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 326 A mSTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO had been divided. Nevertheless this expansion had multiplied the expenditures for the biological sciences by three in less than three years. The great contribution of Miss Culver provided in part for these increases and fully justified them. The use made of a por- tion of that contribution opened the way for further enlargement. It will be recalled that when Professor Whitman accepted the headship of Biology it was understood that a laboratory was to be provided for the department. Instead of one building, four labora- tories were now erected and equipped. This large provision of buildings and equipment naturally opened the way for all that followed. One new department, Paleontology, was established almost immediately, and between 1895 and 1901 the number of instructors in the biological departments increased from sixteen to thirty-four. A very extensive equipment having been provided, the adequate manning of the departments was natural. Skeleton departments in four great buildings would have been an absurdity. In the end, the munificence of Mr. Rockefeller made this step only a natural part of an orderly and triumphant progress. And now came a very great step in advance. In 1896 the Chicago Manual Training School was put into the hands of the University. This school had been established by the Commercial Club of Chicago in 1882. It was located on the corner of Twelfth Street and Michigan Boulevard, where it had been conducted most successfully by its head, Dr. H. H. Belfield. It had an endowment fund of fifty thousand dollars given by John Crerar, founder of the Crerar Library, a large but poor building, and a valuable site, the property being finally sold for about two hundred thousand dollars. Soon after Professor John Dewey was made head of the Department of Philosophy (1894), the Department of Pedagogy (later Education) was organized, and Mr. Dewey was made its head also. As a laboratory for the department the University Elementary School was started and attracted much favorable attention. In it Mr. Dewey's theories of elementary education were worked out with much success. In the early nineties E. O. Sissoon, a graduate student in the Uni- versity, established the South Side Academy in proximity to the University. The school had a successful history, as far as the