UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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222 UNIVERSITY AFTER IT FOUND ITSELF portion, though the space was more than doubled A three-story Transportation Building was begun, a locomotive testing laboratory built, a dairy barn opened, and the Law Building x remodeled. Finally, over $20,000 was given for a kilnhouse for ceramics, and to this having been added a sum appropriated the mining engineering department for equipment, a building was erected to serve the two, upon lines that gave it also room for future expansion. The largest additions since then have been in the completion of the Chemistry Building, in an addition to the Commerce Building for administrative purposes, in the Education Building, in the Women's Residence Hall, and in a large Stock Pavilion; while a considerable amount has been spent upon a final addition to the Natural History Building and other minor erections. The older portion of the Chemistry Building had become intolerably crowded: the demand for chemists as such was always growing, while at the same time the agricultural and engineering colleges required courses in chemistry of large elements in their registration. Completed as a hollow square, the structure has more than doubled its former space. The Administration Building greatly relieved the Natural History Building, which was again becoming congested, for the offices of the President, registrar, comptroller, dean of men, and others were removed to it. The Stock Pavilion is used not only for the judging of stock, but for large, informal assemblies, as of the farmers gathered for extension work. The Women's Residence Hall, erected at one of the points where the campus extends farthest into Urbana and after plans which make it architecturally harmonious with the Woman's Building, will house about

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The college of law had occupied the old Chemistry Laboratory.