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£1 million is needed to finish this job

By H. J. Summers

When are Queenslanders going to realise that in the new University at St. Luica they have one of the grandest conceptions of its kind in the world?

It has won international praise while yet only half-completed.

If Queensland has any sense of values there will be no slackening until the whole of this magnificent plan is brought to reality.

It comes seldom to a community to make for itself a complete university. Some of the great universities of Europe took centuries to build.

At St. Lucia, as if in recompense for the cramped and scattered existence our University has lived for 40 years, we have the opportunity to work out a finished ideal. Let us not miss it.

It is more than 14 years since the foundation stone was laid. The constructional time-table has been upset by war and the

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University reports new demand

Professions replace Arts

Professional courses are replacing Arts as the most important faculty in Universities.

This is stated in the Queensland University Senate report presented to State Parliament yesterday.

The report shows most students now want to be doctors, scientists, engineers, or dentists.

On over-all enrolment figures, the Arts faculty, with 731 enrolments, was the most important in 1950.

But 589 of these were external students, who were already engaged in outside jobs and were studying Arts in their spare time.

Enrolments for day students studying full-time were:- Medicine 558, science 271, engineering 234, dentistry 233, arts 142, and commerce 65.

The Senate says in its report that Universities are concerned about the decline in the number of students taking Arts, “or engaged in the study of what is sometimes referred to as the Humanities.”

Has big part

The report continues that the University is playing an increasing part in Queensland’s

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In the 1920s the growing University of Queensland had to look for a more spacious campus as its original site in George Street, Brisbane, had limited room for expansion. In 1927, James O’Neil Mayne and his sister, Mary, provided a grant of approximately £50,000 to the Brisbane City Council to acquire 274 acres of land in St Lucia and provided it to the University of Queensland as its permanent home.

Lack of finance delayed development of the St Lucia campus. Hence, the construction of the university’s first building in St Lucia only began in 1938. It was later named the Forgan Smith Building, after the premier of the day and it was completed in 1939. During World War II, the Forgan Smith Building was used as a military base and it served first as advanced headquarters for the Allied Land Forces in the South West Pacific.

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Opened in 1939, the University of Queensland Medical School is an imposing, three-storey, red facebrick building in a Renaissance style occupying a commanding position on the northern ridge of a sloping triangular-shaped site of over six acres in Herston Road, Brisbane adjacent to the western boundary of the Royal Brisbane Hospital.

A wide sweep of concrete stairs arrives at the main pedimented, temple-front portico entrance containing six giant order columns in a Doric order sitting on a rusticated base of arches framing the porch entrance. Two large decorative bronze lamps flank the central arch entrance to the portico which is marked by a large scroll keystone lettered above with the words “University of Queensland”.

The building is symmetrical about this entrance and rests on a rendered rusticated base, has regular bays of plain, flat-arched sash windows with rendered sills to each level and an entablature containing large

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