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

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) 1929 C«PflnD couin ( fe ■iv -.-;.-. . ' Social Service The past year has seen the completion of a few new buildings on campus and projects for many more. The dreams of the Board of Trustees and the founder of the University are gradually being realized. The building that is nearest completion is the George Herbert Jones Chem- istry Laboratory on the main quadrangle near the corner of Ellis Avenue and 58th Street. It was made possible through a gift of $665,000 by the Chicago steel manufacturer for whom it was named. It will provide facilities for research work now cramped in the present Kent Laboratory. All the apparatus in the building will be movable, for the chemistry world is looking forward to improved methods of experimentation which will demand new apparatus. The building will easily be made up to date at all times. The side walls will also be movable. The floor will be made of a new composition which will not crack. This laboratory is for research work exclusively and it is the only one of its kind in the country. It will contain one hundred two-man laboratories. The commons rooms will be unusually beautiful. The foundation has been laid for the Bobs Roberts Memorial Hospital which will be devoted entirely to the care of children. The Hospital was the $500,000 gift of Colonel and Mrs. John Roberts in memory of their son who died at the age of five. Mr. Roberts is president of the Miller Hart Packing Com- pany. The Hospital is to be built adjoining the south-west wing of the medical group. There will be beds for eighty children arranged in wards and single rooms. The roof will provide an open-air playroom and solarium so that the little invalids will get the benefit of the sunlight. Plans are being developed for a Lying-in Hospital which will l)e built across the street to the west. Mrs. Kellogg Fairbank is Chairman of the Foundation Board whicli has .ilready appropriated an amount of $2,400,000 fur l)uilclint; aii l cndinvment. n

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) 1929 CAPHriD courn ( Idl mL ,:I. ' 1 Intkrior View of ' ihk Chapel n The University Chapel The University Chapel, the last gift of John D. Rockefeller to the University was dedicated Octoher 28, 1928. At the same time the Reverend Doctor Charles Whitney Gilkey was installed as Dean. The founder of the University was represented by his son, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and there was a large congre- gation of Trustees, Faculty, students, alumni and friends of the University. The sheer beauty of the building, the glorious music of the choir, the ringing sincerity of the speakers, and the heartiness of the people ' s response to the dedicatory sentences — all combined to make it an unforgettable hour. The Chapel was the last work of Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue of New York- City. He died before his work was even started, that is, the actual building. The Chapel is not copied from any of the old world cathedrals but is an original creative work. The colossal scale upon which it is built is equalled by only two or three Gothic buildings in the world, and gives to the exterior a feeling of tranquility and simplicity, combined with e.xtraordinary power. The exterior is very richly adorned with sculpture. The great figures on the gable toward the South represent the March of Religion from the days of Abraham to the Reformation. Each doorway is beautifully adorned with sculpture dealing both with ancient and modern subjects. One interesting figure is that of the archi- tect, himself, holding in his hands a nKidc] ni the Chapel. He symbolizes Architecture. t ' ai e Twcnty-sii

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¥ 1929 CHV f nv GOUJn ( . ■ ' m,— sat itfe 2 «■ 1 iJS? .,- ' 5 ' ■ ' • , V R ' JQj jGiiK -. ' r ECKHAliT LaBOKATIIRV The foundation for the Social Science building has also been laid. This building will house the work of the University ' s important Local Community Research projects. The $575,000 fund for its erection was provided by the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Foundation. The building lies between Harper Library and Foster Hall and will complete the quadrangle on the Midway side. It will be the only building in the nation devoted exclusively to the social sciences. A series of botany greenhouses is near completion on Ingleside Avenue between 56th and 57th Streets. The greenhouses are equipped with the very newest and best apparatus available. Plans have been made for a central laboratory for Botanical research. This together with the greenhouses will e.xceed the cost of $250,000. Across the Midway we are seeing rise daily the new I ' ower Plant which in the near future will provide the University with light and heat. The entire plant including the units to be added later will cost about $1,500,000. It will eventually take the place, entirely, of the old Power House on Ellis Avenue which is gradually wearing out from over-strain. The location of the plant, F.lackstone Avenue and 61 st Street, will save the University exactlv $20,000 which it costs to cart coal through the streets to the L ' niversity. The new plant, with its side-track, will relieve the stress of this burdensome traffic and reduce the fuel cost. The building w be narrow and high and of dark red brick trimmed with Bedford stone. The stacks, which will be partly hidden by the roof, will be 150 ft. high. From the standpoint of operating efficiency it will rank with the largest modern central plants. An important part of the project is the underground tunnel which runs from the plant to the campus. Through the generosity of Bernard E, Sunny, Chairman of the Board of the Illinois Bell Telephone Company and member of the University Citizen ' s Com- mittee, a $400,000 g mnasium for the elementary school and high school divisions of the University is under way on Kenwood Avenue near the Midwav. This was a much needed addition for the old gymnasium had been cnncK ' nined as misafe. Pa(jc T-tventy-cifiht