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VI DEAN E, DAVENPORT TO PROFESSOR J. M. WHITE JANUARY 20, 191a Letter which followed a general meeting of the faculty called by the President to discuss the proposed campus plan. This letter and the one following should be read in connection with the plans of 1912.

URBANA, JANUARY ao, 191a

Professor James M. White% Supervising Architect

MY DEAR PROFESSOR WHITE:

I have already expressed my concurrence with your views regarding the extension of the University campus to the southwest, but I am glad to comply with your request of yesterday to furnish notes covering any thoughts that may have arisen in connection with the discussion. Rriefly, then, I should say the matter stands in my mind something as follows: 1. It is easy to understand that space can be had at any time to the east or to the west of the present campus for such additional buildings as may be needed. But it is at once evident, when we consider the great outof-door interests of an institution like this, that however well such extension might provide mere building sites, anything like a comprehensive idea of campus extension must include the acquisition of practically unoccupied territory in large amounts; and I am only too glad that the location of the armory and the necessity for providing proper drill grounds have raised this latter question before it is too late. a. For the first time in the history of the University, so far as I have been acquainted with it, the out-of-door interests have really come up tor consideration, and for the first time something like a comprehensive plan has been proposed to meet their requirements. 3. These outdoor interests cover not only drill grounds and athletic fields, but also space for quartering certain agricultural material, like specimen animals for class work, besides the great outdoor laboratories for departments like those of Horticulture and Agronomy, whose plantings are as truly their laboratories as are the buildings and table equipment of other departments.

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