2. The Board having thus agreed on a proper site for the
University, to be reported to the Legislature, proceed to the second
of the duties assigned to them -- that of proposing a plan for its
buildings -- and they are of opinion that it should consist of
distinct houses or pavilions, arranged at proper distances on each
side of a lawn of a proper breadth, and of indefinite extent, in one
direction, at least; in each of which should be a lecturing room,
with from two to four apartments, for the accommodation of a
professor and his family; that these pavilions should be united by a
range of dormitories, sufficient each for the accommodation of two
students only, this provision being deemed advantageous to morals, to
order, and to uninterrupted study; and that a passage of some kind,
under cover from the weather, should give a communication along the
whole range. It is supposed that such pavilions, on an average of
the larger and smaller, will cost each about $5,000; each dormitory
about $350, and hotels of a single room, for a refectory, and two
rooms for the tenant, necessary for dieting the students, will cost
about $3500 each. The number of these pavilions will depend on the
number of professors, and that of the dormitories and hotels on the
number of students to be lodged and dieted.
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