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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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193 Sixtitn Years at t\e University of Illinois in floor levels, cornice lines, pitch of roofs, alignment of corridors, symmetry and coincidence of axis lines, orientation and grades.'1* But the University has gone even a step farther, and while not constructing a series of buildings continuously about a court it has so planned the construction of each of the more important of the recent buildings as to provide for either one or two interior courts, the whole building when completed having thus somewhat the same appearance as would have resulted if a series of smaller buildings had boon erected on the four borders of the same block. I t will be noticed that at present, as in the past, buildings are being grouped according to departments. Much greater regard is now had, however, for the matter of convenience in the location of buildings of general use, and an attempt is being made to foresee in so far as possible the future needs of the University, and to place each new building in that location where it will meet not only the immediate requirements, but those of the future as well. I n 1919, the Board of Trustees voted to employ as consulting architects the firm of Holabird and Roche, of Chicago, and in 1920 the Board appointed a Commission consisting of the following persons: Mrs. Margaret D. Blake, Chairman, Mrs. Mary E. Busey, Mr. William L. Abbott, Dean 0. R. Richards, and Director George A. Huff. The purpose of this commission is to consider with the Consulting Architects and the Supervising Architect the development of the Campus Plan. How far those now in authority will be successful in this endeavor only time will show. But it is significant that the problem is receiving serious study; and while it is probable that it will become evident in the course of time that errors have been committed, the likelihood of serious mistakes has been greatly decreased. •Special report to tho University of Illinois, 1907, p. 80
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