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Burnett Hall Marks Start
Wednesday, September 1, 1948'
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NEW BURNETT HALL, above, the most recent addition to the University, will be headquarters for
most Arts and Sciences students this fall. Built to be a sister to Andrews hall, Burnett is named for
a former chancellor of the University and faces south on T street at 12th. History, journalism, pho
tography and anthropology classes will all be included in the building's itinerary.
Final Classes
HeldinUHall
On May 21
At 4:50 the bell rang and 15
University students stopped their
Spanish 54 lesson. Miss T. Agnes
Gordon dismissed the class and
the students strolled out of Uni
versity hall.
Thus on Friday, May 21, the fi
nal class was held in old U hall,
birthplace of the present Univer
sity of Nebraska.
Built in 1870 in the center of
the old campus, U hall originally
was a three-story building, topped
by a tower. Worn by the years,
the top two stories were removed
tn 1926 as unsafe.
Old U hall was razed during
the 1918 summer session to make
room for a new, modernistic and
much needed electrical engineer
lug building. Journalism and lan
guage classes have been moved to
the new Burnett hall north of So
cial Sciences. The Junior division
moved to new quarters following
second semester registration
(From the Nebr. Alumnus, June,
1948.)
Aimed at giving you a nodding
acquaintance with the school
around which your life, for the
next few years, will be centered,
this "Meet Your University" edi
tion is being sent to all entering
frehmen with the hope that you
Will read and take heed.
This is meant to be a last-minute
follow up for the volumes of
literature mont of It necessary
but dull forma already 'sent you
by the Unlverkity. It Is intended
to show you that Nebraska means
more than filling out question
naires and to give you some pic
ture of the University's tremend
ous scope.
University Is new to you, and If
your first glimpse of it la through
these paces, chances are you feel
a touch of panic. The best piece
of advice vm will receive Is: Take
your time. Don't hurry Into It and
don't feel you must learn every
thing at once. That will take a
while.
However, read careTully what is
written here, look closely at the
pictures and maps, and youll have
an outline to help yon through
those trying days.
S. G.
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REPLACES OLD University hall, razed this summer to make way
tering students will miss the sight of the ancient building. Entering students will miss the sight of
the ancient bulldinr, which housed all classes at the University's founding. For several years, use of
U hall has been confined to the journalism and modern language departments.
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The University of Nebraska's campus of the future is shown In this landscape architect draw
ing of the first phase of the campus beautlflcatlon program. Eliminated Is Ellen Smith Hall. Shown
in dotted lines to the right is the proposed addition of Teachers College. A new look will be created
for the campus by planting trees, shrubs, flowers, grass and by widening sidewalks constructed to
give ready access to campus buildings from Love Memorial Library.
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Of New Building Program
"The little red schoolhouse stands
by the road
A ragged beggar sunning . . ."
The days of that little red
schoolhouse are over.
Students at the University of
Nebraska can verify this" fact by
looking at the newest building on
campus Burnett hall, pictured
above. According to J. S. Black
man, director of buildings and
grounds, the hall cost approx
imately $512,000, slightly more
than a little schoolhouse.
The building, a sister to An
drews hall, was started one and a
half years ago, in June, 1946. It
has been completed and will be
open for classrooms this fall.
Eight Departments Share.
Classes to be held in the new
building will be philosophy, his
tory, math, modern languages,
graduate social work and anthro
pology, with the school of jour
nalism occupying the top floor
for another new building. En
and the journalism photography
lab part of the basement.
Burnett hall will not have the
annoying "squeak, squeak" char
acteristic of the floors of old Uni
versity hall, which is being vtorn
down. The floors are concrete
with a finishing of asphalt tile.
The steel-framed hall holds
classrooms, one lecture room with
a capacity of 200 people, 65 offices
and 12 laboratories.
The building is 238 feet across
the front and 67 feet deep from
north to south. It is 883,700 cubic
feet.
Burnett hall was named in
honor of a previous chancellor of
the University.
Difficulties
In Housing
Predicted
Early indications are that stu
dent housing at the University
will again be a serious problem
this fall and University housing
officials are seeking help from
Lincoln residents.
Edward H. Smith, director of
student housing for men, said
more than 300 freshmen students
have applied for dormitory rooms.
Even though more dormitory
space for men is available this
year, the dormitories have rooms
for only 60 of the 300.
Smith is confident that quar
ters can be found for all students
but he is anxious to line up avail
able rooms now in order to avoid
a last-minute rush. Freshmen
students are due on the campus
Sept. 9, a week before the formal
opening of school.
Call Housing Office.
Lincoln people who can accom
modate men students are being
urged by Smith to list their
rooms now with the housing of
fice, 2-7631, extension 4100.
Miss Elsie Ford Piper, assistant
dean of women who handles stu
dent housing for women, zzud her
correspondence indicates there
will be more freshmen women at
the university this fall than in
1947. She, too, is eager for list
ings. Her office phone is 2-7631,
extension 4113.
Last year, Miss Piper said, the
response from Lincoln residents
was excellent and saved the day
as far as housing for women stu
dents was concerned.
"We will be grateful for help
from Lincoln residents again this
year," she said. "We will have
about 250 students to place in pri
vate homes."
Campus Gets
Shave, Haircut
For Fall Term
The University is dressing up
for its fall engagements with
you. However, your first glimpse
of the grounds facing south from
the Social Sciences and Love li
brary buildings may come as
something of a blow.
Hence this explanation. The
tearing up of the sidewalk and
surrounding turf is all part of a
landscaping program for beautify
ing the campus. Trees are being
removed and new ones planted;
new sidewalks to fit the contours
of the grounds are being laid; re
sodding is being completed as rap
idly as is possible.
This is the first phase of a
campus beautification program
that has been pending for a good
many years. So don't let that first
impression throw you.
The project has been started in
the section of the campus where
buildings stand as memorials to
men to whom the University
owes much. The Don L. Love
Memorial library is the center of
this area.
All the landscaping that is now
in operation and being planned
was made possible by the dona
tion of funds by the Cooper foun
dation for landscaping purposes.
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