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Caption: Book - Four-Year Report of UI President (1950)
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At the graduate level, groups of moi than 10 or 15 arc often too large for effective work. Over 39 per cent of graduate classes enrolled fewer than 10 students and nearly 32 per cent enrolled from 10-19 students. The second step was to expedite plans for critically needed buildings and to ask the General Assembly for funds. I he Electrical Engineering Building, the Mechanical Engineering Building, the Chemical Engineering Building, the Physics Research Laboratory, the Lincoln Avenue Residence Hall for women, and a large unit of the Student-Staff Apartments were completed on the UrbanaChampaign campus. In process of construction are the Hospital wing in Chicago and buildings for Veterinary Medicine and Animal Science at Urbana-Champaign. The Hospital addition of 400 beds and the proposed College of Pharmacy addition will make it possible substantially to increase enrollments in Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy. The construction of a six-million-dollar steam plant was started in 1950 under the name of the Medical Center Steam Company. This plant will serve at a low cost the Professional Colleges, buildings of the State Department of Public Health and the Veterans Administration, and other nonprofit medical institutions It will make the Chicago Medical Center a cleaner and quieter place. Staff members cooperated fully. They placed their desks in corridors and many are still there. They shared offices and laboratories. They taught at unusual hours. But it was apparent, even ill 19-16, that no amount of good humor and sacrifice, no feasible use of space, could take care of the flood tide of enrollment on the exist in5 campuses. It was necessary to look for new campuses on which to create new divisions of the University. Navy Pier and Galesburg A search over the state brought into focus the Navy Tier in * hiago, wli. re thousands ol men had received speciali i trainin . uring the wax, and the Army's Mayo (irneral I !. pital on the outskirts Of the eily of G a l e i b u r g . A lease for the h i 1 w.,s neeotiat 1 uiii 20
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