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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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CHAPTER X J T H E SOUTH CAMPUS MATERIALIZES (1924-1929) on the campus are the direct result of the fact that the University has had, for many years, a proportionally large enrollment of women students. While the institution was being organized, in 1868, a radical member of the Board of Trustees is said to have suggested that women students be admitted, and on March 9, 1870, the Trustees voted to permit women to enter the newly-founded University. During the following year, 1870-71, twenty-four women students availed themselves of this privilege and since then women students have constituted from one-sixth to one-fourth of the total enrollment. In December, 1876, the Board of Trustees considered, for the first time, the matter of dormitories for women students. It was suggested that the old Academy Building, which had been practically vacated by removal into University Hall, be remodeled and made into a Ladies' Dormitory, but under pressure of other needs this suggestion was not carried out. Again, in 1886, measures were introduced at a meeting of the Trustees concerning the proper housing of women students, and a Committee was appointed to prepare plans and estimates for constructing and operating a Ladies' Hall and Boarding House, to accommodate at least one hundred women students. The Committee reported favorably, but no action was taken. This matter of dormitories was brought up again and again over a period of many years, but no appropriations could be obtained until in 1915-17, when the first Woman's Residence Hall was erected. The site selected for this first Hall seems, in the light of later developments, to have been well chosen, and it practically determined the general location of all future women's dormitories. C ERTAIN STRUCTURES *37
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