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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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Adornment of the Grounds 163 Star Illini. After a very impressive ceremony these were planted according to a carefully arranged plan, about the Armory and along the drives enclosing the Military and Recreation Field. The expansion of the University Campus into the large South Campus area which formerly served as an experimental farm, has brought new and difficult problems in landscaping. Proposed plans, prepared from time to time, have shown suggested treatments for the various areas, but only a minimum of permanent planting was done. This was due, in part, to the general feeling that the final solution of the Campus Plan had not yet been reached. With the adoption of the Piatt Plan, however, definite areas were set aside for buildings, quadrangles, courts, recreation and drill fields, the Mall, avenues, drives, and walks. At first these were only on paper and but vaguely suggested in a few instances, by the position of existing buildings. During J922 the Buildings and Grounds Committee and the Supervising Architect made a careful study of the needed extension features for the Campus, and made numerous recommendations which were approved and put into effect. The Consulting Architect, in a letter to President Abbott on September 12, 1922, made special recommendations for the extension of drives, streets, walks, and particularly that avenues of trees be planted on all parts of the South Campus where the grade could be adjusted to the new plan. Much of this work has been carried out under the direction of the Supervising Architect, and an extension of the campus lighting system and other necessary basic improvements have been made. Stadium Drive and all major streets in the vicinity of the Stadium have been opened and paved. Gregory Drive has been opened and a portion improved. South Drive, parallel to Gregory, has been established and a part of it constructed. Numerous walks have been extended into the South Campus, large areas graded, and many trees planted, all in general conformity to the Piatt Campus Plan. Special committees were appointed from time to time for considering the planting of particular campus areas, such as
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