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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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CHAPTER VI THE WAR AND ITS EFFECT ON CAMPUS DEVELOPMENT (1917-1920) D UE TO the disturbance of economic conditions which resulted from participation in the War, very little money was appropriated by the State Legislature for new University buildings during the five year period from 1917 to 1922. Minor building operations, of completing work already begun before the War, of constructing additions to existing buildings and erecting a few temporary structures, constituted the major activities in Campus expansion, and none of these affected, to any degree, the ultimate Campus Plan. During this temporary building depression, a study of the Campus Plan was continued by Professor White, the Supervising Architect, in preparation for renewed building activities which would necessarily be resumed as soon as the War could be brought to an end. The results of these studies were incorporated in the White Campus Plan, completed in August, 1919, which embodied all the essential and best features of previous plan studies and which was also a further development of certain basic principles established in past years. During the War period, however, the University was fully engaged in such wartime activities as were in demand by the State and Nation, and there was neither time nor money available for University expansion. Since the student enrollment was somewhat below normal during this period, there were sufficient buildings on the campus to house them. But the War was scarcely over when there were apparent indications of a heavy enrollment for the ensuing year. In September, 1919, true to expectations, over seven thousand students entered the University, which was approximately one thousand 79
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