Show Campus Has Progressed Far Beyond Dreams of Founders By Helen Chamberlin Founder's at the university finds a much different campus than the one which plans foresaw in 1900 when the campus was laid 50 years after its official founding February At that Second South extended to where the rostrum now stands and the center of the sixty-acre grant of land was a circle drive which went around the flag pole in front of the biology and liberal arts Each of these buildings was cons tru at the ends of of eight gravel walks which extended spoke-wise from the the original plan being to construct each future building at the end of the remaining spoke The gymnasium made its appearance in A corresponding circle of flowering cherry trees was planted in replacing the proverbial puddles and mustard which up to this according to faculty members on the campus ornamented the Lawns were added several years At the instigation of President George Thomas and members of the Board of and landscape architects of were brought to landscape the cam-us which resulted in the removal of the The circle changed to its present with new drives and During the first world the medical and geology were bulit to house and feed army personnel being train ed at the The engineering the music the the stables and the appeared in rapid succession between the end of the war and the construction of Kingsbury Work on the Union building began shortly Field House The campus gates were the class gifts for three and The field house was dedicated January to complete the campus as we know it |