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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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Land 47 the eastern border of the campus for approximately 160 rods. These lots amounted in all to about 11 acres. Of these, 4% acres were purchased in 1886, (>! $ acres in 1894, and about a fourth of an acre in 1903." About 20 lots near the right of way of the railroad company, which had not been secured when the 40 acre tract was purchased in 1867, were acquired at intervals during the years from 1869 to 1904. These amounted to about four acres.15 The sale of the Griggs farm of 400 acres was considered by the Trustees of the University as early as 1867. At a meeting of the executive committee held June 14 of that year a motion was carried providing that a committee be instructed "to obtain offers for the Griggs farm, or some part thereof, and report at the next meeting of the executive committee. "1G The proposition to sell the farm was voted down on two occasions by the Board as a whole—November 27, 1867, and March 11, 186817—but in 1872 eighty acres of the farm were sold;18 in 1878, one hundred and sixty acres;19 and the remaining one hundred and sixty acres were sold in 1896,20 In 1896 the transfer of the Chicago College of Pharmacy to the University resulted in the acquisition by the University of three parcels of land in Chicago, having an aggregate area of between two and three acres.20 By 1904, therefore, the domain of the University comprised about 635 acres. The general outline of the campus had changed very little from its form in 1867, the most noticeable change being the increase of 198 feet in the width of the main campus as already described. But the sale of the "Griggs farm" had reduced the farm lands belonging to the University by 400 acres. "Comptroller's Kept., Univ. of 111., Sept. 22, 1913, pp. 87-88 *Ibid ,f Rept., Univ. of 111., 1868, p. 141 "Ibid, pp. 102, 133 "Kept., Univ, of 111., 1872-8, p. 186 "From Records of Champaign County •°Rept Univ. of III, 1896, p. 241; Comptroller's Report, Univ. of I1L* September 23, 1918, p. 92
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