University of Tennessee Knoxville - Volunteer Yearbook (Knoxville, TN)

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The fashion of the day demands the new look, a new profile. Right in step with the times is the university, for the Hill will have a new profile too, just as soon as the new buildings add their silhouettes. First there,s the addition to the engineersi castle that should give them more room to set up their Erector sets, or whatever it is they do in those long afternoon labs at Ferris and Esterbrook. Now a college, Business Administration has come of age and rates a new building of its own. Then there,s the dream palace of the student body, the student center which should prove mighty handy for whiling away those free periods. Rumor has it that the law students will soon join the fold and leave their seclusion of Main Street hill. All the better to cultivate clients, their future home will be nearer the center of things than now. Don,t be fooled by the above paragraph and think that the Hill proper is the only thing getting new buildings. One glance at the above drawing will show that the Ag School is in for quite a bit of expansion. Work is in progress on a group of dairy buildings that should make the Uni- versity of Tennessee one of the south,s outstanding dairy schoolS, and make the state a Southern version of Wisconsin. Never one to get left out, Memphis has its share of construction under 9 la, n , tr I , 'k n. ,V - NJ! I- , w; W M f' . ex, gen 4 Wyn. way. A dentistry building is going up under the watchful and eager eyesi a of the budding D.D.S.,s. Besides this, there,s just no telling what else isf'lL being planned for the Memphis Division of the university. ll

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Q Ihe Hilb, you say, as if our state were fritter-Hat and boasted only one peak, we Tennesseans are always for making a mountain out of an ole hill. With the assurance that this particular hill is different from any other, we glibly refer to the Hill as if everyone know about a knoll amid the loftier and more impressive Smokies. And well we might, for this simple phrase succinctly means the University of Tennessee at Knoxville; if everyone hasn,t heard of it by now, they undoubtedly will in the next few years. A familiar sight to East Tennesseans of a century and a half ago was lush and weII-round-ed Barbara Hill. Barbara Hill was not some backwoods beauty as might be implied by the name, but the hill west of Knoxville which became the main campus of the present day university. Then sun- drenched, grassy, and ringed by cow-paths, itts now tree-shaded, still grassy, and ringed by three roads. Engineers and football crowds take the low road, while administrators, biologists, PocG-men, chemists and the Ayres corps take the high roads. This leaves the middle aisle for the PT and auditorium throngs, the BIount girls, more engineers, and the cliff-dwelling veteran families. Plans are on the drawing boards for a new building program de- signed to replace the makshift housing serving a temporary purpose in handling present-day overHow crowds. Permanent expansion to provide for a maximum of an estimated 10,000 expected in 1950 is on the way. Indeed, the hill razers whose snorting bulldozers are clawing out founda- tions in the hillside are making way for the buildings that will soon rise above the elms. A greater Hill will soon be built above the splinters of the stop-gap shantytown. Over on Rose Avenue, workmen are putting the finishing touches on the men,s dormitory. Welcome relief from barracks life, it should be ready come June. The building is planned along new lines in that several rooms are grouped around a central lounge, affording more room and comfort than conventional dorms provide. 10 construction . . . It9s fascinating to watch all the new

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