Saints, skeletons, totems, vice presidents: Masks created by art students at Midway Studios come alive in 1991. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-03600)

We rock the body: At the 1998 Summer Breeze festival, a crowd of students waits in Hutchinson Courtyard for Moby and Sonic Youth to take the stage. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf7-05982-001)

The doctor is in, and the artist is at work: Virginio Ferrari (left) sculpts a bust of psychiatrist Karl Menninger (right) at Midway Studios in 1967. Ferrari was the University’s sculptor in residence and an assistant professor of art from 1966 to 1976. The bust was destined for the Menninger Foundation in Topeka, Kansas. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf1-06077)

Alumni outreach: Much like the Alumni Schools Committee today, the Undergraduate Extension Board, founded in 1927, involved alumni who recruited promising high school students from their home communities to attend the College. This map shows its reach across the United States. (UChicago Photographic Archive, apf3-01879)

The University of Chicago women’s varsity soccer team in action, circa early 1990s. Their 2017 successors reached the NCAA Division III Final Four in December. (© The Chicago Maroon)