GENERAL INFORMATION 9

reation rooms, quarters for student publications and other undergraduate
activities, and lodgings for transient alumni. The Y. M. C. A. dormitory,
the University Club Building, and the Administration Building, head-
quarters of the business organization of the University, are also located in
the lower campus district.

Westward from the main group of buildings are situated the Univer-
sity Extension and Home Economics Building (1912), Washburn Qbserv-
atory (1878), the medical group, the Wisconsin High School (1913), and,
extending for some distance beyond these, the numerous buildings and
experimental plots of the College of Agriculture, including barns, green-
houses, and a large judging pavilion (1908) containing an oval amphi-
theater with a seating capacity of two thousand people and an arena cap-
able of accommodating an additional two thousand. The medical group
consists at present of the Wisconsin General Hospital (1924), the Service
Memorial Institutes Building (1928), the Bradley Memorial Hospital
(1918), the Infirmary (1918) and the Nurses’ Dormitory (1925). On the
lake shore back of the principal agricultural buildings is a new group of
men’s buildings, Adams Hall, Tripp Hall, and the Refectory (1926), in the
vicinity of which are located the intra-mural athletic fields for men.

In the district to the south of the medical and agricultural buildings
are located the central heating plant (1908) and the Service Building
(1911, 1924), and, separated from them by a group of private store
buildings, the Forest Products Laboratory (1909) and the first of a new
group of engineering shops (1920). These border a forty-two acre area
known as Camp Randall, which includes a large concrete stadium with
running track, a field house and archery and hockey grounds for women,
baseball diamonds, tennis courts, and the like. Here is being constructed
(1930) an athletic field house, containing ample facilities for most of the
major sports.

Spread for nearly a mile along the crest and on the slopes of an
irregular ridge, bordering the southern shore of the largest of Madison’s
four lakes, the grounds of the University are of marked natural beauty and
afford many rare views out over the broad expanses of water, farm lands,
and city dwellings. Of special attraction are the many choice groups -of
evergreens, the rows of towering elms, and the willow drive fringing the
lake-shore. The lake itself provides unexcelled facilities for swimming,
boating of all sorts, and, during the late winter, skating, while the hills
make possible two other forms of winter sports not everywhere common,
skiing and tobogganing.

The grounds have a special archaelogical interest because of the
presence of several Indian effigy mounds which are found in abundance in
and near Madison. These are small mounds of earth in the form of ani-
mal and other totems, made by the Winnebago and allied native tribes in
prehistoric periods, unique in being found only in southern Wisconsin and
along the boundaries of the states to the west and south.