Lake Forest College - Forester Yearbook (Lake Forest, IL)

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iillnless the decision as to this general plan forces ns to delay a little the begin- nings of this new architectural era for lake lforest, we expect to break gronml for the College Coninions and at least one new tlorniitory, some time before the ap- proaching Coinmeiicementf' The first illustration gives one plan, now being considered by the Trustees. for firm dormitories, and the College Loininons. lAs we go to press, liowever, we are informed that the Commons will probably be built as an entirely separate bnil4ling.J , ,N 41- -.-fP'f'1.5:-'sz -' ' '1:fQr-'fr-w6rk..Q' X is ' ' V. 1' J nazi' V ,ir V, .xr 1 if , , l af Ah , ll! ! iiowmoxsg-in Q12g'w: '-gs.i5f 1 7,5151 T f 1 'Q .1 231,11 - 'Eiit.a.:13P:i1, ,aRQrf'rt:rs' v . , 3' nv 'Vl- -ar 1' use ll!! T111-1 Nicyy Svliixci-1 Haiti.

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The New Buildings for the College Lake Forest has a prospect of three, and possibly four, new buildings within the next yearg+A new College Commons lor Dining-Hall for menl: at least one new dormitory for men, and new Science Hall. For the College Commons, the students will be beholden to their long-time friend, Mr. Calvin Durand of Lake Forest. The first of the two new dormitories for men will be given by a generous Chicago woman. whose muniticent subscription of S3o,ooo will not only erect one beautiful dormitory. but will leave about S7,ooo towards a second one. Toward this second dormitory three subscriptions of SI,OOO each have already been made by Mrs. Simon Reid and Miss Helen Culver of Lake Forest, and Mr. Thomas Murdoch of Chicago, so that an additional 312.000 will insure its immediate erection. For the long-desired Science Hall, we shall be indebted to that great benefactor of the American Hsmall College, Mr. Andrew Carnegie, who, however, annexes to his gift the wise condition that an equal amount must hrst be raised, the income to be used for the maintenance of the Science Department. The following extracts from a recent article by Dr. Harlan will be of interest: Urdinarily, under the pressure of problems demanding immediate solution, a college gets one building at a time. Its trustees, using their best judgment upon an isolated proposition, make a hurried decision and place the building at what seems to be the best location, uf Mi' f1'11.r. A few years later, in response to another pressing demand. another building is offered and another hasty guess is made as to its location. But, by and by, the point is reached when a new generation, possess- ing fonr or live comparatively new buildings-all of them admirable, but all more or less awkwardly located-wishes in vain that former Boards of Trustees, looking ahead a little, had placed these costly buildings in accordance with some compre- hensive plan, both as to style of architecture and the relative position of the various editices. 'iBut at Lake Forest, the unexpected, and for us unprecedented, necessity of hav- ing to erect three or four buildings, at substantially the same time, has forced our Trustees to take a long look ahead, and to plan ultimately for an institution whose collegiate department alone will contain .too students, in addition to the numbers in the two preparatory schools. 'iTherefore, as far-sighted business men, we propose to have the courage of our dreams, at least to the extent of laying out a general architectural scheme for the future development of the College: and in putting up our new College Commons, two new dormitories for men, and a Science Hall, we shall locate them as a part, and, as we believe, simply the beginnings, of a comprehensive plan, which, though it may take 25 to 5o years to carry out in its complete form, is certain, some day, to be realized. In making this plan the Trustees will seek the help of more than one expert landscape artist as well as regular architects. We believe that the possession of such a general scheme will be a helpful safeguard and a constant in- spiration in the future development of the College. HFrom the nature of the plans for a Science Building, to say nothing of the wel- come necessity-Mr. Carnegie has placed upon us for making a campaign for addi- tional endowment, we cannot hope to begin the Science Building in time for occu- pancy during the next academic year, but we hope to have it ready for use by the autumn of 1907. We shall hasten the erection of the new College Commons and the two new dormitories for men as rapidly as possible. The Trustees are far more eager to begin these buildings than the students themselves, and not a day will be lost un- necessarily. But we wish to be sure we are right before we go ahead, because the erection of so many large buildings will irrevocably settle the lilies along which we shall develop for generations to come. In the meantime, the inspiring fact that we already have the money definitely assured for the central section of a new Col- lege Commons and for at least one new dormitory, will help us to possess our souls in patience.

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Ri l I l I I The Unlversity Club l . cimno Ii. II.yi:i,,yN, Il. D.. Ll.. D. . President PROP. jAMlfi tj. Ntii-.1iH.UI . . Vice President Miss Faxxirt lj. Przaiaixs . . . . Secretary NIR. filitllilili I'. Hiiiir . . . Treasurer IW:-ir. Licyvis S'i'r1yv.xa'r . . . . Chairman of Executive Committee Programme Octoller 26!l'aper hy Mr. NYalter V. Larneil on The Morlern School of Landscape Painting. Novemlier o-Paper hy Prof. Charles Stuart on A Poet Among the Painters. Novemlier 23-A Musical at Ferry Hall. lleeemher 7fI'aper hy Hr. Schuman of The Recortl-Herald on Hardy anil the Realistsf' january 15-l'aper hy j uclge Ilickinson on International Arbitration. February I5-l'rof. Charles l'ickett presented a paper on Dickens in Chancery. March 1-lllustraterl paper hy Mr. james Harlan on Experiences in Martinique. March I5 liLlPCl' hy Prof. Henry Stuart on BIysticism. March Zoflhtper by llrof. Bridgeman on the Olympic Games. illustrated. April I2-l'aper hy l'i-of. lfreir of Northwestern on The lfleal Element in Science. Mus H .xiii ,li sri- i- l'l.yni..xx l'ki4sA lx. ll. llaisigx tx Sluts. R lt. l'l.yi:i.xx ZO OF U. S. SUPREME COURT TO LAKE FOREST COLLEGE 1 I VISIT OF JUSTICE HARLAN , , Lake Forest College was honoretl last jane hy a visit from justice Harlan. of the Unitecl States Supreme Court. justice Harlan was visiting his son Richartl ll. Harlan. president ofthe College. Un Weilnesilay, june jth. justice Harlan began a series of Chapel talks on Government and the lfonstitution. These were continuetl Tliurstlay and lfritlay. The talks were not at all technical and were atlaptetl tu the ordinary stuilent. The univer- sality of the application nf the lairs to every citizen in thc lfnitetl States ivas contrasted with the contli- tions in continental liurope. In a very interesting manner the justice compare-l the American and liritisli constitutions. slioyring the advantages and workings of each. anrl emphasizing the check and lialance system. In the thirml talk. the judiciary as the highest power in the lanll was spoken of. The safety antl the surety of protection to every man on the liasis of the right of appeal was pronounced to he the greatest sateguartl to American liberty.