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

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Bond Hughes E. Rye rson Shull McCo rrnick Rosenwald Sharer Jennin gs M. Rye rson Dickerson Originally there were fifteen members of the Board of Trustees, but the number has since been increased to twenty-Hve with the provision that fifteen shall be members of Baptist churches. Of the Erst hfteen members of the Board two are still serving as members. Mr. Eli B. Felsenthal and Mr. Martin A. Ryerson. All but three of the twenty-four members of the present board are citizens of Chicago. They are all active business or professional men. including in the number lawyers, bankers. manufacturers, directors of eorpmw ations. a merchant. a physician and a minister. each chosen for his special Ht- ness for the responsible position he holds. t wa-h 9G ..-r :1? Page Salaam:

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mg. tree ' HiEhiMij QWEX AM especially glad to send a message to the members and friends of the University through CAP and GOWN. Few publications of the University come to so many of its intimate and interested friends. These will be pleased to know that the year now drawing to a. close has been one of the most intense activity. and has afforded grounds for the highest hopes in a degree exceeding any save the few earliest years of our history. The present situa- tion is the most interesting as well as the most critical that has existed during the thirty-four years since the University was founded. We have reached a Point in our history where great material expansion is neeeseary in order that We may realiZe the intellectual and spiritual aims f0: which the University exists. I am sure that I may assume that our students and alumni will be glad to learn somewhat specifically to what ob j ectives the trustees are already direct- ing their energies. The Theology Building and the Rawson Laboratory of Medicine and Surgery are now in the process of construction. Dehnite provision has been made for the erectiOn in the near future of the Bond Chapel, the Albert Merritt Billings Hospital and the associated building for the Medical School, the Uni- versity Chapel. and the Field House. Eight additional buildings are in prospect, namely: Modern Languages; Social Science; Chemistry; Mathematics; Physics, and Astronomy; Education, tWO buildings: and General Administration. The total amount required for these buildings is six million dollars. In addition to these, plans are in preparation for a group of buildings for teaching and residence to be located on the South Side of the Midway, and to be used by the colleges. leaving the Graduate and Professional Schools on the North Side Of the Midway where they are now located. Beside this provision for mate rial expansion, it is proposed to raiSe six and a half million dollars to be de- voted to the increased endowment of instruction, reSearch. and administration. :5 .t It is commonplace to say that men, not bricks and stone, make a Uni- versity great. At the same time it is true that in order to realize fully its potential greatness, a University must have adequate material equipment. And so far as possible, that equipment should possess beauty as well as utility. It is with this in mind that those who are seeking the realization of these plans have outlined the University of the future in a recent printed announcement, in the following paragraph: One of the most striking consequences of the successful completion of this program will be a continuous line of University buildings stretching on the North side oF the Midway from Drexel Avenue on the West to Dorchester Avenue on the East. On the extreme West will rise the great Albert Merritt Billings Memorial Hospital and the associated buildings of the Medical School OCCUPying a nine-acre campus; next, to the East will be the Harper Library Group. next, the new Chapel with its magnihcent Gothic tower dominating the entire line, then to the East. Ida Noyes Hall. and beyond. the completed School of Education. These buildings will combine to form an academic skya line which, for beauty of architecture, will stand unsurpassed in this country. if not indeed. in the world. i we; 4 : ERNEST DchTT BURTON. 3'4.- Pay: FJ'HITH

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gaxmh : :; .' -.':-n.o...'-4-:,-;4- 1m ' Grey SCott D 11 Lamont Lindsay Onne e? Holden Felsenthal Post Swift Axelson THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES Harold H. Swift.................. J. Spencer Dickerson..... ...........Chairman ,, ,, ,, Secretary MEMBERS Charles F, Axelson Robert P. Lamont William Scott Bond Frank H. Lindsay Ernest D. Burton Harold F. McCormick Thomas E. Donnelley Dr. Wilbur E. Post Eli B. Felsenthal julius Rosenwald Harry B. Gear Edward L. Ryerson, 11-. Rev. C. W. Cilkey Martin A. Ryerson Howard G. Grey Robert L. Scott Charles R. Holden Albm't W. Sharer Charles E. Hughes Deloss C. Shull' Samuel C. Jennings John Stuart .JFA. Page Swenrma