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Caption: Dedication - Memorial Stadium Drive Book #2
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- v„\V «l "GREEK GLORY ON THE PRAlPvlEi'SAYS PRESIDENT KIN LEY " T ^ E R H A P S my greatest interest in the Stadium is its cultural effect. J^ "Our Stadium will bring a touch of Greek glory to the prairie. "Young men and women spending four years of their lives in the vicinity of such an edifice cannot help absorbing some of its lofty inspiration. "A still more practical cultural development will come from the Greek theater, seating 10,000 persons, which will stand in the honor court. It will be a setting for outdoor plays, pageants, May fetes and music festivals enriching the imagination of the participants and the beholders. 'The setting, that of an old Italian garden, with the proscenium arch at one end, with the colonnades, archways and shining towers of the entrance, will bring an appreciation of old-world beauties, of fine and eternal traditions, which, blended with the ruggedness and shrewd intelligence of our people, will help us to realize the greatness which is "The Greek theater will be a setting for outdoor plays, pageants. May fetes and music festivals" - . . , ,, " LOVE THE PAST BECAUSE 1 SEE THE 1 FUTU RE," SAYS PRESIDENT- EM ERITUS JAMES ^ H E R E is a room on the third floor of the Administration building A which is reserved for Dr. Edmund Janes James, President-Emeritus. After having been in various parts of the United States in order to recover the health which he lost in service to his University and his country, he came back for a while to Urbana. It was in this office, at his old desk with long shelves full of books—books of literature, statistical books, books of history and books dealing in many ways with the adventures of mankind; all books very dear to the heart of Dr. James—he leaned back in his old swivel chair and talked about the subject which is nearest to his heart, the proposed memorial Stadium and recreation field. As he sat there, straight and proud, it was very easy to picture him again in his military uniform, on horseback, cantering through the streets of Urbana and Champaign, saluting the many students and faculty men who loved him. It was easy to see him again in that big office of the President, genial and yet rigorous, crisp but sympathetic, understanding always the little things and never losing his grip on the big things, both of today and tomorrow. "I have been the president of an adolescent university which is growing rapidly into maturity," he said. "I have also been and am a father. our Dirtnngnt.
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