Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1911 — CERTAIN OF LARGE STADIUM [ARTICLE]

CERTAIN OF LARGE STADIUM

Chicago University Students Expect Two Athletic Buildings as Result of Gift. Material athletic expansion at the University of Chicago may be one of the early results of John D. Rockefeller’s gift of $10,000,000 to the Maroon institution. Members of the department of physical culture admit that the long-wlshed-for stadium and a new gymnasium for the women students might follow the oil king’s generosity. The matter will be considered by the universityboard of trustees. - Under'the terms of Mr. Rockefeller’s donation the university authorities will be allowed to construct buildings for the use of any existing department, while all new departments are to be made possible by other gifts. Although the trustees assert that building expansion is not probable in the near future owing to the university’s wish to give the first Installments of the $10,000,000 sos endowment purposes, the ultimate erection of the needed buildings is assured. The officials stated that they would reach no decision ,on the building question until later. If the members of the board decide to take advantage of Mr. Rockefeller's permission, the Midway school will have the costliest and most complete department of athletics in the country. The physical culture experts believe that the additional buildings are necessities. President Harry Pratt Judson names the stadium and the' women's gymnasium as two of the four most needed features of the university’s material growth, the other two being a building for the use of the department of geology and geography and an astronomical observatory on the campus for the use of the students. * The location of the prospective star dlum has not been fixed., Coach Stagg la modest In expressing his views, but he has stated his wish that it be located on the ground owned by the university on the south side of t>e Midway Plaisance, between Ellis and Lexington avenues. If the university should remove one flat buildiing from this land a block and a half would ha available for the purpose.