Part IV: The Illustrated "Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Chapters 27 thru 32.  

The ZMM Narrator Continues Phaedrus’s Story At The University of Chicago.

… “I said the assistant chairman for the Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods was shocked. What he was so shocked about was that Phædrus didn’t know he was at the locus of what is probably the most famous academic controversy of the century, what a California university president described as the last attempt in history to change the course of an entire university. .. Phædrus’ reading turned up a brief history of that famous revolt against empirical education that had taken place in the early thirties. “[At U. Chicago] “The Committee on Analysis of Ideas and Study of Methods was a vestige of that attempt.” (U. Chicago Cont. Next)
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

..A) After You Click Blue Link Below => A Google Satellite View Will Come Up Showing U. Chicago, And The Surrounding City, Plus Showing The Adjacent “Museum of Science and Industry” This Science & Industry Museum happens to be located on part of The Old Grounds of the 1893 Chicago Worlds’ Fair, at the lakefront, along Lake Michigan, as is explained this => …
..NOW … This Satellite Map View Identifies Many Buildings Mentioned In My Photos => .For Example, You Will Be Able To See Locations of U. Chicago’s => a) Cobb Lecture Hall, b) Hospital, c) Bookstore, d) Main Quadrangle, e) Midway Plaisance, which is a Mile Long Mall, along the South Side of the U. C. Campus, and was part of the 1893 Chicago Exposition World’s Fair (Read More at Plaisance & Neighborhoods Below). …. RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB” => After Satellite Map View Comes Up, ClickOn The Plus&Minus To Zoom. You Can “Click&Drag” Map In Any Direction, to See More Off Your Screen Edges.

..B) A University of Chicago Page Will Come Up Showing Map of U. Chicago Campus. . At Left of Map, You Can Click-On LIST, To IDENTIFY MANY U. CHICAGO BUILDINGS Mentioned In Photos In This Album. For Example: Cobb Hall, The University’s Hospital, and University Bookstore …. RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT NEW TAB => After UC Campus Map View Comes Up, ClickOn The Plus&Minus To Zoom. You Can Click&Drag Map In Any Direction, to See More Off Your Screen Edges.
…ALSO Notice SEARCH Box.


..C) .. When “The University of Chicago Was Originally Being Constructed”, Adjacent to The South & East Was “The 1893 World's Fair: Columbian Exposition”. This was also known as the “Chicago World's Fair”.
… Dedicated in October in 1892, this World's Fair held in Chicago, was to celebrate the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus' arrival in the New World in 1492.
…The Exposition was located in Jackson Park and on The Midway Plaisance, on 630 acres (2.5 km2) in the neighborhoods of South Shore, Jackson Park Highlands, Hyde Park, and Woodlawn. (The Above Are Excerpts From Wikipedia.)
….More Wikipedia Historical Information, AND ~THIRTY REALLY GREAT PHOTOS of the 1892 Fair. => RIGHT CLICK AND SELECT “NEW TAB” => AFTER The Wikipedia Page Comes-Up, click on any of the Photos, to see Very Large Photos, in a Special Photo Viewer. In this Photo Viewer, you can click on the > at right, to Advance Next. .

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(Photo = 100- 0086 ..... ZMM Page = 308 ..... WayPt = -034m 0590 ft)


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