; an original recipient of Distinguished Senior Professor honor, 36

Fennell, Frederick, ESM 1937, 28; 31; 39

Fenner, Burt L., x1891, 12

Fenninger, Leonard D., SMD 1943, 31

Fenno, Richard F., 36

Fermin, Adelin M. C., 18

Festival of American Music, begun, 1921, 28; held during World War II, 31; post World War II, 39; expanded at 40th anniversary of Eastman School of Music, 39

Fetler, David, ESM A.D.M. 1956, 39

Fewster, J. Donald, 1928, 24

Field, John, 1935, 29

Field Club, 16

Field days, popular in 1380's, 10

Field Secretary, 23

Fillmore, Mrs. Millard, 10

Finances, early needs of University, 6; grow worse during Civil War, 7; 1890's, 11; early 1900's, 15; late 1910's, 17; 1920's, 23; reasons for gaps in history of, 23; 1930's, 26; Medical Center, 1930's, 28; early 1940's, 29; during World War II, 30; late 1940's, 32; 1951, 32; Gilbert's assessment of, ca. 1949, 34; during de Kiewiet decade, 36 See also Fund raising

Fine Arts, offers Master's, 37; department replaces art and archaeology, 36

Fink, Richard J., 1936, 27

Finley, John H., 14

Finucane, Bernard E., 26; 35

Fire, at Granite Building, 1904, destroys University records, 15

Firsts, named chair at University, 3; book by an alumnus, 6; alumnus elected a University trustee, 6; University song, 7; alumnus son of an alumnus, 8; alumnus to obtain senior professorial status at the University, 9; alumnus elected a University trustee, 9; alumnus to become mayor of Rochester, 10; University teacher to have an earned Ph.D., 11; full time office worker at the University, 11; Asiatic student at the University, 12; graduating seniors (1892) to wear caps and gowns, 12; Negro to graduate from the University, 12; woman graduate of University, 13; alumni-elected trustee, 15; woman to teach at university, 15; yearbook dedicated to a professor, 15; engineering degrees given at University, 15; University alumna to receive a Ph.D., 16; graduate of Chinese nationality, 17; woman to receive a Ph.D. at University, 17; alumna to serve on Board of Trustees, 17; lesson taught at Eastman School of Music, 18; woman to receive M. D. at university, 21; first earned Ph.D. awarded by University, 21; woman to earn a University Ph.D. in chemistry, 23; Rhodes scholar from University, 27; Negro admitted to School of Medicine and Dentistry, 28; School of Medicine and Dentistry alumnus elected a University trustee, 28; woman to head a major University department, 29; woman trustee of University, 29; trustee to receive an honorary University degree, 30; University doctorate in education, 37; A.D.M. degree awarded, 39

Fish, Ezra J., 1853, 6

Fish, Frederick S., 1873, 8

Fisher, Carl E., 1931, 27

Fisher, Edgar J., 1906, 16

Fisher, Janet (Brown), School of Nursing 1932, 28

Fitch, Theodore F., 1922, 24

Fitz-Simons, Caro, 1927, See Spencer, Caro (Fitz-Simons), 1927

Flag rush, beginning, 16

Flexner, Abraham, medical education expert, 20; chooses Rochester for a new medical school, 20; approaches Eastman to help finance a medical school, 20; publicly outlines plans for a new medical school, 20; thoughts on Whipple's winning Nobel Prize, 20; quoted on Municipal Hospital as part of medical complex, 20; quoted on medical center, 21; attends dedication of medical center, 21; wishes "full-time teaching" practice kept, 21

Flexner, Simon, 25

Folsom, Benjamin, 1871, 8

Folsom, Marion B., 35

Football, 1870's, 8; 1880's, 10; 1890's, 12; 1900's, 16; 1910's, 17; 1920's, 24; 1930's, 27; during World War II, 29; 30; post World War II, 38

Forbes, Charles, 1864, 7

Forbes, George M., 1878, career summarized, 8; faculty career summarized, 9; requests that daughter be allowed to study at University, 13; an early member of the Rochester A.A.U.P., 23; Rush Rhees, Jr. dropped from his philosophy class, 24

Forbes, Helen F. (Allen), ESM master's degree 1933, 7

Forbes, James B., 1899, 7; 33

Forbes, James B., Jr., 1934, 7

Forbes, Janet (Phillips), 1940, 30; 31; 33

Forbes, John F., 1878, 8

Forbes, John V., 1939, 7

Forbes, Thomas R., 1933, 7; 27

Forbes, Thomas R., Jr. 1959, 7

Ford, George H., 36

Ford Foundation, 37

Foreign and Comparative Literature, 36

Foreign languages, combined into one department, 36; offers master's, 37

Foreign students, 1917, 17; late 1940's, 33; 1950's to early 1960's, 38

Foreman, Edward R., 1892, 12

Forensic Society, 38

Forensic Union, 6

Forsyth, Walter S., 1914, 16

Fortnightly Bulletin, 26; 33

Fosdick, Frank S., 1872, 8

Foth, Joseph H., 23

Founders' Court, 37

Fountain, Robert P., ESM 1941, 31

Four course plan, put into effect, 1961, 36

Fowler, Henry, 6

Fox, Charles J., 23

Fox, Francis E., 1943, 30

Fox, George H., 1867, 7

France, Robert R., 36

Frank, Joseph A., 32

Fraternities, Anderson sympathetic toward, 5; early, 6; sentiment toward, 6; 1870's, 8; 1880's, 10; 1890's, 12; 1900's, 16; 1910's, 17; 1920's, 24; on River Campus, 22; 1930's, 27; during World War II, 29; 30; post World War II, 38

Frawley, Margaret M., 1926, 24

Frederick Douglass Building, 35

"Freedom to Dissent" conference, 38

Freeman, Andrew L., 1851, 6; 8; 10

Freeman, Spencer H., 1875, 8

Freer, Marie, 1931, See Porter, Marie (Freer), 1931

French, Ethel L., 1920, 23; 24

French (R. T.) Company, 36

Freshman camp, 23

Freshman dean, 23

Freshman orientation, 17

Friederich, Sylvia, ESM 1959, 39

Friedlander, Leo, 18

Fresh Bible, 12; 16

Frost, Donald S., 1933, 27

Frugoni, Orazio, 39

Fry, C. Luther, 26

Fry, Marion W., 29; 30

Fulbright, Harry W., 32

"Full-time principle", 21

Fullagar, William A., 37

Fulton, Justin D., 1852, 6

Fund raising, to support removal plans, 1847, 2; for the University, 1850, 3; before University opens, 3; $100,000 pledged, 1864-1865, 7; 1867, 7; after Civil War, 8; 1870's, 8; 1879-1880, 10; 1880's, 10; under Hill, 11; early 1900's, 15; 1919, 17; for "Greater University," 1924, 22; through alumni, late 1940's, 33; Development Fund drive, 1950's, 35; alumni, de Kiewiet era, 36; 1960's, 37 See also State aid

Funston, G. Keith, 34

Futherer, Joseph, 17