Repository: UIHistories Project: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell) [PAGE 82]

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W H I T E PLAN—1914 A study of the development of the University made in December, 1914, by Professor J. M. White, assisted by George E. Wright. The study of 1914 is distinctive in thai it shows the extension of the campus into large areas not owned by the University, and the appearance for the first time of a definite, carefully planned men's group opposite the Armory. Development of all land south of Armory Avenue and west of Lincoln and the allotment of the newly purchased 320-acre tract south of Florida Street are suggested. The golf course is enlarged to cover the 120 acres south of the cemetery, the idea being that this tract, if made a University playground, will in future years, with the extension of the campus southward, become the front yard of the University. Another suggestion embodied in this plan, the result of the first serious attempt to study the growth of the University in relation to the two contiguous cities, is the desirability of the University's controlling all land to the south to safeguard the institution against throttling extensions of the cities. There are numerous records of other universities, situated at .one time similarly to Illinois, waking up suddenly to the fact that extensions of surrounding residence and business districts had made their further growth difficult and costly; the 1914 plan aims to point a way out of such problems.