New-York tribune., 1903-03-15
SMALL, BUT ACTIVE.
Lake Forest College Is Nop attract
ing Considerable 4ttention.

That the small college has powerful friends is
strfkingly demonstrated every and then. in
spite Of the vast amount OF stir which the big uni
versities are constantly making in the world. Not
long ago General Thomas H Hubbard Of this city.
gave q magnificent library building to Bowdoin and
now Lake Forest College. at Lake Forest, Ill. has
been enriched by the gift of a handsome building
from the Silent Man of Wall Street." James
Henry Smith The building will be known as
Smith Hall. but its official is the George
H Smith Hall. for Mr.. Smiths uncle from
whom he inherited his fortune. The building
was erected after plans made by Frost & Granger.
OF Chicago whose object was to produce a struct-
which should be cheerful comfortable and
homelike rather than picturesque and ornamental
The building Is nearly two hundred feet long
two stories high, with high basement and scien-
tihc laboratory. 1t contains thirteen recitation
rooms. a large playroom and at one end there is
q fine music hall. with seating capacity for four
hundred. This room has been aside for concerts
lectures and entertainments The cost of the build
ing was about sS5 0N.
The new building is a part Of Ferry Hall. which
is a school for young women. The school is thus
described by the president Of the institution. the
Rev. DR. Richard D. Harlan:
The purpose of the school is to provide, for the
studies and Accomplishments which toward
making women Of force and usefulnesf an aRd Tn'cs
sough, to surround this training with the freedoIn
so far n as this is POSSIBLE in large Company repre-
senting all temperaments.
Lake Forest College is also attracting favorable
notice Just now from the literary world. owing to
the fact that 1t has received a large endowment
FOR prize q library and a lectureshp. which II
IS believed will attract much attention IN the
United States as the famous hampton and Ginord
lectures have done in Great Britain.
In lsg. the late William Bross. of Chicago. Lieu
tenant Governor Of Illinois in 1860. desiring to
make some memorial Of his son. Nathamel Bross
who had died in 1856. entered into an agreement
with the Trustees of Lake Forest University.
III SfarYp ed
tees very large sum of money. the income OF
which was TO accumulate in perpetuity tor sue
cessve periods OF ten years, at compound interest
the following decade. for the purpose OF stmulat-
Ing the production OF the best books or treatises
-on the connection relation and mutual oearins
If any practcal science. the history OF ou-
race or the facts in any department OF kno"ieoee'
uf.h and 11ron the Christian religion
In his deed OF gift the founder had in view the
religion Of the Bible composed of the Olo ana Ne"
Tesrame1ts OF our Lord and Saviour Jesus Chrlst.
commonly received in the Presbyterian anu "lhe'
evaneelical churches His object was TO cali OUT
the hest efforts the highest talent and the rlpest
scholarship the world TO illustrate from scieico
or anv department Of knowledge. ana TO demon
sr-s-e the divine origin and the authority OF 1he
C~nris,ian Scriptures. and further. TO show no"
ho,h science and revelation coincide. ano 10 prove
The .x5s.eoce the providence. OF any or all OF the
o---frrtes Of the Only living and true God. infinite
,,.-,.i and uDchangeable in His being, wisdom,
mower holiness justice goodness and truth
The scope Of the deed of gift is thus so colnpre-
pe,s;,-e that any phase of science, or OF human
history or OF modern life that may thro" -is"'