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Growth of the North Campus

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Architects. In their Campus Plan they proposed establishing a new College of Engineering Group on the South Campus, where there was room for future expansion, and putting the old Engineering College buildings to other uses. This would have been an ideal scheme, but an investigation proved that the cost would be prohibitive, and the plan was never put into effect. In the Piatt Plan, adopted later, no such change was suggested. It was assumed, apparently, that the College would remain in its old location and that expansion would be provided for by taking in adjacent areas. This scheme has been generally accepted, and the erection of a large Materials Testing Laboratory, described in the following paragraphs, on vacant ground west of the old Engineering group, is significant in that it virtually fixes, for all time, the location of this College. During the growth and development of the College, small testing laboratories had been set up from time to time by the various departments. Many of these were housed in the Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Laboratory, built in 1901-02, but this building was soon outgrown, and in recent years it has been necessary to establish branch testing laboratories in whatever space was available in the various engineering units. In the studies made by the College, in 1919, for future expansion, one of the most important buildings proposed was a large Materials Testing Laboratory which would house most of the work of this character in the College. The need for such a building steadily increased from year to year until it was considered most essential that it be secured, and finally, in 1927, an appropriation of $500,000 was obtained for this unit. The site for this building was practically determined by the Supervising Architect and Dean M. S, Ketchum of the College of Engineering, and was later approved by the Board. On June 7, 1926, the Supervising Architect sent a letter to President Kinley, stating that: