A proposition has recently been made to add an Institute of Technology to the already numerous departments of Chicago University. Although such an addition will cause a radical change in the plans of the University, it will very likely be made as the project is favored by President Harper and others. This addition has been made possible by the co-operation of the Chicago Electrical Club, the Western Society of Engineers and the Illinois Chapter of the American Institute of Architects who have promised to erect a laboratory and furnish it with apparatus, at an expense of over $250,000. This new department will require the addition to the faculty of the University of a head professor to each of the branches represented, beside a number of assistants.
The University has also received from Mr. Sidney A. Kent, brother of Mr. A. E. Kent, who gave the Kent Laboratory to Yale, a gift of $750,000 for a chemical laboratory which will be the largest and best equipped in the country. Professor Ranson, of Johns Hopkins University is in Chicago assisting in drawing the plans. The Parker Club of Chicago contemplates erecting an Electrical laboratory on the campus.
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