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

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FL KHAKF lh-mmmt uln' T H IC D E Y E L 0 P M 143 N T P R U U R A M stciri-s contribution is to ht: used to establish in thc Lying-in Hospital building to he erecled :m the medical quatlrtulglcs. an outpatient department which shall be operated as part of the Max lipstcin Clinic. Another medical building will be the Charles Gilmzln Smith Memorial lluspitul frlr Cuntalgiuua tliscztseea. This will be erected at a cost. of $500,000. There will be two children's homes erected. One. the County Home fnr Gm- t'EllCSCEHI Children will be. located near Vx'heztmn. lllinuis. This will cost $l,zoo.ooo, The other the llmnc fur Dcstitute Cripple Children nr 1hr: Nancy Adele Mclilwec Memorial will be cast of tht: huspital building. This is 10 he built by two donal- tions of $300000 each from Gertrude Dunn llicks EillLl Hlizahcth S. Mcljlu'ce. A generous gift from Mr. Bernard A. licltlmrt has hccn utldctl tr: :1 fund already available and has made it pussihlc fur the university III pru'mcctl with a building on a scale adequate to the necds 0f tl'lC departments Hf physics, l'llutl'lCT'llilliL'St and a:atrrmramy. rather than :1 building of limited pussihllitics. ln rccugnilirm til Mr. lickhartls benefactinn. the building will be known :Is the Bernard A lickhur: Lab::iratorylh The building will crust apprt'iximatcly Kogaooo tlccmrtling 10 present estimates. The amount rif .Vlr. l'ickhztrtls gilt has not how disclosed, 'l-hc build- ing will he situzitcd just cast of Rycrscm Physical Lubrnrutury. Building projects fur the future :er thc Atlministrzn'imi Eliiltling tn lit: um- structed almig University Avenue at 5th Street; a group of grccnhrmsts :Llnng lnglesitle Avenue l'lClWCCII gflh and gch for tho Bmuny department; and :1 grmtp of juninr college dormitories and clttssnamns across the Midway.- tit Urccnu-uritl. At the close Of this year there will bc a ltJtElI 0f sixty-twu cnmplctctl builtlingg ran the University campus. A nnhler city hath had its birth. llhc city grcy that ne'er shall die . I My 25

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Soemi. SCIENCE; T H E D E V E L 0 P M E N T P R. 0 G H A M Structures for which ground was broken in the spring are the new Social Science building, between Harper Library uml the women's dormitoriest balancing the 'Weiboltlt Building. and the Jones Chemical Laboratory, which will rise beside the present Kent Laboratory. The Social Science Building for whieh the Laura Spelmzm Rockefeller Foundation gzn'e 5411100300, will give the University a solid Golhic Trent on the Midwayr side from Ingleside Avenue to Kimbark Avenue with the queptiun nf the space at University Avenue where the Presidentls house standsi This social science structure is to be devoted entirely to research in such sciences as sociology. pnlitical science, and social service administration. Across the campus on the side of the exact sciences the George Herbert Jones Chemical Laboratory, made possible by the gift nf George Herbert Jones. Inland Steel magnate of Chicago. will cost $605,000. 11 will be devoted lor the most part to laboratories for loo research wnrkers who will carry on the Universityla many inquiries: into the nature of chemical reactionsv This building will be unique in that i! anticipates radical changes in the procedure of experimental chemistry by having equipment and interinr walls movable. The present Kent Chemical Laboratory will be turned river to the uses of undergraduate chemists. There are many other buildings which will be erected sometime within the next year. The medical group will be the recipient of the majority nf the thlnzlu timis. Hn junuary 7', 1923, Mr. Albert D. Lasker and his wife, Floral UL Lasher. esluhliahetl at the University The l,ilsltel Fruundatinn for Medical Research, with an initial emlmvment of one million dollars. The immediate work 0f the Lusker l'latlittlettiult will be det't-ted II: a study ml the causes. nature. preventiuIL and cure crf the degenerative diseases. Mr, Max Epsteinx who established the Max lipstein Clinic in the University Hf Chicago ClinicS, has given $100300 10 be subscribed to the building Fund of the Chicago lq'ing-ln Ilr'aspital. Mr. lip- ; ugr' .1;

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A L 1' MN! The graduating seniur finds himself in t1 queer srurt of world. lntrigties :md :Lmhuscades await him around every corner. and there are plcnly Hf corners. The more chapters he lives lhe more the plot thickens. A fellnm' ht Detrnit spenth mnnths devis- ing :1 new Llutomnbile. While the wrxrltl Innks m1 upeneLI-mr'rulhad. A man in Chtcagn': Ieath :1 crusade against the unsuspecting King rrf England A sunrc of rather men. in 21 SCHTC Hf uther cities. are inventing new ways of getting vntcs: they want tn sit in the White House :md preside m'er all this. Whether we hkc it of nut we must face. this maelstrom. Hie are citixens of the world and we calft very well immigrate. The graduating senior is a part raf the 'l'u'cntieth Century. The Twentieth Century will not let him forget it. It has an annoying habit nf reminding him. Luckily. cicarvmimlcd men are at work charting this mean. They consider what Uthers have learned. 'Ihhcy try. by bold experimentst tn learn murc. The Chicugm graduate has Studied wilh a cnmpuny of such men. Some hf lhem have becnme his friendst He has watched their experiments. He him taken part in some nf themt He has lived richly hcrc. emd learned tr: face life gaily. His adventures need not end after he receives his diploma. It is the business of the Alumni Council U: see that they L10 1101 endt tr: report to him in the University of Chicago Magazine: The tllit't'rSil-X'E Contributirms tn the AHetirs of the Nation. Discoveries ubnut methods of business and industry: a prrafcssnrhs investigatimt 0f Soviet Russia; surveys nf Ihe pnlitical situation; studies nf Wnrld lenders. Advances in I'Lduczltirm at the University. New courses; the improved dean system; xuczttimnal guidance 21nd appointment to Organize the religious life of the L.?nit'ersity; courses frar alumni; arlicleh by Dean Boucher 21nd Ollier leaders in the Cducattnnzll advance. Knml-Julm Paw Jr!