The winter of 1912 was unusually cold, with temperatures dropping as low as thirty-four degrees below zero. The school suffered a record number of of severe cases of grippe – in one week fifty-four boys taxed the school’s facilities, recalling epidemics of the 1870s. That same winter a lower schooler, Edmund Armour, died of infantile paralysis. The Armour Infirmary, dedicated in 1914, was given to the school by Mr. George A. Armour as a memorial to his son. The building comprised a 65-bed hospital with two open wards, four semi-private and twenty-nine private rooms. The first new building of the Drury era thus came to be Armour, rising handsomely on a site a little apart from the daily life of the school but near enough to be reached by the familiar chapel bells.