University of Arkansas Fayetteville - Razorback Yearbook (Fayetteville, AR)

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Page 27 i '-f3 tlqr'iif3 iiNLcuknAt'1i lfltlbiliffii if - University of Arkansas HE YEAR 1925-26 is one that will be looked back upon as a milestone in the history of the University. In that year were begun the first two units of a building program, which it is believed will, in the years to come, bring into being on the University campus a physical plant that will be worthy of the intellectual and moral aims and ambitions of the institution. After many years of delay, the legislature of 1925 appropriated 5ilS650,000 for new buildings, leaving it to the Trustees to determine how many buildings should be constructed, but stipulating that there should be one building for agriculture and one for engineering. Very wisely the Trustees decided to use all the money for these two structures rather than to divide it up into a number of smaller sums which would allow for buildings so small that they would be inadequate even for present necessities. With a foresight which has often been lacking in the management of universities, the Trustees first employed a competent firm of archi- tects to make a group plan of the campus, projecting buildings that would ultimately be sufficient for a University of eight thousand stu- dents. To some this may seem like looking unnecessarily far into the future, but we who have an abiding faith in the future of Arkansas do not think so. With a present enrollment of about eighteen hundred, and with an average increase of about two hundred a year, as has occurred in the period since the war, the University would reach eight thousand students in about thirty years, i The history of state universities in America shows, however, that the rapid development of a state has always been followed by a rapid increase in the number of students seeking admission to the university. At the present time many conditions seem to point to the prospect of great development in Arkansas within the next twenty years. If that comes about, the need for all the projected buildings will not be long deferred. jmfigawa ' I

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A J, - ff 4, , A i , IV! 3429255155915'fl-?5iii 'i'ff..jQ U -,-w,,,,,,-e. e - Uur Campus of 'Tomorrow ., .. A - W . ni. .'-rbi' 7Vl3.iZnlQ!2?i2k.lIl1inl-JZ'-' 1 ,lg ,,.,'iWf 1HH 'F'l . f f ' , ',-,JL 'f'f'j F --' ': 1 4 , I tiff' 43f'Q' .v'.,1.i , ' 3' Ili A , h i Ui- 'f ?Y? l'? ' , 1 'l--'1', - '1 -, ,1 . ,Qfif-1. - ,' .' if - .fQ:l5?I' Iff5'?f' iff F Eg . Q? ' T' 5' A f1if5 i' H?? m 3i!!s'Lif 5 i -,....... Q- +1-...value nmnfu. 1 , .-f.. 'lf-fm..f, y 4..-0... 4... nsnguq-sry-all ' -f-- tr- .f-..m.f.... r-4 UMM,-A A . .... Engineering Building HE PLAN for the development of the campus of the University of Ar- kansas, which has been accepted by the Trustees of the University, was made by Jamieson 81 Spearl of St. Louis. It embodies the results of a several months' study by the architects, who are numbered among the leaders in uni- versity architecture in the United States. The architects had before them the difhcult problem of preserving all the present buildings on the campus, some of them for many years, and at the same time evolving a plan which, in its ultimate development, would combine the elements of unity, beauty and convenience of use. The University campus as it is to be will have an open mall looking from the present Main building eastward, with buildings on the north and south sides of the front campus. In the rear of the Main building will be a quadrangle faced by buildings for agriculture, library, student union, and science. The site of the present athletic field will also be occupied by education buildings. In a natural amphitheatre on the south side of the campus, east of the present athletic field, will be constructed an open-air auditorium or Greek theatre. The education buildings planned for the front campus of sixty acres will he sufhcient for a university of about eight thousand students. The one hundred acres lying west of the front campus will be used for gymnasium and dormitories, for a field house, and for an athletic field and stadium. The place selected for a stadium, which would eventually accommo- date sixty thousand persons, is in a natural depression which would greatly lessen the cost of building the stadium walls and would diminish the unsightliness of such a structure if erected in a conspicuous place. The plan for the development of the campus, if the various units are constructed at regular intervals, will take care of the normal increase in enrollment during the i next half century. Old Enlrrmce Page 23 X