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Fourteenth Avenue feels the difference between the old, slovenly, unkempt appearance of the broad sweep of Campus and the present order and beauty, prophetic of even better things to be. The fence is a great success. Dress a child in white and it will take pride in keeping clean. Everyone con- nected with the University has a sense of pride in its more attractive surroundings. The fine old oaks, the pleasant walks over the green, the picturesque view of the grand Nlississippi flowing southeast under the high bluffs will leave an everlasting impression on the minds of those who from day to day and year to year pursue their life of study here. These charms, these memories will sink into our minds, will become a part of our lives, and we too shall have a poet to sing: Ye distant spires, ye antique towers, That crown the watery glade. '. . . - ' sp . -LATURE is the cleverest landscape gardener. lt , Q: I t was she who directed the Father of Waters to x cut his way throu h the vlain and leave the ' 5 wifi 5 i' high bluffs' on whigh the haind of man has built ,I Q Q the halls of the University, The distribution ' X of the buildings over the Campus has not been A g :T made with forethought. They have been ' A placed by hazard rather than by law. Such ' -' costly and excellently planned structures as the new Physics and lVlining buildings have lost their potential beauty by their unfortunate location. University Avenue should have been made the back door of the University. The Campus should have been left to face the river. One great building, planned to contain all the laboratories and recitation halls, should have been erected along the avenue. The entrance to the Campus should have been made by passages through this long building, passages built like great gateways surmounted by towers. Passing under the great building by these vast portals one would then enter the Campus and find himself facing the river, the distant city, and the setting sun. Such famous sites as the Victoria Embankment on the Thames, the Riverside Drive of New York, and Summit Avenue of St. Paul, would have paled before the splendor and grandeur of the Campus of the University of lVlinnesota. We shall build anew some day, the present structures of brick will not endure forever, some Augustus will come and leave it of marble. Naturally he will adopt the plan just outlined. The day is not far distant when University Avenue, at least that part of it opposite the Campus, will be a sort of annex to the University. 14
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