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Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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• p ar I ri „ctnr-iil it "the Old probably will not. onll ll ,ia « *boui outl * « *** E 5 y hoped that such a calamitj ifflnoi hU up pacious n d a very useful build •«*«.«. . •* . ;?e of exceeding interest to many gen I • » iti | which will multiply and deepen indefinitely, for the beginnings of the University, its early « ctun i life The front at least should be retained I ill >c ubsi . tiallyasnow. I have often thought that 8 SOUtl • be erected for the building so as to C Hi '.well . I might not be impracticable to place the need* \n bly 1 ill such a new side. The open court in the Cei tl | i with asphalt or cement, with a foi ain be a "fence "where students could roost and sv p Stor I n times. If in addition to all this we sh< .Id cut d 0 tl fl D entrance to the ground and build an ar, throi h the | structure and extend it through the proposed south ic so .is | make walks and command views clear throe > connec Burrill avenue north and south, we would add a uniqi nd piing feature to our University city without i ti ing thing v. • ought to retain. We might even go further and c!< iiurrill avenue as a carriage way, and convert it into a bio 1 \ through our splendid campus, and so seem r grot lor completely to University uses, and promote that ti< o* phere which the work of higher education r< ir for \ growth. All this may or may not be among the o Certainly there is to be a new outfit of | ml : bleachers on Illinois Field one of these days. S u I ,d or some good friend specially interested in athletic b't 'to build them for us, or the Athletic Association ougl », . crusade for the money to do it with. If i„ onnecti , tl ,d be secured a b.g "batting cage " for baseball so much tl because so much the better for the batter , t Library S S S 2 * We ^ waiting *a " rather T T ™ Building. £ are * « « 01 bells m t: of the t0 tower r ^ e is but one bull,
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