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

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throughout the following year, and they were formally opened at the ceremonies of the Nineteenth Convocation, July 1, 1897. The zoiilogical, botanical, anatomical and physiological departments now have equipments that place the University in the foremost rank of institutions for the study of the biological sciences. The other provisions of the gift are being carried out as rapidly as opportunities permit. The Hull Gate, and also the buildings, were designed and planned by Mr. Henry Ives Cobb. The Yerkes Observatory is a work of which the University is justly proud. With the largest and most powerful telescope in the world and unparalleled means for using it to the greatest advantage, we may, with all modesty, expect to make the most valuable contributions to learning in the field of astronomy for many years to come. The Observatory was founded in 1892, through the munincence of Mr. Charles T. Yerkes, of Chicago. In Ehat year Mr. Alvan G. Clark undertook the construction of an object-glass of 40 inches aperture, for the principal telescope of the Observatory, and Messrs. Warner 81 Swasey were given a contract for the equatorial mounting. The latter was completed in the following year and exhibited by its makers at the Columbian Exposi- tion. An important feature, employed for the nrst time in this telescope, is a system of electric motors by means of which the various motions are effected. The object-glass has been tested by Professor James E. Keeler, who acted at the request of the Director as the expert agent called for by the contract. The definition was found to be fully equal to that of the Lick telescope, while the light gathering power is considerably greater. The for- mal dedication and opening took place July 2, 1897. The University Press has achieved a national and international reputation for the journals and books which it has published during the past two years. Each department of the University has a periodical in which appears the latest contributions fb JW J, 0-sw P 1 ..f NN 95 v an' W: f NJ. 2.: 4 y f u 1 cl '01, 3 1,x v 'F-J' I 1 Win' i ...vfgf-P fee + f 'zu -1' 26 .,,:: 9,'.vf r 1 B W, rl pg I- '7 C' if wi: il' ' tg N Th.iZmb111-s .S qzrggik -sn,5,v.: ' .x,,.x' 1- - 1 Ll 'X it is :',. Q'1'-' '23 .xxx -Q,-g':,,,2t' aw. , A J' Wi xl-.Cv '51 sfax Ng 1:51 S2 L az V 'lib-if-2 X'-,sf ... 1 V' ilfw ,IFA :.,g., Q,-45.1.-.-Val:-. ,I 5 A I .- -is-eww-Q.-se.-A ' ' --'Hi M.. u-.u1vr::.:'.'2e1::L -.'1:h?.f:..::.3'a.-----: '- -f'?.3:Efi':1 ' ' b J ..--rms: '- . za-:gn-.-.r3.-.afar-1 H. .,..- .:1'g-L.:-2-:.-.5.. -'asm-.2'.i-ffsgg-zzz, ' -1 ':- '2.b.4h:51ag22f.:-'iq'111-:ca :'2-.faivizvfza-'rig' ta'-124: 'f5.1ffr.1,1'.5:1':. -r.f.a--:-:--:-.:-- . - 7.55-.'f4f3z-s':e:.q,:-'i'c M' r' ...:::s-fav 1 :fy - t, .aasE?24..'. T .- -- r -.- - - 9 . ..-1,-..' 4.12.----.wg .55 - --'-ytffgi. , -. 11-Q 6:3 fiiiilgiiif?-i':?2f5Ei5? :2-figf?S:f:5i:5,11X., -V 'E--'rn-.' '1'1-f?.3-Jr! Iwi:-425-'r-, 1-.-Spare? 1-1:-741. ' -.- - - - KN-J'-i'.' .mem --- -::-.--:sw-1 '-: 5:5 2,,. .--9 g- ,1 ..,..-.1-,. 1 ..,- 'f.- 4-L-mfg,-.:.' -, .5-.N-. g Q: . , .-.q3q,g::z-, 4-':l-.5:.'- L1.':.-sq' gt' :-.2251-,-:.'-,. -1',Hn-:'.-r ' - in-:::-5:5-'s'gf.5aa:,f7.1.g: ri:-1 ..t--, uv .-'f- fn- '--1 '- :-nu ., ... , . . .s.:s:.-N- . , ,.:-L. M: : ,,n.':q.n 1, ,I 'fain ,i...'l2.,xE.k 'haze' I7-'.,?52i'g5:.jijfitg1:E1q,l: , l.'-l- ' .. - :lin 5- -'34s 123:-15Ev-':'S57EqgE.5z.- . . 5-'ala'-3:-2 f :'5y:'?' -1:1-q,:2,:5,3-, ::m'i- -xg , -f ., j'.-.41Qflr3 - ' . --1'.-, 4,.-su: .7 -5.5 4, .Quiz Y.,-,I .IQ .11 333' Q27 '--'v -14s?'b.5 EB 5- QS-,46f4 t-.-F - -.- . . 1, . 1. . -.l - 'I . :M .... f 'L+'-':'f-,.,.,t1:t'EZx'3 2.53.4-' 1355 1.1 gf ': v.i.f! ,tus -:Ln , 'V ,gi ' 'link I n' D I ,KN --V. :...-- -'i-' if -1 :- -' - . . I, 4 . , 1 -I ' it Q , E.. ....:i'-Q E., hs.. p?'l2::,eJQ. -t . . .gm -,.-.1 J: 5-1 75:4 fat, 3-,' af Xi'-qw: ' 1-'ww fe. -- -ggwv-ps 'g -I 5' vb '15,Z',.'.'. .', 'Qt- ' ' . ' v n 'n - 1 - --- . -.1 -'.'.'.. . .v 1, .., . - . , -,, ,M..:-'-1-- --. .- 5 I IH vu is-2 ' A f If g 'Sp 'v, 'F f 'Y 'n ' -,t q . . .r 1 .3 .4 Q U nie E ST? to its own special field of knowl- I N 1 edge. In addition, books published under the direction of the departments and from the pens of professors pursuing individual research, have attracted the close attention of the scientiic and literary world. Plans for a large building adequate to the demands of the Press are complete, and work has already been commenced. The building will be located on the corner of Ellis Avenue and Fifty-eighth Street. It will contain the offices, composing 9

