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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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I7o History of Campus Plan Through a more recent development, the final, harmonizing touch to the Campus ensemble seems assured. The retaining of Mr. Vitale as Consulting Landscape Architect is suggestive of many possibilities, although the project is yet too young to assure the outcome. In this long evolution of the development of the Campus Plan there have been many mistakes; the growth of the University has constantly outstripped the imagination of those in control of its destinies and has rendered futile plans built on anything but the broadest and most liberal scale. Had the fathers of the institution foreseen the modern University, could the present generation look far beyond its own time, the plan as it now stands would undoubtedly be vastly different in many respects. The foresight of human beings, however, is of necessity limited. "We shall be fortunate if fifty years hence there is not far more evidence of our having been unable to forecast the future, than there is now of the lack of imagination on the part of the first builders of the University/'
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