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

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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

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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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m ) 1929 CAP ino couin Q Jones Chemical Lai;ouatory An important buildinii to he started this year is the liernard A. F.ckhart Hall which will house the Department of Mathematics, and part of the work in Physics, and the Department of Astronomy. The building will be erected adjoining Ryerson Physical Laboratory on the east, extending east to University Avenue and turning north to a point fifteen feet south of Mandel Hall. Pro- vision will be made for a passage way into Hutchinson Court from University Avenue just south of Mandel Hall and also a similar passage at the west end of the building from the main quadrangle. The building will be connected by a corridor to Ryerson Physical Laboratory at the basement and the second floor. The building wil l cost over $500,000 and is made possible through the generous gift of B. A. Eckhart, a prominent Chicago lumber man. It will provide for expansion in the research work of three departments in which the University has been declared, by all, to be pre-eminent. The older Ryerson Hall has been the scene of work for three Americans who have won the Nobel Prize in Physics ; Professors A. A. Michelson and A. H. Compton, who are still working in its laboratories, and Professor Millikan, now of the California Institute of Tech- nology. The new Hall will provide facilities for the further encouragement of work of such a sterling quality. Ryerson Phj-sical Laboratory will be reno- vated and the old equipment replaced by new. Plans are still being made for the greatest project that the L niversity has announced in many years, those for the new dormitories. The total cost of the dormitory unit will be $5,000,000. Plans are now completed for a $3,000,000 section. The buildings will be erected on the south side of the Midway on ground already owned by the University. The new dormitories will not only solve the housing problem, but will make it possible to provide for a large portion of the student body those stimulating associations and influences outside of regular classroom life. There will be a recreation center within the building!?. Paiic Turiitynine n