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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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CHAPTER V THE BURNHAM CAMPUS PLAN COMMISSION (1909-1917) 9, 1909) in anticipation of larger appropriations ^~* from the Legislature, President James recommended that the president of the Board of Trustees appoint an advisory commission to consider the location of the buildings which were likely to be granted by the legislature. This commission, the logical outgrowth of previous efforts at determining a satisfactory plan for the development of the University, was destined to have a profound effect on later plans. On April 29, Mr. Abbott, President of the Board, announced that, pursuant to the directions of the Board of Trustees, he had appointed a Committee, later referred to as a Commission, to consider a plan of the grounds and an arrangement of the new buildings. The members named were Mr. W. C. Zimmerman of Chicago, chairman, D. H. Burnham of Chicago, and C. H. Blackall of Boston. Previous to the first meeting of this commission, Mr. Zimmerman presented his plan for Lincoln Hall and recommended its present location, in conformity with the main lines of the first plan laid down by Blackall. The first meeting of the commission, December 3,1909, was devoted to a discussion of basic problems, for it was the belief of the members that the plan for the development of the University should be based on fundamentals. The commission took up in a preliminary way a discussion of the probable needs of the University and the consequent demands for building and campus space. The President of the University was requested to prepare for the use of the commission some preliminary estimates of the probable number of students to be provided for/the number of departments, the number of instructors, and the number of buildings for a period of from fifteen to twenty years. /~VN MARCH SO
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