UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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THE CAMPUS SURROUNDINGS

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the building, and gas, distilled water, compressed air and vacuum, and a wide range of electric currents are available in all its parts. The materials testing laboratory and hydraulics laboratory are among the best in America, and the ceramics laboratory has no rival. The equipment in household science is inferior to that found but at one or two schools, and is quite adequate to the registration. In agriculture work is carried on not only on fields at the University, part of which has been under continuous experimental treatment over thirty-' five years, but on nearly forty rented or donated tracts in various parts of the State. Horticulture has also twelve special plots scattered over the State, while at the University are large orchards, vegetable gardens, and greenhouses. Milk production is illustrated on a twenty-acre farm, with plants for manufacturing cheese and ice-cream. The University herds, flocks, and studs contain nearly 1,000 animals, largely pure-bred. Besides the laboratories in the central Agricultural Building, special laboratories are available in the Genetics Building for thremmatology. The Twin City environment of the University is still far from ideal, for on the prairie immediately adjoining the campus have sprung up, together with blocks of attractive residences, other blocks of small and ill-kept frame houses. The portions flanking the northejpt part of the campus are the most discreditable. Southward the faculty residences in Urbana and the fraternity and sorority houses in Champaign are steadily improving the appearance of the towns. A few apartment houses are springing up; the business district that centers at Wright and Green Streets witnesses the rapid displacement of frame stores by brick and stucco. One by one the eyesores south of the Green Street line in both towns