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<\/a>One of the artifacts of this debate is this map of possible library sites.\u00a0 Each was accompanied by a list of pros and cons.\u00a0 Location one – south of the President’s house and the guest house, was “near dorms and classrooms” but might “necessitate the removal [of] good trees.”\u00a0 Location two – just north of the current location – would “crowd Duke & East dorms.”\u00a0 Location three, despite “good access from [the] road” was both “too far from dorms and classrooms” and “would cause removal of Jackson Court.”\u00a0 Other locations were too far from classrooms, and one – directly across Concord road from campus “present[ed] road crossing problem for students.”\u00a0 The committee went on to note that “solution of tunnel or bridge could be expensive.”<\/p>\n
Given how much the campus has expanded since then, the thought of a bridge over or tunnel under Concord is a bit laughable, but it’s interesting to imagine what life on campus might have been like – and how we might have used space differently – had the library been placed somewhere else.<\/p>\n