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of Trustees, the chairman of the Trusters' Committee on Buildings and Grounds, the members of the Alumni Executive Committee, those of the Memorial Committee and Professors Burrill and White. After some unavoidable delays this Conference wan called by Mr. Bullard, now President of the Alumni Association, for May 2, 1914, at the University, to discuss the whole matter and to decide if possible upon some definite form of memorial structure. When the meeting was called to order there were present the following1 named delegates: President James President W. L. Abbott and Mr. 0. W. Hoit of the Board of Trustees Professors Burrill, Baker, and White of the Faculty, and President Bullard and Messrs. J. E. Armstrong, H. M. Dunlap, F. L. Hatch and Peter Junkersfeld of the Alumni Association. Those absent were: Professor Talbot, Messrs. EL J. Burt, J. N. Chester, E. G. Graham, J. C. Llewellyn, J. A. Ockerson and Lorado Taft.

CONFERENCE AND COMMITTEE ACTION

After full discussion during which many suggestions were made, often widely different in character, unanimous agreement was at length reached and all voted for the following resolution: "Resolved, that the memorial to be erected to Dr. Gregory on the University campus be a Gregory Memorial Building and Art Collection, that $150,000 be raised for the purpose, and-that the University Trustees be requested to assign a site for the building south of Lincoln Hall, west of the Auditorium and facing the site chosen for the new Library building.'7 Later, on the same day, the recommendation of the Conference was approved by the memorial committee and Dr. T. J. Burrill was appointed director of a campaign with Messrs. Bullard, Baker and Dunlap as a subcommittee, to carry the proposition into effect. It was a great step forward to gain this unanimous agreement on the part of the committee and the designation so clearly marked of the kind and cost of a memorial. The site selected is for one of the major campus buildings, near the center of things as the campus develops.

EXPLANATIONS

By the help of the accompanying plates the location and surroundings can be easily made out. Plate I. shows, on a small scale, the arrangements of the present buildings and wonderful suggestions for future ones. Along the west side south of Green street occur in order: the Library Building (with a new extension on the south), the Commerce Building (only the east half now up), the Womans* Building, Lincoln Hall (east half now existing), and the proposed Gregory Memorial Building, with the Auditorium directly east, across Burrill avenue. Facing this Memorial building on the south is the proposed new library

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