University of Nebraska Lincoln - Cornhusker Yearbook (Lincoln, NE)

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THE, S cohnhusker, - N I K ETrRjEN tT W E. N T Y Bird ' s Eye View of the Campus of the Future The street at the left (west) of the scene, passing the eliptical stadium, is Tenth street. Dormitories and Engineering buildings are to be seen beyond it. The next street to the right is Twelfth, which leads to the Memorial Gymnasium and beyond that to the Power House. R street is in the foreground. The Law buildings, Administration building, and old U Hall are to be seen on the old campus, between Tenth and Twelfth streets, facing R street. The buildings facing Twelfth street have columned entrances, giving Twelfth the name of The Street of a Thou- sand Columns . The great Museum and Library building faces R street between Twelfth and Fourteenth. Fifteenth street terminates in the huge Assembly Hall. Seventeenth street, with boulevards branching from it, marks the right (east) border. The boulevards join Seventeenth street at the right of the large Amphitheatre, while the Mall runs down S street to the left of this building. In the background are seen the Dormitories and Quads extending from Tenth to Seventeenth. 23

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THE, COnNHVSKER. N I N E,T E K N-Ck-TWE-NT Y and when he was rea ' dy — well, even if dad had wished it, you couldn ' t have steered him into another college. Why, his name ' s Cornhusker! We do take some pride, those of us who have stayed by the job, in what we have made out of our good old U. of N. Twenty years have seen a change worth seeing. That ' s part of what I ' m here for, too. Nebraska is known everywhere now as the college that knew how to grow. I ' ve read about it all times enough. But I was determined to see it, too. That alone would have brought me back. It ' s the first thing that ' s going to happen. It ' s the first that happens to every Lincoln visitor, grad or no, the University is the town ' s Exhibit ' A. ' I propose to make myself combined reception committee and guide for your first aid. Shall we to it? Gladly. I got some inkling of the change, I think, when the train rolled in this morning. All north Lincoln seemed to be a parked campus, down to the right of way. Makes some impression for the town. It certainly does. Lincoln never made a better investment than that dormitory lay-out. It has paid out in cash, in comfort, utility, beauty a hundred times over. And it has transformed student life. It was fine in the old days, with all the discomforts; but now — why the dormitory feature alone draws from every quarter. Yes, John Henry, Jr., has described it often. Now which way are we going, the town seems new? In a moment you ' ll see. I ' m taking you to the most familiar entrance. Do you recognize that? Old U Hall with its mansards and tower! Still on its own keel. By George, I didn ' t think any building, beautiful or not, could look so good to me! We all love it. It means something. It was the first, and every brick that went into those walls was wagon-hauled from the Missouri in the days before a rail was laid into Lincoln. The sentiment that built that old hall out here on the raw prairie is one Nebraskans thrill to. Its idealism has been our measure. Nothing has seemed too good, in comparison. Right you are. Its the idea that counts in making a college — from the first. Yes, the idea. An education as free and liberal as the winds that blow. Nebraska started with it, and now the old Uni has weathered seventy years. I wonder what those pioneer paters would think of her now! Jove! Now we ' re getting where we can see. I feel like one of them myself. The last twenty years have done far more than the first fifty. As they should. An idea like any other moving force gathers momentum as it goes — if the right boost is behind it. And we ' ve boosted. My boy, it ' s plainer than day that you have. I need a guide. Lay it out for me. I knew you ' d need me — though the pleasure ' s mine. Here we are at Eleventh and R, fronting U Hall. That ' s familiar. I fancy, too, you ' ll recog- nize the old library. It ' s been part of the Law School plant for years. Glance down beyond and you ' ll see that everything ' s parked on down to Ninth — facing the city park (on the old Hay Market), which leads to the big Union station you came in by. The R street viaduct begins at Ninth. Leads on out to Capital Beach where the Uni keeps a boating house now. You ' ve noticed some of our shell records? Who hasn ' t? I meant to say that the houses and greenery across Tenth from the Law are given over to the law students ' quads. They ' ve t d big Commons 24