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2?= ?. 19-THE CYCLE - 20 OK x : . j I •e i x V n i i in the central west and in Chicago, means 'serviceableness in architecture as well as beauty and dignity. The buildings will constitute a piece of serious apparatus for the special work which any such institution must do at this time and in this region. DiO •+K Commodious as the buildings are and large as the location seems to be, the Armour Institute of Technology will limit its number of students to one thousand. The prospects at university foundations for the highest and most necessary research work in pure science are so large and secure that the Armour Institute of Technology will have only its responsibility in the central west for the training of engineers. The high schools of this region, especially the technical high schools, have their large responsibility in the preparation of students who expect in four years to receive our degree of Bachelor of Science in this or that kind of engineering. Our present method so expanded requires large room for apparatus and for safety, as well as the rigid adherence of a program of study and experiment under experts always serving the student to at all reach the ideal in view or to meet the situation in American engineer- ing. These problems are many and difficult. The world’s coal problem must be solved by what is most necessary in America—the use of our mighty wasted water power. The civil engineer must be ready to make Chicago, Duluth. Detroit, and perhaps other cities over into Altantic ports, and he must he trained to do his part in the future with those who worked so excellently in the past and bring the lakes and the gulf together by the river system which nature has partially provided. When the Armour Institute emerged from the enterprise of a coeduca- tional school and based its operations twenty years ago on the expectation of such a war which has come, it had no clearer vision than it has now of the necessities for engineering education of the highest grade in order that the problems of peace may be met and solved. It was a war of engineers when the battle was on, and American engineering greatly figured in winning the war. It is now a war of engineering against primitive and ignorant wastefulness of the forces of nature and the blundering of untrained men in politics which creates the necessity for such education as we assume to offer. One thousand young men fitted for leadership in mind and skill will be our constant and contributory effort in the direction of a better-working civilization. In the matter of athletics, we shall have soon plenty of room for such games and athletic developments as are not usually part of the physical training of American students. We hope to domesticate and enlarge the educational scope of many of the out-door sports which have been foreign to students or impossible, usually because there was not land enough, and secondly because of the time used upon inside gymnastic exercises. The buildings at present will occupy about eight acres. A large portion of the first forty acres will be left for future developments. The south forty acres of the tract will he devoted to such summer and winter out-door sports as will make out-door men supple and strong for their life work any where. Mr. Armour’s gift has not been unexpected. Mr. Armour and his associ- ates have studied this problem with the valuable help of other educators, es- pecially in more recent years, and has found that the only solution is an im- mediate and large gift that we may inaugurate here and now a foundation for technical training commensurate with the intention of the Armour friendship for such education and what must be the largest opportunity and duty. Our city is soon to be the greatest engineering city in the world. This work will be commenced and prosecuted as rapidly as possible, in view of our respon- sibilities in the case. Dr. F. W. GunsauluSs 1 X Nineteen x X
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OKI ' i9 - THE CYCLE - 20 oic U! jr I III y! x; u ped one by one to meet the increasing demand for young men trained in ap- plied science. In 1901 co-education in the Academy was given up, so that tlie instruction is limited to young men. All the engineering courses have strengthened from year to year. Departments of Chemical Engineering and Fire Protection Engineering have been added to the other engineering depart- ments. Since 1902, Evening Classes and Summer Course have been offered and much good has been derived from these. An additional building known as Machinery Hall was erected in 1902, Mrs. P. I). Armour having donated the building, while Mr. J. Ogden Armour bore the expense of providing equipment. Mr. J. Ogden Armour also presented the Institute the ground known as Ogden Field, the opening of which greatly stimulated the interest in Athletics at Armour. The latest addition to the buildings of the Institute is Chapin Hall. During the summer of 1909, a fire occurred on the third floor of the “main building” in the store-room of the Chemical Department. Quite a loss was suffered, but was fully covered by insurance. The store-room was immediately rebuilt and is now very much better than ever. THE NEW A. I. T. THE Armour Institute of Technology, after twenty-five years of adjustment and re-adjustment to opportunities and conditions, has adopted its ma- tured plans for the future and has received a substantial gift of land and money from Mr. J. Ogden Armour, so that it will inaugurate and develop its com- pleted plans. The difficulty of obtaining a proper location has been great. It has cost one million dollars to find and obtain title to a contiguous parcel of land upon which the institution may stand and develop for all time. It will occupy the entire eighty acres near the lake south of the South Shore Country Club. This tract has been formerly known as the Windsor Park Golf Club. The land has been purchased, and is now turned over to the Armour Institute of Technology. The Institute has sought the advantage of a situation easily approached by the city and suburban service of the Illinois Central and the Baltimore Ohio Railways. Near the north portion of the land obtained is the Windsor Park station of the Illinois Central which will be reached in a few minutes from down town, when the railway and the Institute have completed their arrangements. The cross town electric lines at the north of the campus on 75th street are satisfactory. On the south end of the campus at 79th street are electric lines connecting the west and southwest sides with our location satis- factorily. The Baltimore Ohio almost touches the southwest corner of the eighty acres. The lake is within a few blocks and will furnish opportunity not only for water athletics, but hydraulic engineering and marine engineering, which must be undertaken in time. On the south are the great steel and cement plants of the Calumet district. These are not surpassed in the world for the uses of an institution whose students must visualize engineering pro- cesses in maufacture. Modern methods with us require visits to operative industries with which high grade engineering concerns itself. The tentative plans for our buildings with the accompanying sketch of their arrangement, constitute only a provisional study. They have required a gift of $5,000,000.00 for their erection and extra equipment. The whole scheme which has been worked out after a quarter of a century of experience Eighteen DOC DOC
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