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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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Land 49 southwest oorner of Mathews and Springfield Avenues were purchased in 1916. These two purchases completed the ownership by the University of the entire block of land bounded by Mathews, Springfield and BurriU Avenues and Green Street 11 In 1911 and 1912 eight lots east of Mathews Avenue were purchased,11 comprising a tract of land extending from Mathews Avenue thru to Goodwin Avenue and from the street railway south to the creek. Nearly three acres were included in this purchase. In 1913-14 thirteen lots lying east of the last mentioned tract were purchased, comprising about three acres.21 Three additional lots adjacent to these thirteen were purchased in 1915.23 The land embraced in these two tracts was acquired for the use of various departments of the College of Engineering* During the year 1913-14 the University purchased also six lots in the block bounded by Mathews, Stoughton, Goodwin and Springfield Avenues.14 Upon this land a building for the School of Education has been erected. During the same year a tract of ten acres within the limits of the City of Champaign, extending from First Street to the Illinois Central Railroad, was purchased and assigned to the Department of Botany.15 Two lots also were purchased in 1914 at the southeast corner of Springfield and Mathews Avenues as a site for the botany greenhouses.20 Another block in Champaign, adjoining the campus and bounded by Wright, 1 lealy and Sixth Streets and the interurban right of way, was purchased in 1914 as a site for a laboratory, a pond and an insectary for the Department of Zoology.17 The Vivarium has already been erected upon this tract. In 1914-15 three lots on Nevada Street in Urbana were purchased as a site for a Women's Residence Hall.18 "Min. of Bd. of •Trustees, U. of 111*, 1916 18, pp. 184,136 "Kept, U. of BL, 1916, p. 768 "Comptroller's Beport, 1914, pp. 51*58 •Comptroller'* Report, UBIY, of HI., 1914, pp. 51-52 "Comptroller '* Beport, Univ. of 111., 1915, p. 76 "Kept- Univ. of III, 1914, p. 753
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