University of Washington - Tyee Yearbook (Seattle, WA)

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AUDITORIUM

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avmtslmtstawtestmtstsrfstamtsifstsitj l lCONTENTS Dedication l l Acknowledgments EjI Staff f Foreword 5 Contents l The Exposition Board of Regents The President The Faculty 1 l Washington Beloved The Classes Athletics Debate and Oratory Publications Organizations Campus Day The College Hour Junior Day Society Literary Stings. 7 VEB 1909

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Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition On June 22, l906, the committee on the selection of a site for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition of i909 met and decided upon the unused portion of the campus of the University of Washington as the best suited and most beautiful grounds on which to hold the Pacific World's Fair. On that date the great and brilliant future of the University was decided. Not that the University of Washington did not have a bright future ahead of it, but the decision of the Exposition management assured the more rapid growth of the institution. ' This was proved when the legislature of the State of Washington, in making its appropriaion of 9,000,000 for the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Ex- position, set aside 35600,000 of this sum for the erection of three permanent buildings which will give the University a new Assembly l-lall, a new Chem- istry Building and a new Engineering Building after the Pacific World's Fair closes. The expenditure of several hundred thousands of dollars in clearing and grading the exposition site, in beautifying the University's grounds, practically is another present that gives in a few years an impetus toward an end that would take under natural conditions of growth many years to reach. Then there are the several permanent buildings that the exposition will erect and the many smaller ones that will be erected by the different states, countries, associations and individual exhibitors which will be donated toward the already fine structures on the University campus. When the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition closes, with the grounds laid out according to the original plan of the famous landscape artist, John C. Olmsted, of Brookline, Massachusettsg with the avenues, boulevards, circles and plazas beautihedg with the grounds supplied with a water and sewer system, and with the many additional buildings left standing, the University of Washington will have grown more than twice as large in the short time of two years. As the success of the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition will be of great benefit to the U. of W. it is proper that in this year's Tyee an outline of the plan and scope of the Pacific World,s Fair be given. Very hrst in the minds of the officials is the idea to make the Expo- sition different in every respect possible from previous worldls fairs. One policy in this line stands out above all others. No money will be asked from Uncle Sam to carry on the work. Just an appropriation from Congress 9