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LANDSCAPE PLAN FOR STATE COLLEGE GROUNDS 
PERSPECTIVE DESIGN FOR PENNSYLVANIA STATE COLLEGE GROUNDS. 
Charles N. Lowrie, Landscape Architect. 
view in detail the whole college plant out the necessity of covering the same 
in all its varied departments with- ground twice. 
STATE REGULATION of BILL BOARDS 
There is scarcely a situation where 
an adequate plan for broad future 
growth and development is more nec- 
essary than for a college grounds, 
where growth is necessarily slow, gen- 
erally being determined by the state of 
the college exchequer. 
Charles N. Lowrie, the New York 
landscape architect, has prepared an il- 
lustrated report and plans for the cam- 
pus and grounds of the Pennsylvania 
State College that is well adapted to 
the development of the property over 
a long term of years and in a great 
variety of contingencies. It has been 
officially adopted by the board of trus- 
tees. 
The central feature of the plan is a 
grouping in a “civic center" of the 
strictly public buildings, such as the 
library, lecture halls, laboratories, etc., 
in a terraced quadrangle, through the 
center of which a simple dignified open 
lawn effect is contemplated, with shad- 
ed walks and driveways along the sides 
and ends giving convenient access to 
all the buildings. The lawns are on 
three levels separated preferably by ter- 
races, with masonry steps for the paths 
and inclined roadways. Two fine sites 
for statues are offered at the intersec- 
tion of the axes on the main terrace. 
At about equal distances from this cen- 
tral group to the right and left and 
above and below, and closely connected 
with it by paths and driveways, are six 
proposed secondary groups, all tribu- 
tary to it, but each complete in itself, 
such as the department of agriculture, 
women’s buildings, dormitories, etc. 
A carefully designed system of drive- 
ways and paths has been provided, and 
it is recommended that they be lined 
out with young elm trees at an early 
date. They have been designed in such 
a manner as to tie the surrounding 
groups with the central group ; and also 
to supply a connecting drive passing 
through or beside the six outlying 
groups, uniting each to the other while 
at the same time forming a complete 
circuit of the college. Thus a stran- 
ger arriving at the railroad station could 
be taken directly to any objective point, 
or he could, by a more circuitous route. 
A bill introduced in the General As- 
sembly of Rhode Island, giving cities 
and towns the power to regulate out- 
door advertising and to levy and col- 
lect license ta.xes upon such advertis- 
ing, aims an effective blow at the bill- 
board nusiance. The bill has been in- 
dorsed by the American Civic Asso- 
ciation as well as liy the Rhode Island 
League of Improvement Societies ; and 
a similar measure is to be brought be- 
fore all the State Legislatures which 
are in session this year. The bill in 
full is as follows : 
"An Act Granting to Cities and Towns 
Power to Regulate Outdoor .Adver- 
tising, to Levy and Collect License 
Ta.xes in Connection Therewith, and 
to Fix and Collect Penalties for Vio- 
lation of Regulations Made Under 
Its .Authority. 
“It is enacted by the (Jcncral Assembly 
as follozvs : 
“Section 1. The term ‘outdoor ad- 
vertising’ as used in this act shall in 
elude all such advertising so displayed 
as to attract the attention of persons 
on any public highway or while in the 
vehicle of any common carrier or in 
any station of such carrier or while in 
any public building, public park, public 
grounds or other public place, whether 
such advertising be by means of print- 
ing, writing, pictures or a combination 
thereof, and whatever may be the 
means of display, e.xcept that it shall 
not include advertising located upon 
private property and relating e.xclusive- 
ly to the business conducted in such 
property or the sale or rental thereof. 
“Sec. In order to preserve the 
health, safety, morals, and comfort of 
the inhabitants of this state, every city 
and town thereof shall ha\'e power in 
its corporate capacity to regulate out- 
door advertising both as to the place 
where such advertising may be permit- 
ted, the character of the structures up- 
on which it may be placed and the sub- 
ject nuitter that nitty appear thereon: 
tiroz'idcd. such regulations shall be rea- 
sonable in their requirements. 
“Sec. :i. In order to more effective- 
ly e.xercise the power hereby conferred, 
it shall be lawful for such cities tind 
towns to levy and collect such license 
la.x upon outdoor tidvertising as nitty 
be necessary to defray the e.xpense of 
inspection, and to require the payment 
of the same before such ttdvertising 
may be permitted, and where the ad- 
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