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

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7™y. jested cliant;cs and a readjustment of the plans incorporating more or less of these suggestions, and this piiKess repeated again and again, not only brings out ideas otherwise unavailable, but it makes all in- terested parties contributors and thereby secures their interest and endorsement and, later, their enthus- iasm and support. I do not think we can stress as fully as we would like, the importance of an adequate setting for our buildings. We devote untold thousands of wealth to the development of culture, and culture is the objective of all our etforts as University people, in this connection we are quite well aware that m is solely through the art and the literature of the civilizations that have gone before us that we hav. any possible way of judging them and it is only those peoples that develop an art and a literature ot their own that live in history today. Regardless of how conscious v may be of this fact it seems that we are overlooking for the most part the greatest possible opportunity in our failure to co-ordinate our many beautiful and monumental buildings into a composite whole that will adequately support their beauty. We have often observed that a cottage with a beautiful setting is a much more K ' autiful picture than a mansion without any setting at all. We have noted, for instance, that the City of Washington, which during its lifetime has doubtless had more attention paid to planning than any other city in America, never seemed to find herself until recently, at the time of the building of the Lincoln Memorial. An open mall or fairway was developed between that building and the Potomac River on the one end and the Capitol Building on the other. Then the city seemed to be immediately conscious of the impKirtance of tying together all the monumental structures of that are;i into one great picture which might be supported m time by the lesser lights of the landscape. Our conclusion is that in the building of our landscape it is not the housing problem that should dominate the scheme, nor should the kind of house to be built by future administrators of our Uni- versity affairs be made the subject of comment or discussion or planning. On the other hand it is the open spaces, the fairways, the malls and the vistas that should dominate the scheme and the building i ' .reas along should be incorporated as a setting for the whole. In this connection we invite again a careful study of the illustrations that accompany this story of our campus plan; that our people may know to what extent we have undertaken to apply to our picture the simple principles we have herein enumerated. Note in detail the flat tracing of the University zone, that it is well defined and well framed, and that it has a veritable series of fairways and vistas interlocking on numerous axes to form a compre- hensive group of picture? that together make up our landscape. Two of these vistas are illustrated here in perspective: I. The Stadium Mall (Fourteenth street to Stadium) II. The Quadrangle (Engineering group to Library) Many others equally beautiful are not illustrated. A. Eleventh street fairway, to Engineering group. B. Stadium Walk (with gateway) — Twelfth street vacated. C. Fifteenth street —from State Capitol to Librarv D. Fifteenth street from Library to State Capitol. E. Library to Women ' s Gym. F. Women ' s Gym to Library. G. Library to Engineering group. H. Engineering group to Library (illustrated). I. Fourteenth street to Stadium (illustrated). J. Auditorium to Administration building. K. Administration building to Auditorium. Note also the happy use of lower ground to the north of Auditorium .uul Women ' s Gym by a sort of sunken garden effect, to be made use of for athletic fields. After careful study of all, we cordi.iily mvite all friends of our L ' niversily to contribute any thought suggestive of improvement. Giio. N. Skymdur. Chatrman Campus Planning Committee University of Nebraska. MM y.v•vyi y. y• • y•«W4 y • % y•

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. ? . Hakrv n. Landis Board of Regents XN the very nature of things your Regents may not come in close and personal contact with the students in so numerous a family, but we nevertheless wish them to know that we are more conscious day by day of the growth of our University in quality as well as quantity and we are happy in the accomplishment, year hy year, of a broader culture, physically, intellectually, morally and spiritually. The students are the interpreters to the world of Nebraska ' s standards. They are the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen. It is their culture that is the index of our progress and we are proud to accept it as a worthy .iccomplishment. 15- MM M»N ' « W4V«V.vViW«vy i yi : «V I i TTT III ' » ' ' ' ' » J ' ' ' » ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ ' ' '