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Literary Societies OFFICERS. Pushmataha. Illini. Lee Hull, -------------- President Thomas Stanton, Vice President Imo Gillham, Secretary Sergeants at Arms. Winifrey Gregory, James Coleman, Leland Osborne. Harry Goudie, President Hortense Rodgers, Vice President Joe Degenhardt, Secretary Sergeantd at Arina. Stanley Allen, Kirk Mook, Marcus Taylor. The Contest. On April 17, 1908, a battle was fought between the tribes, Illini and Pushmataha. It was not a contest for physical prowess, with bows and arrows as weapons, but was of an intellectual nature wherein were used essays and declamations. The braves of the two tribes w'ere not so eager to fight when they learned of the new method, so in true Indian fashion, they left the squaw to do all the work. Tilton Wead was elected chief of the Illini in the essay fight, while Mayme Coleman was chief of the Pushmatahas. The battle raged fiercely for about twenty minutes and it was decided by five palefaces that the Pushmatahas had fairly earned the essay. Then came the fight with declamations as weapons. The Illini thought surely they would win with Josephine Waldrip as chief, but the Pushmatahas were equally as certain of victory with Alice Morris as their chief . Again the battle raged, but, alas! the palefaces again decided in favor of the Pushmatahas, and the Illini sadly departed with their warriors, leaving the Pushmatahas victors of the field, but they fiercely resolved that they would win in the next battle. 27
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Greetings from the University of Illinois. I felt surprised as well as honored when 1 received a letter from the editor requesting me to write an article for the '08 Tatler, concerning my university experiences. 1 might well begin by defining my position and the position of almost any Freshman entering the University of Illinois. In the first place, you are a Freshman, usually a certain obnoxious kind, in the next being a Freshman, you are supposed never to have “been no where and never to have ‘‘seen nothing;” in the last place, you must never presume to anything before an upper class man, a “Soph.” in particular. A thing that impressed me with wonder was the rapidity with which an old man” could distinguish a Freshman. I had never thought that I displayed all the greenness that was in me. but I was soon convinced that I did. Hut to get down to my subject. The editor suggesed that I might compare university life with high school life. To begin with, in the Engineering College, to which I belong, the Freshmen have eighteen and nineteen hours, the first and second semesters, respectively. An hour is defined as two hours of study, and one of laboratory work per week. Hut the recitations that you are supposed to prepare in the two hours, never take less than that, and in the case of mathematics, a five hour study, often four or five hours are required. unless a fellow is what is styled here a “shark.” The rest of the eighteen hours are taken up with draughting or shop work, where we put in the full three hours, for one credit hour. Then there is “military, and 1 think any man who has matriculated at the I'niver-sity of Illinois, would approve of whatever favorable comments I might make about it. especially after an hour and a half such as I have spent this very afternoon. Wearing a very heavy tight-fitting military uniform and carrying a sixteen pound Krag rifle with accoutrements, I chased myself with eight hundred others around a field until we were hardly able to amble home. Now if 1 were to stop here, you would set me down for a pessimist, so I shall tell you also of the fun we have. It starts about the first week of school when some Freshman takes a bath in the “Hone yard,' an evil smelling and looking little creek that makes its way through Champaign and Crbana. I shall digress a minute to tell you how the university came to be founded at Urbana. When the State Legislature asked for offers of land and money from counties which wished such an institution, Urbana sent her offer, with a picture of the grounds. 1 hru the grounds wended a magnificent stream; on the stream floated a big ship, this stream was the Hone yard on paper, while in reality the creek is the size of the one that flows by the C. A. tracks at home, though fouler a thousand times. The “Sophs ascribe the foulness of the waters of the Hone yard to the fact that 28
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