The Yucca, Yearbook of North Texas State Teacher's School, 1924 Page: 17
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bCje *,ealitation of Our -reamen
ROME was not built in a day; it would not have been much
of a city if it had been. It is only ephemeral moving-picture
cities that are built in a day; and in the night they disappear like
Arab camps. Founded on the material growth of twenty years of
College history, and conceived as a public edifice to serve the
State of Texas for many generations, the Administration-Audi-
torium building of the Teachers College is not the kind of monu-
ment that could be built in a day. An entire year was allowed for
the process of erection-the year 1923-1924, and it was the privilege
of the student body of this year to watch its progress, step by
step. The old building, ivy-clad walls, cracks and all, was razed,
the materials systematically stored away, and on its site excavations
were made far below the old foundation stratum, and the huge
concrete footings were poured. Upon this foundation is being
erected, as we write, the skeleton framework, gaunt and bare at
first, and giving only a suggestion of the magnitude and magnificence
of the building that is to be.
The building was made possible by an appropriation of the
Thirty-eighth Legislature of Texas in the sum of $300,000.00.
The building, when completed, is to be three stories in height and is
to be made of face brick and trimmed in terra cotta. It is to con-
tain, of course, the administrative offices, occupying the entire
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