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Mysterious Case of Pearl Forcade. Nebraska's Bones. John G. Thomas P. A farm campus was established east of Lincoln in Separated from the city by an unbroken stretch of prairie, it was regarded by students to be a great distance from the main city campus. By the farm campus went beyond its own boundaries to establish an experimental station at North Platte, the first of many research centers that would serve the state in later years.
The first decade of the 20 th century saw enrollment at NU increase by a third, and by nearly 4, students were in attendance. The university began to outgrow its original four-block city campus, and in constructed a student activity center, known as the Temple Building, the first university building south of R Street. Matching funds for the construction of this building were given by petroleum magnate John D. Rockefeller, a friend of Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews.
A number of buildings from those early days survive today as reminders of this era, including Brace Laboratory, Richards Hall, and the first law college building. Growth during the war years occurred amid fierce debate in the legislature over a proposal to consolidate both campuses on the farm campus.
Put to the vote of the people in , the proposal was defeated, and work was begun anew for expansion on both campuses. The orderly development of the farm campus, under the scrutiny of Chancellor Andrews, included a number of large, buff-brick buildings arranged around a central mall.
Despite this classical arrangement, the campus retained the feel of the countryside, with its barns, livestock and test fields. City campus, on the other hand, developed in a variety of styles, experiencing rapid growth in the postwar years of the s.
Millions of visitors have passed through its massive colonnades to view astonishing displays of prehistory, including the remarkable exhibition known as Elephant Hall. The s also saw the continued rise of athletic excellence at the University of Nebraska with the construction of two large-scale sports complexes—Memorial Stadium and the Nebraska Coliseum.
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