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A THIRD PERIOD OF BUILDING 355 amount to be advanced by him, making the total two hundred and twenty thousand dollars, against a security which the Trustees had informed him might not realize more than ninety thousand. The contracts were thereupon authorized to be let for "two hundred and ten thousand dollars or less." The cornerstone was laid with much ceremony in connection with the June, 1903, Convocation, and the building was finished in May, 1904, and was dedicated at the same time as Emmons Elaine Hall. In the dedicatory exercises the Commercial Club of Chicago which founded the Manual Training School was officially represented by Mr. A. C. Bartlett, who made an address on behalf of the Club. Mr. Thomas M. Balliet, superintendent of schools in Springfield, Mass., spoke on "The Manual Training Movement." The High School building cost two hundred and twenty thousand dollars. It must have been peculiarly gratifying to the Trustees that the property of the Manual Training School, which was Mr. Rockefeller's security for his advances on the High School building, realized, when sold, so nearly the amount of these advances, that the final total of his contribution for it was a little less than twenty- four thousand dollars. In 1909 the building was named Belfield Hall in honor of Henry H. Belfield who was principal of the Chicago Manual Training School from its establishment in 1882 until it became the University High School in 1903, and who continued as a Dean of that School until his retirement in 1908, a period of twenty-six years. Belfield Hall was located on the Scammon block, north of Emmons Blaine Hall and extended across the middle of the block, fronting on both Kenwood and Kimbark avenues. The three-story structures on these avenues were connected by the one-story shops devoted to manual training, making a single building four hundred feet in length, along the entire south side of which ran a wide corridor giving convenient access to all the rooms of the first floor. The High School soon outgrew even this large building and com- pelled the transformation of a large adjacent apartment building on Kimbark Avenue into recitation rooms. When in October, 1902, the University adopted what was popularly known as the policy of segregation, in accordance with