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jumble of cracked concrete paths between old buildings that inspired our former chancellor to describe the area as "a decrepit factory town left behind in the wake of the Industrial Revolution.** In its place we have an arrangement of buildings pleasing to the eye and true to a master plan for the University, a plan produced through decades of careful thought by talented visionaries. Finally, the location of the Grainger Library on the north campus is an important statement for our research university. Heretofore, this portion of the campus has been considered (somewhat erroneously) terra incognita for those not engaged in advanced research. Placement of the library a block north of Green Street moves the population center of our college one block north. The library now defines the center of the engineering campus. It becomes ground common to the Nobel prizewinner and the naive freshman. Chances are that they enter its doors equally confused over some technical problem—albeit at a somewhat different level of intellectual depth. Put differently, this is where research and teaching meet and enrich each other If this library works as it should, no government auditor will ever be able to tell what fraction of our'magnificent structure \s devoted to teaching and what fraction to research. They will coexist in splendid surroundings that can only spur us on to an even better "keeping of the books" and "writing of the books."

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