,^04 REPORT OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 1903. 



ph3'sical culture and athletics is a widely embracing one, correspond- 

 ing- to the g-reat part which athletic games play in American univer- 

 sities, too great, as appears to me," in comparison with the too slight 

 part given to it in Germany. In spite of the consideral)le receipts of 

 the division, amounting to about $35,000, of which about $30,000 

 alone were derived from admission fees to the football games, paid 

 by the public, there was in 1898-99 a deficit of $250. 



POWER nousK. 



A central power house for heating and for electrical supply was 

 erected as long ago as 1892 alongside the universit}^ grounds, separated 

 from them by a street. It is 131 by 138 feet in size. The engines are 

 fed by coal oil jjrovided by J. D. Rockefeller, the founder and 

 chief supporter of the university. The present house is, however, no 

 longer sufficient, and there has been begun the construction of a new 

 larger centi-al power house for electricity, heating, and water, from 

 which subterranean conduits will l)e led to all the buildings of the uni- 

 versity. It will be 300 feet long and 50 feet wide at the ground level, 

 with a chimney stack 115 feet high, and will include a workshop for 

 repairs. It will contain, among other things, an electric crane, for 

 handling of coal and the like, that can be moved along the entire 

 building.^ 



DORMITORIES. 



The outer fronts of the four corners of the four southern blocks of 

 the university groimds, taken as a whole, are devoted to dormitories. 

 Here they stand, isolated, with great lawns that serve as plaj^grounds, 

 the quadrangles in front planted with trees and decorated with beds of 

 flowers. Only one portion is now built. There are four such quad- 

 rangles — one for women and one for graduate students, and two for 

 the undergraduates. The row of houses in fig. 79 represents some of 

 the dormitories for male students. On the right hand (near the Cobb 

 Lecture Hall, fig. 78) is the north hall, especially for graduate stu- 

 dents, and therefore formerl}" called the graduate dormitory . This 

 row of houses corresponds to those seen at the left in Plate 32. Up to 

 the present time there have been established four dormitories for men 

 and four for women, the former being able to accommodate 230, the 

 latter 220 students, a total of 1-56. The number of students in the 

 university in the 3'ear 1899-1900 was 1,734 men and 1,149 women, a 



«See also A. Bates: The Negative Side of Modern Athletics, Forum, May, 1901, 

 pp. 287-297. In the summer of 1900 one of the track teams of Chicago University 

 went to Europe in order to take jiart in the international contests which were held 

 in London by the English and in Paris by the French. 



''The new power house is now ready (1903). 



