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Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois

cated with reference to the future growth of the University, in order that it might be readily accessible from all parts of the campus. It became necessary, therefore, to fix with some degree of definiteness upon a campus plan which should provide adequately for future enlargement. The result of much study and several conferences by Messrs. C. H. Blackall, Olmsted Brothers, and J. M White, and later L Mr. Burnham and Mr. Zimmerman, the state architect, was a decision to place the Auditorium on a north and south axis midway between Wright Street and Mathews Avenue. This plan assumes that the future growth of the University will be chiefly toward the south of University Hall. So far as buildings have been erected or planned within the past eleven years, with the exception of the Education building, the Vivarium and those of the engineering group, this assumption has been maintained. The Commerce building, Lincoln Hall. the new Armory, the Stock Pavilion, the Administration building, the new Library, the Smith Memorial Music Hall, the Gregory Art Hall, the Women's Residence Hall, have been or will be built south of the old University building. There is seen in the location of the buildings at present under consideration the beginnings of an entirely new extension of the campus. The accompanying cut will make clear the plan which, though not formally adopted, is being quite closely followed at the present time. It will be seen that the new Armory is southwest of the Auditorium on the axis of Fifth Street, Champaign. Similarly, the new Library is to be erected east of the Armory on its east and west axis and on the axis of Wright Street. Directly south of the Auditorium will be a group of buildings for the College of Agriculture. To the west of the Stock Pavilion is a series of buildings to be occupied by the same college. The present Agricultural Hall will be reconstructed, and the two buildings which will result will be used by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. West of the Agricultural group and south of the Armory extends the new parade ground, already in use, and still farther to the west along the Illinois Central tracks will be the golf links and the new Illinois Field.