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 FURTHER EXPANSION 339 for that splendid step in advance the plan of retiring allowances for the men who spend their lives in the University's service. And finally it made provision for what promises to be the monumental building of the entire University group the Chapel. The Chapel was not built during the period under review, but for some time before that period closed studies for it were being made and plans considered. The utmost possible pains were being taken to make it the crowning glory of the University architecture, as expressed by the donor "the central and dominant feature of the University group." This concludes the story of the various steps in expansion taken during the first quarter-century of the history of the Uni- versity. As grouped in this narrative there were seventeen of them, all of them important, some of them of far-reaching significance in their relation to the University's future. In an advance move- ment unparalleled in educational annals, they developed the pro- posed college of 1890 into the University of 1916. Every year was a year of marked progress. Almost every year witnessed a new and long step in advance in that well-nigh miraculous development which in this brief period placed the University in the front rank of the world's institutions of learning.