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LATER BUILDINGS OF THE FIRST QUARTER-CENTURY 433 1912 Mrs. Ricketts made a gift to the University as a memorial of her husband. At the June Convocation, 1912, President Judson said: This gift, amounting to five thousand dollars, is added to the endowment, the income only to be used and bestowed annually as a prize upon the student, who, in the Departments of Bacteriology and Pathology, produces the best piece of original research. The brilliant work of Professor Ricketts will make his name long remembered in the annals of medical science and in the history of the medical department of the University. With the growth of the University it was found in 1914 that the work of the department of Pathology and that of Hygiene and Bacteriology could no longer be accommodated in the Anatomy and Zoology buildings. The authorities therefore erected for them a separate Laboratory. The building was located on the west side of Ellis Avenue midway between Fifty-seventh and Fifty-eighth streets. It was temporary in construction, built of red brick, one story in height, but covered a large area, twenty thousand, six hundred and ten square feet and furnished facilities both adequate and admirable for the two departments. The cost of the building and equipment was about sixty thousand dollars and was borne by that most unusual resource of universities the accumulated and unassigned surplus. The memory of Professor Ricketts was honored in giving his name to the new Laboratory. At the entrance a bronze tablet bore the following inscription: IN MEMORY OF HOWARD TAYLOR RICKETTS 1871-1910 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF PATHOLOGY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO WHOSE CAREER MARKED BY ENTHUSIASM AND RARE ABILITY IN MEDICAL RESEARCH WAS CUT SHORT BY TYPHUS FEVER CONTRACTED DURING HIS INVESTIGATION OF THAT DISEASE IN THE CITY OF MEXICO