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campus expansion. The Blackall Plan of 1912, and the White Plans of 1912 and 1919 all show these activities assigned to that general area. And, further, the recommendation in regard to the location of the Horticulture Building was, in general, a confirmation of a site approximately in the vicinity already proposed. In all these, the Commission of 1920-1922 proposed no radical changes. However, three of their recommendations suggested changes and extensions in the Campus Plan which were revolutionary in character and which indicated that the members of the Commission were looking very far into the future. One recommendation was that the present Engineering group be given over to other uses and that a new Engineering College be located west of the Parade Grounds, between First and Fourth Streets. The crowded condition of the Engineering group and the difficulty of obtaining land for necessary expansion had long been a problem, and the Commission proposed to solve it by building an entirely new college in a new location where space would be available for future expansion. An estimate of the probable cost of such a move proved, however, that the expense involved in making such a changewould be prohibitive. Another recommendation of the Commission was that a new Agriculture group be located east of Mount Hope Cemetery and west of Lincoln Avenue. This, also, was a projection of the Campus Plan considerably beyond former proposals. The site suggested for such a group, in most plans drawn u p to this time, had been approximately in the place where the new Agriculture Building now stands. The most interesting of all the recommendations made by the Commission was that which suggested a method of planning the Campus around Mount Hope Cemetery. In the early development of the Campus the location of the cemetery was so far removed that it was not given a thought in any plan. But as the University developed, and as the campus area was extended farther and farther southward, it became, in time, an element to be considered, and, in more recent years, a