The University of Chicago in 1921 . n 1916-17 nearly five and ahalf million dollars. Of this amount fourteenhundred thousand dollars were to be spent in newbuildings. The entry of the United States intothe Great War necessarily postponed the erectionof these buildings, and consequently the organiza-tion of the Medical School. As building condi-tions improve, however, the University will takeup the erection of these buildings and the exe-cution of this whole medical program. The larger of the proposed medical buildingswill be that comprising the Albert Merritt BillingsHospital, for which the Bi
The University of Chicago in 1921 . n 1916-17 nearly five and ahalf million dollars. Of this amount fourteenhundred thousand dollars were to be spent in newbuildings. The entry of the United States intothe Great War necessarily postponed the erectionof these buildings, and consequently the organiza-tion of the Medical School. As building condi-tions improve, however, the University will takeup the erection of these buildings and the exe-cution of this whole medical program. The larger of the proposed medical buildingswill be that comprising the Albert Merritt BillingsHospital, for which the Billings family has pro-vided one million dollars, and the Max EpsteinDispensary, for which Mr. and Mrs. Epsteingave one hundred thousand dollars. Plans forthis structure are now being completed by Cool-idge and Hodgdon. The building will be locatedon the south side of the Midway Plaisance. Itwill include a hospital with two hundred andfifty beds, a dispensary, laboratories for Pathologyand Bacteriology, and a library to which Dr. 16. THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Frank Billings has contributed his own medicalcollection. While the training of candidates for the degreeof at the University will be carried on inpart in the existing biological laboratories and inpart in this great new building, for graduate workfor medical practitioners at Rush and the Presby-terian Hospital provision will be made in theRawson Laboratory for which three hundredthousand dollars have been provided by Mr. andMrs. Frederick H. Rawson. The medical building program, large as it is,is only a part of the University building program,the execution of which has thus far been preventedby the war and the industrial conditions thatfollowed it. In 1918 Mr. Andrew MacLeish, theVice-President of the Board of Trustees, gave theUniversity one hundred thousand dollars to beused for the erection of a building, preferably foradministration. The gifts already described ofthree hundred thousand dollars for the TheologyBuil
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