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SCIENCE 



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oldest department of tlie institution, is in 

 Evanston, about ten miles north of the busi- 

 ness center of Chicago. The campus extends 

 half a mile along the shores of Lake Michigan, 

 and is well worth seeing. The important 

 buildings on it are the main University Hall, 

 the Orrington Lunt Library, the Dearborn 

 Observatory, the School of Music, Science 

 Hall, the Garrett Biblical Institute and the 

 School of Oratory. Ground has been broken 

 for the buildings to house the new Department 

 of Engineering, from which much is ex- 

 pected. 



Northwestern University Building is a large 

 sis-story structure in the center of the busi- 

 ness district of Chicago, in which are located 

 the Schools of Law, Dentistry and Pharmacy. 

 These departments are remarkably well 

 equipped, and in reputation rank second to 

 none in the country. The library of the law 

 school is worth a visit, not only because of its 

 collections of books, but also on account of 

 the unique construction. 



The Medical School is located on Dear- 

 born street between 24th and 25th, in the 

 vicinity of the important hospitals, Mercy and 

 Wesley. The medical school is well known 

 throughout the country on account of the 

 position it took years ago on the question of 

 graded medical instruction, and required 

 laboratory work, and with the general ad- 

 vance has maintained its relative rank. This 

 department is easily reached by the state 

 street cars from down town. 



THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 

 To American men of science the University 

 of Berlin, the University of Leipzig, or the 

 University of Munich connotes no collection 

 of buildings but the published writings of 

 men who in the laboratories of these institu- 

 tions have achieved their results. To Euro- 

 peans the name of the University of Chicago 

 suggests, not high-raised battlements and 

 towers, but the men who there carry on their 

 scientific work. Those attending the exer- 

 cises of convocation week, knowing the uni- 

 versity as do the Europeans, will be interested 

 also in observing the habitat of these men 

 whose work they know. 



As one stands at the west end of the Mid- 

 way Plaisance and looks eastward almost a 

 mile he sees to the north and the south of 

 this beautiful thoroughfare the campus of 

 the university; north, there confronts him 

 the earliest building, Cobb Hall and the 

 dormitories straggling to the south of it. 

 Cobb is a recitation building housing the 

 classical departmental libraries and the library 

 of the modern language group, as well as most 

 of the administrative oiEces and an informa- 

 tion office. East of Cobb is Haskell Oriental 

 Museum, on the top floor of which there is 

 the library of the Divinity School; on the 

 second floor, some valuable Oriental collec- 

 tions, including those in Biblical history. 

 Comparative Eeligion, Assyrian and Egyptian 

 life, and the work of the Oriental Explora- 

 tion; on the first floor, the faculty room and 

 the office of the president. As one leaves the 

 east door of Haskell he gazes upon the tall 

 windows of the Law Building, a structure 

 modeled somewhat on the King's College 

 Chapel at Cambridge, though the mitre-like 

 towers are somewhat shortened and the but- 

 tresses lack the graceful English finials. The 

 first floor of the Law Building is given over to 

 large lecture rooms, to be used for many of 

 the section meetings. Up the massive stair- 

 way one goes to the great reading room, a 

 hall with high timbered ceiling, 160 feet long 

 and 50 feet wide. South of the Law Build- 

 ing and Haskell will be erected the William 

 Eainey Harper Memorial Library, extending 

 with its two wings from the men's halls on 

 the west to the women's halls on the east. 

 Those interested in the housing of women in 

 the university will do well to call for a mo- 

 ment at Nancy Foster Hall, the most south- 

 erly of the four women's halls, before passing 

 north of the women's quadrangle to Walker 

 Museum. As one stands in front of Walker 

 he can see immediately to the east the Quad- 

 rangle Club at the corner of Fifty-eighth 

 and Lexington, and just south of it a tem- 

 porary recitation building for women called 

 Lexington Hall wherein luncheon will be 

 served during the convocation. Two blocks to 

 the east are the structures of the School of 

 Education, including the University High 



