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History of Campus Plan

versity with the proposed ultimate growth that we are planning, appeared at first to be a very difficult matter, but as now developing it is found that the plans which had been developed previously require but slight modification to fit into the ultimate scheme. And furthermore, it seems that existing buildings can continue in service so long as they are physically fit. The plan has now developed far enough to convince us that the physical property of the University can be directed in its growth so that each new building will be a step toward an ultimate ideal. This ideal, when accomplished, offers the possibility of making the campus of the University of Illinois the finest in the country.

From a preliminary sketch stage they carried their plan forward in a very comprehensive manner, developing it so as to provide for a University on a monumental scale. Advantage was taken of every aspect of the great prairie-like expanse of University land, which was skillfully divided into architecturally related areas with a fine regard for all the feasible architectural and landscape effects. All the possibilities of the field laboratories, exhibits, and experimental plots used in connection with Agriculture, Landscape Gardening, Horticulture, and Floriculture were fully capitalized in the scheme so as to make them contributory to the beautifying of the ultimate Campus Plan. Although not adopted, except in some of its fundamentals, the Holabird and Roche Plan has had, nevertheless, considerable influence on the later developments of the campus. The study of the Campus Plan at just this point in the development of the University was of great value, for it gave to the University officials, and through them to the people of the State, a broader outlook, a finer inspiration and enthusiasm, and a greater vision of what the University of the future ought to be, than they would otherwise have had.