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 354 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO the Kindergarten, the two latter being laboratory schools for the College. During the first nine months after its completion, however, it sheltered also the Manual Training School and the South Side Academy which came together October i, 1903, as the University High School. Thus for some months the work of all the departments of the School of Education was conducted in Emmons Elaine Hall. Here the University High School awaited the completion of its own building, the story of which follows. The plan of organization of the School of Education made the Chicago Manual Training School and the South Side Academy constituent parts of it and contemplated the union of these schools into the University High School. A building was needed therefore for the High School, and plans for it began to be made. The old question at once arose as to how the funds should be secured. This difficult question was answered by Mr. Rockefeller. The Manual Training School occupied a building of its own on the corner of Michigan Avenue and Twelfth Street. The purpose was to spend one hundred and forty thousand dollars for the proposed new building for the High School, and Mr. Rockefeller was asked to advance not to exceed one hundred and fifty thousand dollars for its erection to be repaid as soon as the Manual Training School property on Michigan Avenue and Twelfth Street should be sold. He was at the same time informed that while it was hoped the property would realize this amount, some of the Trustees doubted whether it would bring more than ninety thousand dollars. Mr. Rockefeller, with his accustomed generosity, agreed in May, 1902, to advance the amount requested, "to be repaid as far as possible from the sale" of the other property. In the June, 1903, Con- vocation statement President Harper made the following reference to this High School building, revealing an experience much too common with the University in its building operations: The cost was intended to be kept within the limit of one hundred and forty thousand dollars. It has been found necessary, however, in order to meet the demands of the work, and to make this building the most complete possible, to add about fifty per cent to this sum. To provide for this great increase in the cost of the building Mr. Rockefeller had consented to add seventy thousand dollars to the