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CHAPTER

IX

THE ORIGIN OF THE MEMORIAL STADIUM

(i920-1922)

building of the New Library was to be delayed for two years or more, there was another movement well under way which was destined to become a matter of stirring and absorbing interest to the University, and which, eventually, was to make a very distinct architectural impression on the new South Campus. This was the consideration of a Memorial Building to be erected in honor of the loyal sons of Illinois who had given their lives in the World War. The State of Illinois had made an enviable record in the War. She had supplied her full quota of men, and had suffered a proportionately large loss. Although fully appreciative of the supreme sacrifice made by those who fell in the great struggle, yet, up to this period, the State had erected no fitting memorial to stand as a lasting tribute to them. There were movements under way at various places in the State preliminary to the erection of war memorials, but as yet very little had been accomplished. The University was vitally concerned in the World War, for she had over nine thousand alumni and former students in the service. During the academic year of 1917 and 1918, after the United States became actively engaged in the War, many students left the University to enter training camps, and during the years 1918 and 1919 the University cooperated with the Government in establishing a complete Student Army Training Corps unit on the campus, in which, from October 1918, to the signing of the Armistice, over three thousand students were enrolled. Having played such an important part in the War, it was but a natural consequence that the alumni and friends of the University and the people of the State should

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