UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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INSTRUCTIONAL EXPANSION

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exercise was very restricted, and there was neither track nor space for heavy apparatus. The burning of this had sent them back to the Armory. The women were at this time allotted narrow athletic quarters in the Natural History Building, with ground near by for certain open-air sports. Finally, the large appropriation for 1903 carried a sufficient sum for the Woman's Building ($80,000), though it was but half of what it should have been. The architectural department had already drawn plans for a more expensive structure, and they had to be abandoned. Six architects of reputation were then selected to prepare sketches and floor plans; and these having been thrown aside, Dr. Draper enlisted the services of McKim, Mead, and White through Representative Joseph G. Cannon. This firm began its work just as Draper left. The hall, in a pure New England colonial style and with a broad frontage of lawn, was for years a jewel, and great was the regret when an addition made it necessary to spoil it utterly—for it had not been planned with an eye to enlargement. But the most prominent feature of Draper's administration was not the growth in buildings, faculty, funds, or in students, but the strikingly regular founding of wholly new colleges and schools. In the decade no less than six appeared—law, medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, music, and library science. Nor did these represent a mere opportunism; they were the fruit of the principles of Draper and Altgeld that the University must be so well rounded as to respond to every interest in the State. In two or three instances these professional interests themselves urged the addition; in all, the innovations bound the University more closely to the State,