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

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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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Ilrnfcssnr Nirhnlas riin Nich. LI. is h, Si-iiu. M.I).. iif .Surgery in the L ' nix-crsity of 11 Ru.sh Medical College, died Chicago, of chronic myocarditis 111 ililitatuni of the heart, January 2, 1908. He was lidni in Buchs, Cautin Yall, Mtzerlanil. ()( toiler ,i 1 , 1844, and came to IS rountrv ni l.S.si. with his parents. From c beginning of his practice in 1874 he spent uch time in experimental work and his con- ihutions to surgical science, embodied in a ng series of monographs, mark an epoch the histor - of American surgery, not for their intrinsic value, but because ev inspired many young men to take up in- stigation along similar lines. In large part ■- enduring fame will rest on the fact that was the fiaiiuler of experimental surgery . merira. He became [inifessor of surgery in the Col- e of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, in 1,SS4. professor of the principles of surgery in Rush Medical College in 1888, and professor of the principles and practice of surgery, in the same institution, in 1892, on the death ■)f Professor Parks. At this time he removed to Chicago, and began that remarkable series of clinical lectures which attracted students and prac titioners from all parts of the world. It was his constant habit to work from sixteen to eighteen hours a day throughout his life. His clinics, conducted after an arduous forenoon of operating on private patients at the St. Joseph ' s Hospital, usually extended from 2 o ' clock in the afternoon until 7 or 8 in the evening, five or six hours of continuous operating and lec- turing. The evenings far into the night and early morning were devoted to experi- menting and writing, and the fruit of this unremitting toil, in addition to numerous papers and addresses, was some twenty volumes on surgical subjects. Dr. Senn was especially interested in military surgery, rendered invaluable service to his country in the Spanish-American war, founded the American Association of Military Surgeons, and at least two state associations of similar character, was surgeon- general ' of the State of Wisconsin and later of Illinois. He gave nearly $100,000 to Rush Medical College, a magnificent collection of medical books to the Newberry Library, and many lesser gifts to other institutions. He had been president of the American Medical Association, of the . merican Surgical Association, the American Association of Military Surgeons, and several other state and local societies. He was a member of numerous medical and scientific bodies throughout the world. Lie was elected Professor of Surgery in the LTniversity of Chi- cago in 1905. Master surgeon, wise physician, great teacher, brilliant and fruitful investigator, prolific and fun eful writer, extensive and observing traveler, generous benefactor to medical institutions — few men in its history have reflected so great honor upon the medical profession or attained such ilistinction as Nicholas Senn. ToHX M. Dnli.s.ix.