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3lmprnwrmrnts mt titr (EamiJUH ri ' IlIX the last three years .$43,000 has been spent in improv- ing the University campus. It may be difficult to compre- hend how so large a sum has been invested, as improvements have been gradual, and ver ' often below the surface of the ground. It is this steady woik of the Department if lUiild- ings and Grounds that has converted the main campus from the original marsh and sand lot to its present beauty. A ' ork undergToiuid has included the laying of new sewer systems, water pipes, and steam heating conduits. On the surface new concrete walks ha e been laid; trees have been planted and lawns graded. The planting of a tree calls for the removal of over six feet of sand, this being replaced by rich soil. A foot of sand has been removed from the permanent lawns. The department is now engaged in planting sixty-four elm trees in two rows, along each side of the cement driveway between Cobb Hall and Le.xing- toii. The trees are fifteen years old and consequently about six inches in diameter. As soon as this has been completed all the lawns on the north third of the Quadrangles will be brought to grade and made permanent. This part of the campus will then be practically in a finished conditi(in. The next improvement which Superintendent McLean will undertake will be the building of an underground cement cellar behind Kent Iheaier to pro idc storage room for explosives and inflanimalilcs which are used in the laboratiiry. When this is completed the remainder ■ ] the season will he gi en over to building drixes, laying walks, and planting trees in the central open space in front of the laboratories. It is hoped that by the end of the season one may drive through the campus from llull gate on h ifty-fifth street to the new entrance on Fifty-ninth street.
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®!)r Ufarppr mpntnrtal ICtbrarg THIN auotlicT tif cal yc-ar tlii.- students may expect to see ground roken along the Midway between Foster Hall and South Divinity fcjr the newest and most important of University buildings, the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library. Already $157,000 i lias been raised by a vigorous campaign. When the funds reach he $200,000 on July 1, 1908. Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the founder if the University, will present the trustees with $3.00 fur e -ery fd. making a total of $600,000 for the new library. . t the same time that the library is erected the new classical building will Ije built. M(inc - for this handsome building is already at hand and the plans are com- plete. It will stand on the Midway, with the library proper on the East and South l)i iiiity on the West. Together with the library and a building to be erected near Foster Hall it will constitute what will be known as the William Rainey Harper Mem- orial group. Plans for these new buildings are in the hands of the architects. Shepley. Rutan Coolidge, who have prepared a plaster cast of the new library. These plans show that the group will be an important addition to the architectural beauty of the Uni- versity of Chicago. In keeping with the general styles which has made Chicago the mecca of architects these new structures will reflect a wonderful consistency and at the same time the newest development and growth of that architecture which is made famous in Ryerson and the Tower group of buildings. Dr. Ernest DeWitt Burton, chairman of the faculty committee on buildings and grounds recently gave in detail the proposed new library system. He said : .■ s long ago as 1898 President Harper appointed a committee of the Senate to consider on the basis of the six years experience already had the educational questions connected with the lilirary building, and from that day the problem of the library building has been under almost daily consideration in some one or more of the gov- erning bodies of the University. The relatively large development of the depart- mental library system at the University makes the problem of a general library build- ing a peculiarly difficult one. The ideal is that every departmental building shall have its own departmental library in close contact with lecture rooms and seminar rooms ; and that all these departmental libraries shall be in close contact with the General Library, and with one another. With a view- to realizing this impossible ideal as nearly as practicable the Board of Trustees in 1902 approved a plan by which the General Library was to be located on the Midway frontage of the main campus, half way between Ellis and Lexington Avenues, and connected with the departmental buildings of the Historical and Social Sciences, Philosophy, Law, Modern Languages Classics. Oriental Languages and Theology, the whole constituting a splendid group of eight buildings with the Hbrarv building itself as the commanding member of the whc.le. ' . The help of every student in the University of Chicago is needed for an early realization of this great plan. The united effort of the alumni associations all over the country is already making itself felt. The student body will be ready to express its loyalty by a hearty response to the lall for subscriptions to the new William Rainey Harper MenK.irial Library. mnfflrfM
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