5()<) REPOET OF NATIONAL MUSEUM, 15H)3, 



The yearly expenses of iriainteiiance at the University of Chicago 

 are officially stated at $287 for a minimum and $655 as a liberal allow- 

 ance, $396 as an average for thiity-six weeks' work. The honorarium 

 for tuition is always the same, $120, the price for rent and care of room 

 varies from $42 to $225, the board from $100 to $225, laundry from 

 $15 to $85, text-books and stationery from $10 to $50. Still one may 

 live more cheaply, for a room near the university may be had for $1 a 

 week, including heating and lighting, or with board for $4.50, and 

 board alone in student clubs for $2.75 to $8.50 a week. 



I may also mention that the house of the president of the university 

 stands near the south westei-n corner of the grounds, therefore near the 

 dormitory for women (extreme right of Plate 33). The president holds 

 regular receptions, whereby the social life of the university is kept up. 



As appears from the plan of the buildings of the university grounds 

 and their vicinity, which is attached to the annual register, it was the 

 intention to line the four ])locks originally assigned to the university 

 somewhat symmetrically with buildings. 



In the middle transverse zone is the universit}^ hall and library, '^ 

 together with the chapel; at the four corners are the dormitories, with 

 large rectangular lawns in front of them; in the middle longitudinal 

 zone are variously shaped large, ornamental plots; and the remaining 

 portions are more or less symmetrically tilled with buildings of which 

 there were 52 planned in all. Besides some provisional structures and 

 the o])servatory at Lake Geneva, 17 of these have ))een completed, 

 namel}', 2 museums, 6 natural history institutes, 1 lecture hall, 8 dor- 

 mitories; 21 are contemplated or in course of construction, 3 for 

 modern, 2 for ancient languages, 1 for geology, 1 additional museum, 

 2 additional lecture halls, 7 more dormitories {one in course of con- 

 struction), a hall with a library, a dining hall (building), the chapel, the 

 gymnasium (building), the power house (building), and finally 11 whose 

 special purposes have not yet been determined. In this original 

 scheme of buildings, however, there are not included the two northern 

 blocks, which, in 1899, Mr. Marshall Field, together with Mr. J. D. 

 Rockefeller, presented to the university at a cost of $830,000. But 

 after the Rush Medical College,^ that is to say, the medical school, 

 with nearly 1,000 students, which up to this time, situated in West 

 Chicago, has been oidy externally associated, has begun to settle down 

 with the university,'" and, further, after the Pedagogical Institute of 

 Chicago, funded with $2,000,000, has been transferred to the univer- 

 sity,*^ a rapid advance will probably be made in the erection of addi- 



« This plan has since been abandoned. 



f> According to Science, May 3, 1901, p. 720. 



<^ Compare also the President's Report 1898-99, p. xix. 



(I Science, March 3 and 15, 1901, pp. 400 and 440. 



