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

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I-IUGIGIICC Backward BEING A CHRONICLE 0F HIE PROGRESS 0f IIIE UNIVERSITY f0R TH! PAST TWO YEARS A up HE University has at last reached that degree of vine-clad dignity where i it has a Past. From that time all glory datesg in that atmosphere A traditions flourish. Already members of the Class of '96, the first 21 regularly graduated class, are returning to regale the students of the present with tales of the old days and wonder if the fun now can compare with the larks of '94 or the wild freedom of '93 before the Midway was cleared away. They stroll about the campus in quest of old-time haunts only to start and stare at a massive pile of austere gray suddenly looming up before them. Occasional visitors go into ecstasies over our stupendous piles and tell you what an education they would have had if they could have read Homer in red-roofed buildings. Then they tell you how much of the University could be seen tor, rather, was not to be seenj from the Ferris wheel. The nightwatchman will tell you over his mid- night pipe how his boy used to shoot ducks where the gymnasium now stands. Why the boy's sport should have been spoiled for the sake of the present building is a mystery known doubtless only to the President and to the Senior Class. Notwithstanding this example of apparent retrogression, the growth of the University in the past two years has been phenomenal. The four Biological buildings in Hull Court, with their well-equipped departmentsg the Yerkes Observatory at Williams Bay, Wisconsing the elaboration of the system of aiiiliated institutionsg the widening of the scope of the University Extension, and the international expeditions in which the University is a coiiperator, mark a development unequalled by any other institution of learning in the world. December 14, 1895, Miss Helen Culver of Chicago presented to the University property valued at fl,000,000, the whole gift to be devoted to the increase and spread of knowledge within the field of the biological sciences. A part of this large contribution was intended to further endow the biological departments, a part for the erection of buildings, a part for sustaining an inland experimental station and a marine laboratory, and a part for sustaining on the West side of Chicago, University Extension lectures on biology, particularly on the advances of science in sanitation and hygiene. This contribution is a memorial of Charles J. Hull, who was a trustee of the old University of Chicago. The corner-stones of the buildings were laid July 3, 1896, during the Quinquennial celebration. Work was pushed rapidly 8