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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS

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Committee have personally inspected buildings and facilities classed by their occupants as obsolete or inadequate. T h e only exception to this is Item 28, South Wing, W o m a n ' s Gymnasium, which was inadvertently overlooked both as to the conference and the inspection of present facilities. T h e question might well be raised concerning the reason for the difference in viewpoint of the Committee as evidenced by the recommendation for the biennium 1937-1939 in this report compared with its recommendation for the same biennium in its reports to the Council May 29, 1936, and June 26, 1936. One might wonder also why the Committee's recommendation at this time does not coincide more closely than it does with the suggestion of the Council on May 29, 1936, with which a minority of the Committee concurred. T h e proposal of the Committee at this time differs from the Council suggestion in these respects: Addition to Hospital $ 300 000 Abattoir and Meat Laboratory 125 000 Remodeling Old Agriculture Building for Chemistry 250 000 Purchase of Land ( U r b a n a ) 100 000 Agricultural Laboratory (increase from $600 000 to $750 000) 150 000 Library Addition amount increased 25 000 Equipment for Medical and Dental Building (increase from $225 000 to $300 000) 75 000

v J Less Decrease in Biology Lab. Unit $100 000 Studies on plans (provided elsewhere) 35 000 Principal and Interest on Federal Loan 172 000 307 000 Net increase $ 718 000 Present total $2 675 OOO F o r m e r total 1 957 000 Net increase $ 718 000 These additions seemed warranted following a more extended study into the future, and, to some extent, as a result of unexpected increase in enrollment this fall. Of course, the estimated costs of the several projects above, and, in fact, in the whole report, are very unscientifically derived. They are intended only as general guides in discussion of financial aspects. T h e plan for Biennium I (1937-1939) is based on the following analysis and appraisal of conditions and requirements: 1. T h e Department of Chemistry needs relief as soon as possible. AH seem to be agreed that Chemistry should expand southward from its present quarters, which it cannot do until the occupants of Old Agriculture Building have a place to which they can go. T h e proposed Agricultural Laboratories building is intended to supply this and also to afford relief from some very crowded, poorly ventilated and poorly adapted space now occupied by Animal Nutrition, Dairy Bacteriology, and Dairy Chemistry. Because of the large increase in registration this fall, Chemistry cannot wait until September, 1940 or 1041, as it would be required to do if it were to await the rehabilitation of the Old Agriculture Building or the erection of a new building on that site. Therefore, provision is made in the recommendations herein to begin as soon as funds are available after July 1, 1937, to build a small section of what will later be a permanent part of the Chemistry Building on the Old Agriculture site; and also to remodel that part of Old Agriculture now adjoining Chemistry A n n e x immediately to the south. This latter (remodeling feature) cannot begin until the Meat Laboratory now located therein is removed to other quarters. Necessity for removal of the Meat Laboratory raises the question immediately of its juxtaposition to the Abattoir which has been contemplated for a number of years, and which is one of the urgent needs of the College of Agri-

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