ent, written forty-six years
after his work was undertaken, "one of the most beautiful academic
groves to be seen in any part of the world,"--a monument to him and to
the students of his time.

The development of the building program, if a thing so haphazard can go
by that name, was less fortunate for the University. Only in very recent
years has there been any appreciation of the need of some degree of
uniformity and planning for the future. Many of the present buildings
have been evolved, as the needs of the University grew, rather than
planned, while others have been built to suit the tastes of certain
officers, or the special needs of the departments concerned, with no
reference to the larger unity which has come to be recognized as so
necessary in any group of buildings. Some of the oldest buildings have
gone; in particular the two residences on the north, which became the
old Dental College and the Homeopathic School in their last
incarnations, while the picturesque old Medical Building followed them a
few years later. The two on the south still survive; the President's
House, though often remodeled, still retains its old lines, but the
adjacent building, now known as the Old Engineering Building and used
largely for instruction in modern languages in the Engineering College,
has lost all semblance of its former character.

[Illustration: THE UNIVERSITY CAMPUS IN THE SEVENTIES]

[Illustration: THE CAMPUS ELMS]

Similarly the Law Building has undergone many transformations, while
the old Chemistry Building, now used by the Departments of Physiology,
Materia Medica, and Economics as make-shift quarters, has lost through
successive additions almost all trace of that first little laboratory
which exemplified the progressive spirit of the University in her early
days. The new Chemistry Building on the north side was completed in 1910
and cost with equipment about $300,000. It is four stories high, 230
feet long by 130 feet wide, and is built about two interior courts. The
building contains two amphitheaters, laboratories for organic and
qualitative chemistry, metallurgy, physical chemistry, and gas analysis,
as well as the College of Pharmacy.

Just beside it to the west rises the largest building on the Campus, the
Natural Science Building, which houses the Departments of Botany,
Geology, Forestry, Mineralogy, Zooelogy, and Psychology. This building,
which was something of a departure in laboratory construction w