ad, was ready for service. It cost approximately a
third of a million dollars, and furnishes heat, compressed air,
electrical energy, and hot water to the Campus and adjacent buildings
through a series of tunnels nearly ten feet high which extend as far as
the Union, half a mile across the Campus.

Aside from the smaller and the more temporary buildings and the many
dwelling houses on property recently acquired, the buildings of the
University number about forty. This does not include the buildings
occupied by the Y.M.C.A. and the Y.W.C.A., or the Psychopathic Hospital,
the titles to which do not rest with the Board of Regents.

Though the buildings on the Campus have not, until very recently, been
placed with any careful relationship to a general scheme, and exhibit a
very unfortunate lack of architectural harmony, in certain features the
Campus gives promise of better things in the future. Some of the
buildings have real beauty, though it is too often lost in an
unfavorable environment. Charming details are to be found here and
there, while the green canopy of the elms and maples planted sixty years
ago helps to give our academic field a real distinction. Fortunately the
center of the Campus has been left comparatively free of buildings, save
for the rambling old Chemistry Building, now used by the departments of
Physiology and Economics, and the plain but imposing bulk of the new
Library Building, a fitting center whence paths diverge in every
direction to the halls and laboratories along the avenues that mark the
outer confines of the Campus. Lack of funds and the imperative need of
room, and yet more room, for the thousands of new students, has severely
limited the Regents in the matter of adornment of the buildings erected
in recent years, which have all tended to conform to one type, simple,
dignified in their very rectangular bulk, and relieved only by patterns
in tapestry brick and terra cotta trimmings.

Within recent years, too, the new buildings have been carefully placed,
not only with reference to the present Campus, but also the inevitable
northeastward growth of the University toward the hills lining the
river. For some time the Regents have been acquiring scattered parcels
of property as occasion presented, and now own a good share of the land
in the triangle bounded roughly by Hill Auditorium, the University
Hospitals and Palmer Field, an area twice as large as the present
Campus. In addition there i