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 g K one od work to suceeasfull a few yean he had secured idway front on the south or the entire distance covered e holding! on the north sidiabout three-qaarten of a mile. hen these lands south of the Ltuancr were all turned over Diversity, it was mt tie extraordinary purchases nor tdsout. ice had. toother, ca lit -r llion, two hundn and twenty-nine thousand i n. ! red and seventy-five dollar As has been pointed out this was step in expansion taken by thfounder himself on bb own i: ire. Although there was amor the Trustees more or las know!- Ige of what he was having don. no one bad any positive assurance lat the purchased blocks would* given to the ere purchase*! t-.r Mr Kockef jr. They belonged to him to do ith as he pleased. 'I rty did not ask Urn for them. The ir. bases and the successive gift were bis own acts, quite ur iicnced by anyone connected th the Univrr. When these iscs were added to the U^Hjf ground* the new Chicago unpus was found to comprise nt quite a hundred acres. As this great step in tbe tension of the University bad been ikcn, not by the Trustees, but) under, so also was the ezt one. In 1910 on his own flUative once more he opened the ay for further enlargement the University's work. Before le ton million-dollar gift, the niversity. under the prudent and ise administration of Presides Judson, got on without defi- ut this was made possible onlyjy the most careful managfm* lut it was this wise and careful lanagement that commanded the trong approval and awakened te confidence of the Founder, and K! to his final gift. That y y many things. It not nly enabled the President and 'rustees to place the w<> titution on a new basis of ilness and freedom and pov. but it also opened the way for jrthcr steps in advance. It mde possible new additions to the iculties. President Judson time, had mean- evelop the College of Commeie and Administration. This he id gradually but steadily i onward. The F<mn<: nal gift made possible the buffing of the concrete wall around tagg Field and of the great gradstand. It provided the means