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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

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rooms, presses and mailing department. The latest machinery for making a great publishing house will be put in, and the scope of the department widened. The University might well be content to be known only through its Extension Department, which has brought its many advantages for culture and instruction to people who are prevented by circumstances from living on the campus or within daily reach of the quadrangle. During the year 1896-97 the department maintained 95 active Extension centers, with 141 courses in progress. Eight states were repre- sented. The total attendance at the Extension lectures was 29,344, and at the Exten- sion classes 17,382. Twenty-nine lecturers were engaged for the work of the year. In addition to the regular work the department has organized a system of traveling libraries that the student may obtain the necessary reference and text-books recom- mended in the various courses. Beyond our national boundaries the University has made a most creditable show- ing. Polar and Oriental expeditions of discovery and research have all had represent- atives, while our professors in the astronomical, geological and biological departments have been leaders and organizers of parties for furthering investigation in their res- pective realms. The Barrows Lectures, endowed by Mrs. Caroline E. Haskell, were delivered in India by john Henry Barrows, D.D., Professorial Lecturer for the University. Probably more exemplary of our astonishing growth than any other feature is the increase of the number of books in the libraries. For the two years ending with April 1, 1898, the additions have amounted to more than 25,000 books. By no means a minor feature is the organized system of afliliated institutions which cooperate with the University. The most important one aiiiliated during the period covered by this chronicle is the Bradley Polytechnic Institute at Peoria, Ill. This institution had the advantage of starting under the general supervision of the University. The opening of the school occurred October 8, 1897. As far as building is concerned the campus is changing as rapidly as the most lin-de-siecle co-ed could desire. The gods from the faculty room on Mount Olympus continue to decorate this little domain in large patches of cold gray and 'fiery red till the effect is most striking and bewildering. But where, oh where, is the landscape gardener to add a softening, inviting touch to the scene? This criticism is, We believe, common only among the men-the women care not a whit for the landscape so long as the trees in front of Kelly are strong enough to support a hammock and old enough to maintain a discreet silence. College spirit, about which so much has been said and written since the iirst student registered at Cobb Hall, is steadily growing. For a long time keen observers thought they saw manifested among the students that insidious germ which for want of a better term we call Harvard indifference. A second glance, however, proved 10