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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1912
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156 UNIVERSITY OF I L L I N O I S . [June 22 Major Morse protested against the suggestion that this money be put into a building planned in part for the uses of another department; and also against the suggestion that this money be combined with that appropriated for another building, for the erection of a structure adapted to the uses of both the military and another department. He insisted that this' money should be expended on ah armory designed entirely with reference to the needs of the work in military science; not that this building might not be usable for other purposes, but that it should not be planned for or assigned to any other department. The suggestion that the armory should be combined with a stock judging pavilion or with a building for the use of the Department of Athletics, he thought was most unwise; an attempt to make such a combination would result in a building not fit for either purpose. The president introduced Major Morse, who' briefly reaffirmed the position stated in his letter. Dr. C. G-. Hopkins, Professor of Agronomy, who was present, stated, in rej)ly to a question from President Abbott, that the plan of building a combined armory and stock judging pavilion had not been considered by the faculty of the College of Agriculture. Professor James M. White, supervising architect, presented the following recommendation in regard to the location of the new armory: The distance from the University property line adjoining Professor Morgan Brooks's lot to a line which is a continuation of the south horticultural fence is 883.2 feet. I recommend that the armory be located on the east side of Mathews avenue, facing west, with the main mass of the building about 100 feet back from Mathews avenue, and with the center building 441.6 feet south of the University property line adjoining Professor Morgan Brooks's property, ' Professor White was then heard at length upon the subject of the location, size and construction of the new armory % A general discussion of the plans of campus development, followed. The president read letters from Dr. Eugene Davenport, Dean of the College of Agriculture, protesting against any location of buildings which would interfere with the permanent experimental plots already established by the Agriculture Experiment Station, and urging t h a t a policy he adopted looking toward the purchase of more land for additional buildings. President James requested t h a t Professor Hopkins and Professor Blair of the College of Agriculture be heard on this subject. Professor Hopkins and Professor Blair explained in full the arguments for the position stated in Dean Davenport's letter. Further discussion followed, in which Mr. W. Carbys Zimmerman, State Architect, who was present, participated. A t this point Mr. Meeker withdrew. SCHOOL OF COMMERCE B U I L D I N G — L O C A T I O N AND P L A N S . The subject of the plan and location of the School of Commerce building, for which the Forty-seventy General Assembly appropriated one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, was then taken up* The president presented first the recommendation of the supervising architect, as follows:
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