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SCIENCE 



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general laboratory for advanced undergraduate 

 work, optical laboratories, a chemical labora- 

 tory, a large dark-room, two developing rooms, 

 and the large lecture hall with its adjoining 

 apparatus and preparation rooms. The first 

 floor is devoted to laboratories for research. 

 Two large constant temperature rooms and 

 the mechanician's room where all tools and 

 appliances necessary in the construction or 

 repair of physical apparatus are stored are 

 here. In the small room in the southeast 

 corner Michelson carried on the experiments 

 which have won for himself and American 

 scholarship the great honor of the Nobel 

 prize. 



As one passes north between Kent and 

 Eyerson he enters Hull Court surrounded 

 from left to right by the Physiology, An- 

 atomy, Zoology and Botany Buildings. In 

 the first Loeb and Stewart did their work; in 

 the second. Barker and Donaldson and Her- 

 riek; in the Zoology Building, Whitman and 

 his colleagues; and in the structure to the 

 right, Coulter and the other botany men make 

 use of the material from as near at hand as in 

 the pond beside their windows or from as far 

 away as Mexico, the Yukon and Java. Hull 

 Court is the center for the men preparing to 

 take up medicine. Here is found the eilort 

 to li-nk the work of the medical college to 

 that of the university in the way so forcefully 

 advocated by the retiring president of the as- 

 sociation. 



As one passes through Hull Court he will 

 do well to turn for a moment to the west and 

 look at least into the library of Hitchcock 

 Hall, one of the men's dormitories, before 

 passing eastward to Hutchinson Court and 

 the magnificent Tower Group of buildings. 

 The rich interior of the Leon Handel As- 

 sembly liall will become familiar to all at- 

 tending the general meetings of the associa- 

 tion. The Reynolds Club, reminding one 

 somewhat of St. John's at Oxford, is entered 

 from the cloister. On the first floor, north of 

 the elaborate Elizabethan stairway, is the 

 library; to the south, the billiard room. On 

 the second floor, in addition to several com- 

 mittee rooms, is a large reception room. On 

 the third floor, in addition to other committee 



rooms, is a small theater with trusses of open 

 timber and an interesting stage curtain repre- 

 senting a fete day in a medieval town. These 

 decorations, indeed, all the decorations in 

 the Tower Group, are by Mr. Frederick 

 Bai'tlett, of Chicago. The basement contains 

 bowling alleys and a barber shop. The Rey- 

 nolds Club serves that function in the Uni- 

 versity of Chicago which the Houston Club 

 serves at Pennsylvania and the Union at Har- 

 vard. Hutchinson Hall is a replica of Christ 

 Church Hall at Oxford. The main entrance 

 is through a large arch at the base of the 

 tower. The great room is forty feet wide, one 

 hundred and fifteen feet in length. About the 

 oak wainscoting with its series of shields of 

 British and American Universities rise deli- 

 cately traceried windows and, higher still, at 

 least fifty feet from the floor, are magnificent 

 trusses of open timber work from which hang 

 beautiful pendant lanterns of oak decorated 

 in red, blue and gold. At the west end of the 

 room hang the portraits of the founder of the 

 university, a picture by Eastman Johnson; 

 of President Harper, a portrait painted by 

 Gari Melchers; and the President of th& 

 Board of Trustees, Martin A. Ryerson, a 

 painting by Lawton S. Parker. On the south 

 wall are a small portrait of Silas Cobb and a 

 picture by Frederick Vinton of Professor 

 Galusha Anderson. At the east end of the 

 room hangs a picture of the first head of 

 the History Department, Professor von Holtz, 

 painted by Karl Marrof Miinich. On the 

 north wall is a likeness of the president of 

 the university, painted by Lawton Parker. 

 Leaving the tower one will desire to look inta 

 the Frank Dickinson Bartlett Gymnasium, 

 particularly at the mural decorations by the 

 brother of the young man for whom the build- 

 ing is named, the window presented in his 

 memory by Mr. William G. Hibbard of his 

 father's firm, and the large exercising floor of 

 the gymnasium. 



After one has surveyed the many buildings 

 of the university and at the gymnasium 

 stands thinking of the material resources of 

 the institution, of the fact that although most 

 of the $27,590,994 was the contribution of one 

 man, the citizens of a sister city, twenty-three 



