University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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S5l00,000 made provision for the erection of the Haskell Oriental Museum. The building is to be a memorial of her husband, Mr. Frederick Haskell. The Yerkes Astronomical Observatory, which is to have the finest teles- cope in the world, was the gift of Mr. Charles T. Yerkes, of Chicago, and is tolbe located at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. The observatory besides containing a telescope valued at S5500,000 will be thoroughly equipped with all the modern astronomical apparatus and appli- ances, together with a large astronomical library. W., 1 4 7 . l 3 . , . VV f'?I g'4 I K ' , X' , V ff?22Q.- f' iff ,f ' V, V Q ' , . 5249 ' 5,1 ' ' fb Z :qf7a fVl,,, V V ' Qc , . ,I , W .V -V lz. ' , V . ,, ay. V ,ip , 1 gn, V f , , -ff V ' - ,f ggi' lf: 'vi 1 K he --,V V VV ' y .1 l V5 t' ' t' .,.. a..,,,,,, .,,.,a:,, lf itm. . fa f. . ,f r. ' f fi' p .ff .rf fl -if -- .f Z fQyJ'3a,g,a:712ff -ffgpggf 4 4 Vi I -,lf-V: 1 T fZ2?f ' 5. - ' ' ' f ' fa - . VK- .. 4. ' . - uf f b V f, .M :N ,, , ,A V VIW, , ,I Iuzfgiz 1,1 yy. . .4 ,H 9 - ,,,,,N,,, V X. V - . x V- if :v54'm A f Z , - , ,W-ff ...,.. ..: i ' .. .g::,.,,:.:..,ZVl :V-PLL'-.--als ' 'f ' - , .V f-i' VV l ' i f , ---- rw if V' - ff' --ff e W1 2- im-M f .fp ., 1.41-, '-v,V'lgV- 5- WTI- V '.e-on-a:',:'f4V I-.V-eff-19612 ., i ., ' , gf sii.. .i:g5.:1g1:.,V1i ' fgf e ef v'fg?E2'g7Z 4 A , ' , 1 V- . V - -aff,-'gf -.VJ-,.-m.,,'4 ipfff ,' f , if f'1:'1,' ':, 'f ig' 1f1:yV2ll-'pig-,IL-', Vd ,:fP, 'ff' gjg ,Qgfay rg. Q - ' fx I si ,' 9 ' Q aff I i' f ' , A as ,if , . N ,, z,, ,ggpfn S , f ,, A ,Q ,f ., 1 , if - -W f i J, V V, . V , . 2 T . . f ,, ., A 4, ..,5V,,,, ?.,.,..,6, W., ,, N, Wg ,,,,'.V , , L ,, W, , p , 4 , . , ' ff ff 'ff' V - - 1 - V- 7- iw - - ,- .,.'- -Vifwsa-if ,. , 2 . - '- '.:'g:,,:4:...::'?'2sf. jf Tf,7 . -:Q ', Q vw A p., 717 . PV V. ..... 1 'Q-1-f-if-----..1: ff - ' ' f ,v'.,gK1' Y? ,kai N -1' -VV0 , 574, Q ' - ,ga 'a: f- .45 - , KL,-f f 5 :,,1 Q'- v-li'-S?-'If J -i ' ' LE 1, ' 1. ' VW, 'ii' J. ' - J -. Q7 'o 1f7.','J y - fx .f:7Z 1: , . ' .. H . . ' V ,. ., 1, , - , Q, Q- , f ,, f f ,, -, . ' -' '- .2- . .T Nm' .. V..,f .V,..M..-, . ,V who All , . i- Mm, ,,M.,....,hV..,,a, .1 ,. . ,94,,,,,,-,aM,tw- ,iw . , ,5 ..,,.,,n-may- w.,V,.f -.-,NWai,,,,,,.,,,,,,.4W:-,,,-,., .. Y. V b A 151 V BEECHER HALL The University opened its doors to students on October 1, 1892, occupying Cobb Lecture Hall, and the graduate and divinity dormitories, the only buildings then ready for use. Other buildings were rented for the scientific departments and as dormitories for students. The number of students matriculating in the course of the iirst year, in all departments of the Univer- sity, including the Academy and excluding the University Extension Division, exceeds 900. In addition to the University campus of twenty-four acres, which is

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devoted to the Work in electricity and magnetism. On the second floor are found a large general laboratory for ad- vanced undergraduate Work, optical laboratories, a chemical laboratory, large dark room, two developing rooms, and the large lecture hall with its adjoining apparatus and preparation rooms. The offices of the Director and Faculty are also on this floor. The third Hoor is devoted to a general laboratory for the under- graduate work in general physics, which, with its adjoining apparatus and preparation rooms, occupies the entire third floor of the east wing. MRS. BEE!!-IER On the same iloor are found two general laboratories and the rooms designed as the class rooms, library and reading rooms, but which are temporarily used by other departments. NIH XI-Rkl The central part of the fourth floor forms a hall for experiments requiring a large space. The roof above this portion is flat and suit- able for observations in the open air. A shaft has also been provided for pressure-gauges and for experi- ments requiring a greater vertical distance than is found in the labora- tories. Recent investigations have shown that the location of the Ryerson Laboratory is an exceedingly good one and that the outside disturb- ances which are usually so annoying are at a minimum. In June, 1894, Mrs. Caroline Has- kell, of Chicago, by a subscription of

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l 1 L RYERSON PHYSICAL LABORATORY gradually being divided into quadrangles and approaching its ultimate form, there is an athletic field of some six acres enclosed by a board fence and con- taining a running track, base ball diamond and foot ball field. This field for outdoor athletics was leased to the University by Mr. Marshall Field and in his honor it is called t'Marshall Field by the students. The buildings already erected on the campus are the following: Cobb Lecture Hall, a general recitation and administration buildingg Kent Chemi- cal Laboratory, Walker Museumg Ryerson Physical Laboratoryg a group of graduate and divinity dormitoriesg Snell Hall, a dormitory for undergraduate meng Beecher, Kelly, and Nancy Foster Halls, for womeng and a temporary structure for the general library, the gymnasium for men, and the gymna- sium for women. There are 162 professors in the University at present giving yearly instruction to about 1,450 students. Eleven buildings are already completed and occupied and the institutions financial resources amount to about Sf,,ooo,ooo. Truly it is indeed a marvelous and wonderful age, when such a great institution as this can rise up and take an honored place alongside ofthe oldest and greatest universities in the world, within the space of three short years.