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16 History of Campus Plan state and recommended its demolition). In 1881, he reported the work progressing rapidly. Meanwhile, the new University Hall had been found unsuitable for a large chemical laboratory, and in December, 1876, the request for legislative appropriation bore an item of $20,000 for a new Chemical Building. Plans were drawn and bids received before September 11, 1877, the date of the first official consideration of the site. On this date, confronted by the problem of locating the new building, the trustees found themselves again without definite policy, and after considerable discussion rejected a proposal to set the building where Engineering Hall now stands and chose the site where the structure now known as the Entomology Building stands. Work on the building was commenced at once, and in April, 1878, it was dedicated as "one of the best and largest on the continent."
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