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Caption: Book - 30 Year Master Plan (Tilton & O'Donnell)
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More Inspirations 89 other colleges whose need for building and equipment may not rise to so large a figure as the three that I have just mentioned. I have particularly in mind the better support of the Colleges of Commerce and of Education. We shall need also to do something more for the College of Law, the School of Music, and the Library School; and, of course, it goes without saying, that we must keep step with the needs of the State and the country in our department of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In short, our immediate future development calls for programs of virtual renewal of the plant and equipment of the first three colleges; provision for reasonable development of the others mentioned to meet the demands that come upon us; and at the same time a permanent and semi-permanent plan of campus and building development looking as far into the future as we can wisely plan. With renewed courage and inspiration gained from the leadership of a new President, with a line of action clearly defined, and with full confidence in the people of the State to stand back of the University, the Trustees turned with determination to the problems of University expansion on an extended plan. This was the turning point. Although not then apparent, in reality the University was standing at the very threshold of the greatest and most rapid period of development in its history. Studies of the Campus Plan were carried forward with renewed vigor and interest. At the meeting of the Board of Trustees in September, 1920, Mrs. Blake, Chairman of the Campus Plan Commission, reported the progress being made on the studies of the Campus Plan, and introduced Mr. Holabird, who presented and explained a sketch of the proposed plan. At this same meeting President Carr reported that Mr. Edward L. Ryerson of Chicago, Mr. Robert Allerton of Monticello, and Dr. Edmund J. James, President Emeritus of the University, had been asked to serve as advisory members to the original Campus Plan Commission. The Commission, having made a careful preliminary survey of the Campus Plan, and desiring to fix certain basic features on which to develop the plan for the future, adopted the following recommendations at their meeting in November, 1920:
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