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

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ca IQII an ann ooaun, c lil. The New Ryerson Physical Laboratory ROBERT ANDREWS NTILLIKAN Through the generosity of the donor of the original physical laboratory, Mr. Martin A. Ryerson, the long felt and increas- ing need for enlarged quarters and better facilities for research work in physics is at last being met. Wlithout in any way im- pairing the striking beauty of the old building as viewed from the south, an auxiliary building three stories in height and sixty feet square is now in course of erection in the space directly north ofthe original structure. Connection between the build- ings is made on the first HOOI only, by means of an arched pas- sage iifteen feet in length. The basement and first floor of the new building are to contain the machine shop, a storage-battery room, a power machinery room,and high and low temperature ' research rooms. On the second floor will be a small lecture room, a large laboratory for undergraduate students, and two 1 research rooms. The entire third Hoot is to be one large room i in which special experiments requiring large, free space, will be carried on. MARTIN A- RYERSUN Extensive changes are also to be made in the interior of the old Ryerson. The removal of all machinery to the new building will make possible much more accurate work in experiments in which the tremors of the machinery have previously in- terfered. The additional space afforded bs' the new building combined with the remodeled old one will more than double the capacit-Vifor research work as well as considerably increase the instructional facilities ofthe laboratory. As a result ofthese changes ample room is provided not only for present needs but also forifuture growth. :3:A.iQ 79yef'5 on 1 fbi -1 ' gg' fcom . MO,-cf, X 25, fan W Kenf C N l9lO ,W IS'

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EQ one IQII gap gnu oocizxndjlgl Architectual etails of the New Library Dfxvm ALLAN ROBERTSON Appreciation ofthe University of Chicago architecture increases greatly the happiness of living in the city grey. Most students of the University know that the Mitchell Tower is a frank adaptation of Magdalen College and that Hutchinson Hall is practically a replica of Christ Church Hall. Not so many know the prototype ofthe Law School to be Kings College Chapel at Cambridge and the fortress-like entrance of the Gymnasium to be suggested likewise by the gateways of the College on the Cam. Fewer still have given any heed to the details richly gracing our buildings. The lions on Mandel Hall, the bunting goats on the Gymnasium, the monkey on Hutchinson Hall, apparently annoyed by the perennial Hock of red ants, the Moses on the Law Building, the shields in Hutchinson Hall, are generally not understood. Richer interest will be taken in the William Rainey Harper Memorial Library when it is known that every detail ofthe building has some interesting significance. College coats ofarms have been very largely used both within and without the structure. Cn the north elevation, over the third story windows of the west tower are the shields of Harvard, Northwestern, In- diana, Johns Hopkins, Minnesota, Michigan, and Princeton Universities, over the east tower, Wisconsin, Denison, Cornell, Pennsylvania, Columbia, Vassar, and California, over the second story windows above the main entrance to the west tower, Yale University, University of Vir- ginia, University of Illinois, and Leland Stanford Junior University, over the main entrance ofthe west tower, University of Chicago and the United States of America Csee cut belowjg and on the parapet over the reading room, United States, flanked by Annapolis and West Point. On the south elevation, between the Hrst and second StOI'y' windows of the west tower, are the shields of Toronto, McGill, Williams, Bowdoin, Amherst, Brown, Dublin, and Edinburgh, over the third story window, west tower, from left to right, London, Leyden, Gottingen, Upsala, Aberdeen, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Pisa, Leipsig, Basle, Geneva, Manchester, and Vienna, over the third story window, east tower, seven Oxford shields, and seven Cambridge shields, the shields of the two Universities in the center, New College, Christ Church, Balliol, Oxford University, Criel, Magdalene, Trinity, Peterhouse, Pembroke, Kings, Cambridge University, Trinity, Emmanuel, St. Johng and on the parapet over the central window of the reading room, the University of Chicago, in design of foliage. Surely some of the members of the University should do for the Library, as significant deco- rations, what Mr. Horace Spencer Fiske, the Assistant Recorder of the University, has already done for the crockets and grirfins of Hull Gate. Certainly all should know and enjoy the rich architectural embellishments of our University. snug., V ,VL,L,tT,.,,,1. sw- f-n. ..-. .....,.. 1, ., 1. Q EREMNCP WHT rowen Y o. lc. .- vir,z..ia, , ' tnT i 11

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1' ' T 1' -1 Grief1Q11,CfeP--eHDe0G1IL':Il7iE SEVENTY-FIFTH CONVOCATION FRANK DICKINSON BARTLETT, GYMNAs1UM .TUNE 14, IQIO Convocation Orator: The Reverend Frank YValcely Gunsaulus, D. D., I,L. D., President of The Armour Institute of Technology and pastor of the Central Church of Chicago. Subjert: A Great Library. SEVENTY-SIXTH CONVOCATION LEoN lVlANDEL, ASSEMBLY HALL SEPTEMBER 1, IQIO Convocation Orator: Professor Roscoe Pound, Ph. D., Professor of Law in the University of Chicago. Subject: The Law and the People. SEVENTY-SEVENTH CONVOCATION LEON lVlANDEL, AssE1v11sLY HALL DECENIBIER zo, IQIO Confuocation Orator: Dr. Albert Ross Hill, Ph. D., LI.. D., President ol the Universitv of Missouri. i Subject: Some Successes and Failures of the American College. SEVENTY-E IGHTH CONVOCATION LEON lVlANDlE.L, ASSLMBLY HA11. lVlARCH 21, IQII Convocation Ornfor: Professor Challes Hubbard hlucld, Ph. D., LL. D., Professor and Head of the Department of Educatiori of the University of Chicago. Subject: Individualism in the Choice of Subjects. LU L 19 -L