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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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EXPANDING REGISTRATION 223 a hundred students. In erecting the Education Building, the University has drawn plans which will admit of the installation of a training and experimental high school under its roof. Of the smaller structures, the Genetics Building and Vivarium have been of a benefit beyond their size to the scientific departments, while the courses in ceramics now have a $140,000 building of their own—one of the most ornate on the campus, and indicative of the opportunity Illinois craftsmen have in her clays. The Smith Memorial Building, the first to represent a private benefaction, was commenced late in 1916, and will give its first real home to the school of music. The period has been marked by the acquisition of considerable tracts of land, about $80,000 having been spent for enlargement of the campus between 1905 and 1912, and nearly $250,000 for that of the campus and farm since. Both north and south of Springfield Avenue, Urbana, the University has bought lots which are gradually giving the northern part of the campus one very solid arm of a cross there. On the opposite side the corresponding arm has had its beginning in the purchase of over half a block south of Springfield Avenue in Champaign. Land values are inflated and growth in this district is by a slow process of purchase, but a way must be smoothed for expansion of the engineering group. The southern campus has been filled out, land bought for athletic purposes adjoining the Illinois Central tracks, and the farm much enlarged—there now being about 1,160 acres in all at Urbana. The growth of the University's gross registration quite kept pace during the President's first thirteen years with that in building and financial resources. During his first year there were less than 4,000 students—less,
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