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History of Campus Plan

clearly defined obstacle in the path of further expansion. Numerous suggestions had been made from time to time, but in only one instance had a plan shown the extension of the Campus into the cemetery. This was proposed by Mr. Blackall in his plan prepared under the Burnham Campus Plan Commission in 1912. The Commission of 1920-22 evidently felt that some steps should be taken to solve the problem, and their recommendation that the development to the east and west of the cemetery should be about an east and west axis through it, was a most logical one, since it would permit of a balanced arrangement of building about the cemetery grounds, a scheme by virtue of which the cemetery would become the inner open area of a large quadrangle, which might in the future be landscaped so as to make it less conspicuous. Having agreed on certain basic lines and on a general method of procedure in the placing of specific groups of buildings, it was now possible for the University architects to begin working out the details of the whole Campus Plan and finally to a consideration of specific buildings, so that each new unit erected would be a direct step to the ultimate plan. One of the first structures to be located under this new Plan was the Horticulture Building, for which, at a Board meeting in December, 1920, the President of the Board had been authorized to make a contract with Holabird and Roche for the design, plans, and specifications. While continuing the detailed plans for this building, the firm also carried on their more extended studies of the whole proposed Campus Plan, creating a great dream for a future University. The first report made, on June 15, 1920, to the Campus Plan Commission and to the Board of Trustees, by Holabird and Roche, is most interesting, and shows how far-reaching was their conception of a great university plant. Their report was, in part, as follows: . . . . The general scheme as now developed contemplates the continued growth southward. Ultimately, the land occupied will include the