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

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fn l898 Mr. and Mrs. Durand added to the two Durand buildings located on the north campus a third, which is known as Alice Homef, This is a model infirmary, open to the service not only of students of the University schools, but also to the residents of Lake Forest and neighborhood. Here, in residence, is a trained staff of nurses, and the local physicians give their services continually. In l899 Mrs. S. S. Reid presented to the University two most beautiful buildings, as memorials to her daughter and son, at a cost of S570,000. The Lily Reid Holt Chapelu is a nfodel of its kind, and is justly admired by visitors from many lands. It seats two hundred and fifty persons, and in the choir is a window by Lewis Tiffany. This Gothic structure is in perfect unison with the forest surroundings. Here the daily chapel service and the Sabbath vespers are held, and here also the debate and oiatory contests take place. The Arthur Somerville Reid Library is built with the same kind of stone and in the same style as is the chapel, and is connected with it by a cloister. Ir has space for thirty thousand volumes, and now holds nearly two thirds of that number. ln I907 Mrs. Timothy B. Blackstone of Chicago gave two beautiful residence halls for college men, which are known as Blackstone Hall' and Harlan Hall. These up-to-date and convenient residences cost 372.000, and accomodate seventy men. Their opening, in the fall of I907, has done much to create a new pride in Lake Forest College among her graduates and students. Durand Commons , a new dining hall for men, will soon be ready for occupancy. This handsome building modelled after old English patterns, is the gift of Mr. Calvin Durand, a brother of the late Mr. Henry C. Durand. The cost of this building is fB30,000. It will be, when completed, one of the most artistic buildings in the town, and will do much to concentrate college interest on the campus. The latest addition to the college equipment is Carnegie Science Hall , the gift of Mr. Andrew Carnegie. It will cost 330.000, and when completed will be occupied by the Physics Laboratories. It is, although still incomplete, an imposing building. JOHN j. I-IALSEY. Presentation of Keys to Blackstone and Harlan Halls 19

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I ill? Cur College Buildings He l ffl N l87l the Lake Forest Hotel and Manufacturing Company put up a six story hotel building on the land now occupied by Blair Lodge, the IEW! home of Mr. Walter C. Larned. After conducting the hotel for five .4 p years at a continual loss, the company transferred the property to the trustees of Lake Forest University. In this building, containing sixty rooms for guests, besides a number of larger rooms for public purposes, the college began its career on the seventh of September, IS76, with a L freshman class of eight young men and four young women. In the night of December I6-I 7, l877, this building was entirely destroyed by fire, and nothing was saved but the small library of several thousand volumes. When the winter holidays closed, classes were resumed in what was known asu the old hotel, a building that had been put up in IS57 on the triangular park between Deer- path avenue and Mr. l. P. Rumsey's residence. This buiding, though sadly fallen from its high estate, may still be seen at the northeast corner of Railway Park. During the summer vacation in l878 a new college building, designed for that purpose, was put up on the central campus, and was the only college hall for a number of years. This building is now known as College Hall . The wooden structure at present known as The Commons was built in IS79. ln l88l the building formerly used by the famous school for girls conducted by Dr. Baxter Dickinson, was bought to be used as a residence for the college women, and was named Mitchell Hall , in honor of the astronomer, Maria Mitchell. This building stood where now stands the home of Mr. Trowbridge. ln l893 the Academy occupied the new buildings erected for its uses by Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Reid and Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Durand, and relinquished to the college the older academy building fbuilt in I879D now known as North Hall. ln the winter of l890-91 the present gymnasium was built and in 1892 the Durand Art Institute building was opened. This latter building cost S60,000, and is a most handsome addition to the town, facing as it does one of the main entrances to the campus. It consists of two stories over a high basement, is built of rough-faced Superior red sand- stone, and is finished in hard woods. The main floor contains the college offices and an auditorium-rising to the roof, which will seat five hundred, and is used for lectures, concerts, dances, and the annual commencement dinner. The Gymnasium was built of the same material as the Art lnstitute, and in the same massive style, at a cost of 530.000, It is well equipped for the best work. ln 1897 North Hall, of which the original cost was 520.000, was completely reconstructed, at a cost of Sl6,000. It is now a thoroughly modern and convenient dormitory of thirty rooms, and contains also the Y. M. C. A. assembly hall, and recitation rooms for Political Science, Mathematics, Philosophy and Biblical Literature. The Art Institute contains recitation rooms for the language departments, and College Hall accomodates the Biological and Chemical Laboratories, as well as the English and History departments. On the topmost floor of this building, also, are the halls for the two literary societies for men-Athenaean and Zeta Epsilon. ln i897 Mr. H. C. Durand gave to the college the handsome residence for college women known as Lois Durand Hall . The cost was 335,000 This building ac- commodates fifty young women, and has a well equipped boarding department-and an attractive assembly room, which from time to time serves the purposes of the literary society for women, the Aletheian. The older home for women, Mitchell Hall, was sold to the city of Lake Forest, and on another site is now known as the South Public School. 18

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uf? The University Club 1 I907-8 JOHN SCI-IOLTE NOLLEN . . . President VVM. MATI-IER LEWIS . Vice-President MISS MABLE POWELL . . Secretary G. A. FERGUSON ..... Treasurer EXECUTIVE COMMITTE john M. Clapp fChairmanJ, Miss C. Brown fI'Iouse Committeej, with Miss Carrie Ripley fMusic Committeej. PROGRAMME November 7, Professor I-I. W. Wright November ZI, Professor Alexander Smith December I2, Christmas Party january I6, Mrs. Theodore Thomas Music by Vilini Trio February I3, Rev. Z. B. T. Phillips February 27, Mr. D. C. Crawford March IZ, Professor Edward Baillot March l9, Lois Durand Hall Glee Club---Cantata April I6, Professor Toffteen May I4, Professor Paul Shorey The Bross Lectures for I907 By the terms of a fund established in l879 by the late William Bross, Lieutenant- Cnovernor of Illinois in I866-1879, the Trustees are enabled to appoint distinguished men from time to time to deliver courses of lectures on the connection, relation and mutual bearing of any practical science, the history of our race, or the facts in any department of knowledge, with and upon the Christian Religion. The first series of Bross Lectures was given in l904 by President Francis L. Patton, of the Princeton Theological Seminary, on Obligatory Morality. The second series was given in l904 by Professor Marcus Dodds, D. D., of Edinburgh, on The Bible, it's Origin and Nature. The Bross Lecturer for 1907 was Professor Arthur Thomson, an eminent British naturalist, noted for poetic imagination and charm of style as well as erudition in the field of biology. A His live Bross Lectures were upon The Wonder of the World. The Order and Progress of Nature, The Method of Animate Evolution, Man's Place in Nature. and The Spirit of Nature. I-Ie also delivered two popular lectures -one upon 'LThe Biology of the Seasons, the other upon the subject, Some Wonders of Bird Life in Great Britain. 20