. The street railway review . rs, lawn, terminating at the cast in Jackson Park and at the west inWasliington Park, both of them almost within a stones throw ofthe University. Cobb building is the gift of Mr. S. B. Cobb, for many yearspresident of the Chicago City Ry., and the Ycrkes Observatory,which witli its building and equipments (located at Lake Geneva,but belonging to the University) and costing $1,000,000, was thegift of Mr. Charles T. Yerkes. Five other buildings and hallson the campus bear the names of persons who have been largelyinterested in Chicago surface lines, showing the inte
. The street railway review . rs, lawn, terminating at the cast in Jackson Park and at the west inWasliington Park, both of them almost within a stones throw ofthe University. Cobb building is the gift of Mr. S. B. Cobb, for many yearspresident of the Chicago City Ry., and the Ycrkes Observatory,which witli its building and equipments (located at Lake Geneva,but belonging to the University) and costing $1,000,000, was thegift of Mr. Charles T. Yerkes. Five other buildings and hallson the campus bear the names of persons who have been largelyinterested in Chicago surface lines, showing the interest streetrailway people have taken in the institution. The donations ofMr. Rockefeller, however. e<iual those of all others combined. Armour Institute of Technology. Tlie .Armour Institute of Technology dates back only to 189,?, when it was first opened to students. For several yearspreviously, however. Mr. .Vrmour had been planning for an insti-tution of its character. Mr. \rmour is believed to have gained his. UNIVERSITY OF CHICA(;0-SOME OF THE BUILDINGS. Marshall Field. Charles T. Yerkes and others, added to its perma-nency by their generous subscriptions. The total endowmentis in excess of $7,000,000. Sept. 10, 1890, the university was in-corporated and at the first meeting of the board of trustees Rainey Harper, of Yale, was elected president, enteringon his duties July i. i8gi. Before any particular building was projected, however, a generalplan was prepared of the entire group, as it would appear afterall the buildings should be erected, and in consequence the erec-tion of the first building was not commenced until Nov. 26, recitation buildings, laboratories, chapel, museum, gymnasium,library—the public buildings of the institution—are the centralfigures of this plan, while the dormitories are arranged in quad-rangles on the four corners. The material used in constructionfor the entire group is blue Bedford stone. Oct. I, 1892, th
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