THE UNIVERSITY Ohio State University today occupies an enviable position among the edu- cational institutions of the United States. From the very beginning of things. in 1873, the growth of the University has been steady and consistent. Hut it is only within the past decade that the increase in attendance and facilities for instruction has been such as to place Ohio State on an equal footing with schools like Harvard, Michigan, and Cornell. Since 1900 the attendance has increased more than 757. and during the school year of 1908-09 the total registration reached the hitherto unheard-of Hgure of 3050. This remarkable growth has been due to an increased interest in all branches of University work. No one department has gained at the expense of the others. XYhile the attendance in the colleges of Arts and Law has increased, the registration in the Engineering college has kept pace, so that Cornell, lXlichigan, lllinois, and Yale are now the only schools in the country with more scientific students than Ohio State: the college of Agriculture holds fifth place among colleges of this class in the country, while the college of veterinary medicine is the largest veterinary school in the United States. These superior educational facilities are being widely recognized, and this fact is shown by the cosmopolitan character of the student body, which includes representatives from thirty-one states and nineteen foreign countries. VVith a present registration of more than 3000 students, and an attendance that is increas- ing at the rate of I2',f2 per year, no one doubts for a moment that Ohio State is a University with a great future before it. Although building operations have been going on in some part of the campus continuously for ten years past. the new construction has scarcely been able to keep pace with the increased attendance. Realizing that the formulation of a definite plan for the University of the future was highly desirable, the lloard of Trustees,- as long ago as 1905,- secured Olmsted Brothers, the famous landscape architects of llrookline, Mass., to supervise the laying out of the campus and the arrangement of buildings upon 1t. Olmsted llrothers are without question the best known landscape architects on this side of the Atlantic ocean. having laid out the grounds for the VVorld's Fair at Chicago, and for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, held at St. Louis in 1904. All buildings begun in the past four years have been located in accord- ance with their recommendations. Believing that readers of this book would like to know something about the end toward which we are working in the upbuilding of Ohio State. The ltlakio has secured the following illustrated article by Nlr. John C. Olmsted, senior member of the firm of Olmsted lirothers, which explains in detail the plan which is being followed, and which will be followed in the construction of the University of the future. 11
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