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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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CHAPTER VII MORE INSPIRATIONS (1920) because of his long a n d close association with University affairs, c a m e to t h e presidency w i t h a full and s y m p a t h e t i c u n d e r s t a n d i n g of its i m m e d i a t e n e e d s a n d with a fine appreciation of its future possibilities. I n accepting the presidency, D r . Kinley expressed himself m o s t e m p h a t i cally regarding t h e u r g e n t needs of t h e U n i v e r s i t y a n d t h e necessity of t a k i n g i m m e d i a t e steps t o m e e t t h e s i t u a t i o n . H e said, in his l e t t e r of a c c e p t a n c e , J u n e 14, 1920: P RESIDENT K I N L E Y , It is clear that we must resume our building program at as early a date as possible. Your Campus Plan Committee is sketching out a great ideal for whose realization in time we all hope. Immediate necessities must, however, be considered at the same time. It is my belief that the building needs of the next three or four years, the pressing need for laboratory, classroom, and shop space, can be met without interfering at all with the great plan of development which your Board and its committee on this matter have in mind. I am in the fullest sympathy with all efforts to improve our campus, both in its ground plan and its architecture- The contemplation of our future needs and the possibilities of our future growth lead our minds far beyond anything that the University now has. We shall fall short in our preparation for the early development of the University if we do not dream very largely for its remoter future development. Therefore, I rejoice in the consideration of our so-called Campus Plan. Our need for laboratory and classroom space within two years may make it necessary to adopt a building program of both temporary and permanent construction. If so, I suggest that it may be well for us to consider soon the erection of buildings of such construction that by the end of ten or fifteen years they will be useless, while in the meantime we are erecting some of the more monumental, permanent buildings that are a part of the programs of all of us. On the educational side it will be necessary for us to look forward early to a large development in the colleges of Engineering, Agriculture, and Medicine, while at the same time making adequate provision for 88
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