Caption: Book - Overview and State of the University (1913)
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10 THK i M \ i Bflrn OP [LUNOifl could -pond a pleasant hour in the ZoOl tl Mi in,, which is the work of students of < lierdaysand, hih creditable as it was fascinating to them, illu trat. r;, well how marked the advance in the method of tea bing the biological sciences has boon. On the other side of th< hallw< pa moment at thedoorofth old Chapel which It will seal has grown so small as to largely gooui of U Tno TTT^ilo ivo nppil Mccnniinodat ions l<>r 8,000. T H E LAW BUILDING. The only other building on the campus which ie fifteen years old was built in 1877 for a (Ihemical laboratory, and remodeled in 1902 for the College of haw. This College believes in studying the science of law just as one studies any other science, and exacts the entire time of students and teachers. The college is young, being opened in 1897. The building has been well made over, and its pleasant offices, ample class rooms, well lighted library, and traditional court room make a line home for a College which promises to be very potential in the affairs of the University and the State. * T H E ARMORY. The next structure erected is the Armory at the north end of Burrill avenue. Burrill avenue, by the way, runs north and south nearly through the three hundred acre in the campus, has a stately row of beautiful elm trees on either side and takes its name from that of the professor who has been setting out trees on the University grounds from the very beginning. It is said 15,000 trees have been so placed. The drill floor at the Armory is 100x160 feet, and the roof, designed by our professor of architecture, is said to be the largest trussed roof in the State. Bere military drill is required of all freshmen and sophomore male students twice each week through the y ir. The military organization consists of a Band of forty men -i battery of artillery of about eighty [men. with two six pounder field guns, and a regiment of infantry of six hundred men, equipped with the regulation cadel musket
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