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® KANSAS UNIVERSITY _ @ LAWRENCE, KANSAS BK.W.DAVIDSON, Director

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a A mild pbuilding boom on the University of Kansas campus was

launched nearly a year ago, when with the able assistance of Col, Karl
Baldwin, commandant of the R. 0. T. CG, date. a federal WPA grant of

approximately 380,000 was secured to begin construction on a new mili- a

tary science building, The University was required to put up $25,000 fn
eash, as well as building materials,,.as its share of the project. The
$25,000 was soon provided through the offices of the f ’ndowment Association,
the campaign deing directed by Lt. Lyle 0. Armel, assistant secretary

of the association, now somewhere in the Pacific,

Largest private contributions to the project were from Mrs, |
Paul Dinsmore, and 0. Jolliffe, Peabody, Kansas, banker and cattleman. a

incidentally, Mr. Jolliffeg has also contributed $50.9 Q in cash to be

 

 

 

IL used in constructing another scholarship dommitory atf# the University, 4
to be named Jolliffe Hall. Construction was to have been completed by i
hext fall, byt difficulty in obtaining priorities and rocketing costs a
of building materials have postponed construction indefinitely. No

In addition to the $25,000 in cash, the University provided y

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most of the building materials. The stone was provided from the demol- :
ition of 014 Snow Hall several years ago. When ob ast rdcbion is complet- sg
ed this next summer, the University will have ohe of, the finest Ry. 0. .7.

C, buildings in the nation, os cilliaetibia deci:

Under construction also is the new g@@—MM&e new $400,000 min-
eral industries building, app propriated for the University at the last Mee
lesgilative session. Z——_cmMMMNNEMD In addition to providing quarters

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and laboratory space for many Si es: scientific departments of the

 

   

given ereat. impetus oy ine Kansas Industrial Development Commission.

oratory, strictly for engineering research, and to house the studios of
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University, it will also be used larg ely as research headquarters for

the Sepieitabion oF Kansas' natural reanurces, The bet eee project coe

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completed it will be one of the finest sor eas buildings on any campus in
the middle west,

Also in process of erection is an engineering research lab-

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K¥KU, University radio station. Unique in the nation is the new engin-

eerins laboratory which is being built of stabilized earth building

blocks. The formula for the blocks is the work of Prot. By Cc, MeNown,