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 498 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Object Amount Buildings and Equipment and Land Continued Drinking Water System ...................... $32,500.00 Books ..................................... 163,500.05 Kent Laboratory Alterations ................. 14,060.00 Julius Rosenwald Hall ........................ 49,000.00 Classics Building ............................ 27,000. oo Proposed Chapel ............................ 800,000.00 General Purposes .............................................. $4,877,155. 12 George Dana Boardman Lectures ............. 1,000.00 Medical Work .............................. 50,000. oo Oriental Explorations ........................ 50,000.00 St. Louis Exposition Exhibit ................. 5,000. oo Decennial Publications ....................... 21,000.00 Rewiring Mandel Hall ....................... 2,000. oo Babcock Fire Extinguishers ................... 1,000.00 Incidentals ................................. 3,000. oo Yerkes Observatory Repairs .................. 4,000.00 Oriental Investigation ........................ 21,555 55 Additional Cataloguing ..................... 30,000. oo Bionomics .................................. 2,500.00 Retiring Allowances ......................... 7,600.00 Working Capital and Interest ................ 203,322. 22 Current Expenses ........................... 4,475,177-35 Total Gifts Received ................................... 30,701,827. 05 NOTE. Gifts Received .......................... 30,701,827.05 Balance still to be paid on Gift of December 13, i9 j o ............................. 4,000,548.23 Grand Total of Gifts ................. $34,702,375. 28 A SYSTEM OF RETIRING ALLOWANCES AND ALLOWANCES FOR WIDOWS (Adopted by the Board of Trustees February 13, 1912} (STATUTE) 17. RETIRING ALLOWANCES i. Any person in the service of the University and sixty-five years of age who holds the position of President of the University, Director or Associate Director of the University Libraries, or University Examiner, and who has been for a period of fifteen years in the service of the University, in a rank not lower than Assistant Professor; and any person in the service of the University and sixty-five years of age, who has been, for a period of fifteen years in a rank not lower than Assistant Professor, a member of the teaching staff of the Graduate Schools of Arts, Literature, and Science, the Graduate