Armour Institute of Technology - Cycle Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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X X % x+ OJC MR. F. U. SMITH In the resignation of Mr. Frederick Urling Smith as Comptroller of the Armour Institute of Technology, there comes to mind many evidences of the growth and development of our city, especially in educational lines within the last thirty years. Mr. Smith was at the right hand of Mr. Philip D. Armour when he was devising means and ways for helping the youth of the middle west by creating the Armour Institute. Mr. Smith met Mr. George V. Childs who had in- fluenced Mr. Drexel of Philadelphia. Mr. Smith’s former home, to establish an institution like the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn and the Cooper Institute of New York City. He heard these men discuss the matter of education with Mr. Armour, and he became closely allied with the new institution. For twenty-five years Mr. Smith has appeared upon the platform at Commencement time with his annual report as Comptroller. He has been a model of courtesy, gentility, wisdom and loyalty in the presence of thousands of students. The Institute itself would feel bereaved if it were not for the fact that he goes to his rest or pleasure as he will, at the close of the current year, and he goes in perfect health of body and mind to enjoy with his good wife many recollections of his labors on the Executive Council of the Institute, and especially the influence he has had and the participation which has been his in the new plans for the Armour Institute of Technology, when its walls shall echo with the tread of the thousands of students and teachers who shall throng its new and larger home at Windsor Park. Dr. F. W. Gunsaulus. Sixteen x

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G. S. ALLISON L. C. MONIN F. W. GUNSAULUS F. U. SMITH H. M. RAYMOND Fifteen

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x. X X i ALTHOUGH Armour Institute has been in existence only a short time it lias a very remarkable and interesting history. W hen Mr. Joseph Armour died he left a bequest of one hundred thousand dollars for the purpose of building a Mission in Chicago for church, school, and educational purposes. To this his brother, Philip Dan forth Armour, added a large sum to complete and outfit the building. The building was opened in 1886. Kver ready to help those who wished to help themselves, Mr. Armour built at various times, several large fiat buildings in the neighborhood of the Mission, the revenue from which served to make it as far as possible self-sus- taining. To the religious work, a free dispensary and library were added, the latter in charge of Mrs. Julia A. Beveridge. Mrs. Beveridge, believing that the usefulness of the Mission might be increased by taking up manual training, organized classes in wood-carving, clay-modeling, tile-making, and drawing for boys, and classes in domestic arts for girls. The success of her endeavors so pleased Mr. Armour that he de- cided to take up the educational work on a still larger scale than the size of the Mission would permit. Accompanied by Dr. Gunsaulus and Mr. John C. Black, Mr. Armour visited eastern institutions and, on his return to Chicago, decided to organize a school similar to Pratt or Drexel Institute. X A board of Trustees was organized, consisting of the following: Mr. Philip D. Armour, Mr. J. Ogden Armour, Mr. William J. Campbell. Mr. Philip D. Armour, Jr., and Mr. John C. Black. A charter was obtained from the state government and in 1892 the present main building” was erected. The first classes were organized in 1893. Dr. Gunsaulus, President, was assisted by a small, very efficient faculty, of which Prof. L. C. Monin. Mr. John E. Snow, and Mr. Edward D. Agle are still associated with the Institute. At the time of its foundation the Institute comprised the Armour Scientific Academy and the Technical College, as at present, and also the Departments of Domestic Arts, Commerce, Music, and Kindergarten Normal Training. The courses included in the Technical College were: Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Chemistry. Architecture, and Library Science. Between 1896 and 1901, the courses in Domestic Arts, Commerce and Music were drop- Seventeen 1R xo XX XX—XX XX XKHZXX XX