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Extracts from Letters

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approach to the University through Green Street that if you have not already noticed this in the Outlook I am sure you will be interested in it

C. H. Blackallto Professor N. C. Richer

AprU 27, 1905: . . . . At the last meeting of the University of Illinois Alumni Association I was chosen President, and the sense of the Association was very strongly expressed that a move should be made towards a systematic laying out of the grounds of the University and towards some beginning at least of a memorial to Doctor Gregory. I want to write to President James on this subject, but unfortunately I do not know his name and I do not imagine he knows me from Adam. Would you be so kind as to speak to him at your convenience and tell him I am going to take the liberty of writing him, in the hope that it may lead to such improvements as will be desired by everyone interested in the architecture of the University? I cannot feel myself wholly an outsider in this matter. You will remember I did a little for President Draper, looking towards some treatment of the approach from Main Street, but I sincerely trust that it may be possible to get the University authorities interested in both a general treatment of the grounds and in a memorial to Doctor Gregory. I am aware it is a pretty large problem and of course we could not expect it to be accomplished at once

C. H. Blackallto President E. y. yames

November 10, 1905: . . . . I found, as you say, that Doctor Draper had very decided ideas about many things at the University. He does not believe that the University is to grow very much in numbers; at least so I inferred from what he said. Of course if the University is never to grow the whole problem of treating the grounds will have to be considered from a standpoint which I admit is not the one I have assumed, for my conviction is very clear that the University is just entering upon an era of growth when under your guidance it will become both large and great. December 8, 1905: The more I study the layout for the grounds which I showed you when I was at Champaign in September, the less I like it. The south campus as it exists now is really too small for the Auditorium, and the lop-sided arrangement of Burrill Avenue and the unfortunate placement of the present main building are very discouraging. I tried to satisfy myself that by some

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