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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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VII. PROFESSOR T. J. BURRILL TO PROFESSOR J. M. WHITE, JANUARY ao, 191a. Letter called forth by the presentation of campus plan studies at a meeting of the faculty January 19, 1912. This letter is one of the last written by Professor Burrill about the campus in which he had so long been interested. January 20, 1912 Professor James M. White > Supervising Architect MY DEAR SIR: I am greatly interested in the plans for the campus presented by you and in your explanation of them. I have never felt that we had anything presented that carried with it the prime essential of permanence or stability; and without this no plans are worth very much. It is true, nothing whatever can be adopted by those in authority at this time which will bind those who succeed in authority. In this sense, it does not seem to be worth while to look far ahead. In details, according to my judgment, it is not. The only security that can be in any wise relied upon is such reasonableness, such adjustment of needs, such adaptation to common sense, withal so evident as the best thing under the circumstances that all who come after cannot help but appreciate all this, and then cannot help but follow. The location of the present Auditorium was the subject of more discussion, more careful consideration, more seeking of good advice, than that concerning any other building on the campus; yet, I believe it is now, after this short lapse of time, generally considered to be the greatest mistake of that kind ever made here. On the other hand, some of the objections that were urged at the time to this location are now easily seen to be altogether unfounded. I cite this in illustration of what has just been said. Your latest suggestions which centralize the University on the one hundred sixty acres now called the south campus, have much merit in the direction of permanence. It does not necessarily carry with it giving up or belittling the use of the area from University Avenue or Springfield to the north line of this one hundred sixty acres. I do not think this should be thought of at all. I still query, however, whether the buildings devoted to 2IO
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