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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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Ill PROFESSOR J. M. WHITE TO PRESIDENT E. J. JAMES, MAY i6, 1910 Letter transmitting data gathered from various departments for use by the Burnham Campus Plan Commission in proposing schemes for campus development. The data embodied in the letter are a summary of the needs of the various departments for a period of fifteen years, as these needs were apparent in 1909, This material became the basis of the proposed scheme of campus development presented to the Burnham Commission; the White plan of 1909 is referred to in the letter of transmittal. URBANA, ILLINOIS, MAY 16, 1910 President Edmund J* James, University of Illinois I submit herewith the reports from the several departments upon provisions which will be required for campus extensions in the course of the nextfifteenyears. There are included very complete reports from Deans Davenport, Goss, Greene, Townsend, and Kinley; also statements from Judge Harker, Professor Mills, Professor Windsor, Director Huff, and Colonel Fechet. No report has been received upon the provisions which should be made for the welfare of the woman students of the University, over and above extensions for the work of existing departments, but in the proposed plan for campus extension submitted herewith, a location has been suggested for dormitories. Briefly summarized, the reports of the several departments include requests for the following extensions: College of Agriculture: In general there will be required fromfiveto six times the present space, adding for the Experiment Station two to three times the present laboratory area; providing reading rooms stocked with technical literature, and vastly increased space for animal judging™two needs that are at present hardly met at all; a building as large as the Chemistry Building for the work in animal nutrition; larger quarters to take care of the "short course" 195
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