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

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This year has seen the completion of plans for merging Armour Institute of Technology with the Engineering College of Northwestern University. The consolidation is a logical and happy solution of the problems confronting the officers of the Institute at the present time, and it marks the beginning of a period of expansion that will make Armour Institute of Technology the foremost engineering school in the West, both in prestige and in physical equipment. The expansion program calls for a joint drive by Armour Institute of Technology and North- western University for the purpose of raising, during the next live years or sooner if possible, a capital fund of ten million dollars. Five millions of this is to be used for the erection of buildings on the Evanston Campus and on the Alexander McKinlock Campus, and five millions is to be used as an endowment fund. The one phase of the matter that gives the keenest pleasure both to the students and to the alumni is that the name “Armour will be forever retained in the name of the school. As Armour College of Engineering and Architecture of North- western University the school will remain as a living memorial to its founder, Mr. Philip I). Armour, and to the members of the Armour Fam- ily who have carried on his great work. Joe Cjeosqu-ftt o O © o £ JX. o

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The affiliation between Armour Institute and Northwestern University adds another chapter to the short and eventful history of the Institute. Its history is that of an idea, crystallized by the eloquence of Dr. Gunsaulus and brought to a prac- tical realization by the founder, Mr. Philip I). Armour. Dr. Raymond, in his speech at the Mid- winter banquet tells us of the founding of the Institute in these words: It really, therefore, owes its inception to these three people: Mr. Philip I). Armour, who fur- nished the money and created this wonderful op- portunity for the young people of Chicago and the Middle West: Dr. Frank W. Gunsaulus. in whose imagination and vision such a school assumed definite form; and Mrs. Julia Beveridge, whose practical ideas instituted in the minds of these unusual men of foresight the basic ideals, or a conception of the foundation upon which the super- structure of this future institution of technology' was to be built.” There have been many changes made since the Institute first opened its doors in 1803 as a Poly- technic school for both sexes, and of the many departments in the original organization the col- lege of engineering alone remains. With the passing of the years the prestige of Armour has 0 O - o o H JL SL o c o ©