Eastern Michigan University - Aurora Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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lid 5 lfx 341 QTEK? :XX Q 41 Q i TW Q ff 'ATT Q Y 1' X le f , ' 1911. J I Fall term began Tuesday September 26. -ll X S C A ieception, Saturday, September 30. l Thanksgiving iecess, Thursday, November 30. I - e A ln ffgf f lllili ' Vs? it 'S r Q e1 X 'Yi-I .'., 1 Y 117. Q 4 . . A l V C , ii' Fall term closed Friday, December 15. 1912. lfVinte1' term began XWednesday, january 3. VVashington's Birthday, holiday, Thursday, February 22, Winter term closed March 22. Spring term began Tuesday, April 2. Memorial Day, holiday, Thursday, May 30. Junior Class Day, Friday, June 14. Baccalaureate Address, Sunday evening, june 16. junior Degree exercises, Monday morning, june 17. Senior Class exercises, Monday afternoon, june 17. Ivy Day exercises, Monday afternoon, June 17. Campus Songfest, Monday evening, June 17. Conservatory Commencement, Monday evening, june 17. Alumni Registration and Reunion, Tuesday morning, june 18. Sixtieth Anniversary Commemorating Exercises, Tuesday afternoon June 18. President's Reception, Tuesday evening, june 18. Commencement Exercises, Wednesday morning, June 19. Commencement Dinner, VVednesday noon, June 19.

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Glrneral Cllnnivnfn Foreword ---- The State Board of 'Education - A History of our Alma Mater - An Appreciation of President Jones The Faculty ---- The Aurora Board The Seniors - The Degrees The juniors - The Alumni Literary - Organizations - - Student's 'Christian Association Oratorical Association - Sororities - - Fraternities Sectional Clubs Athletics -A Class Rivalry - jokes 12 14 15 21 25 82 84 146 155 161 165 173 175 187 205 229 239 257 279 289

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Gbur 3'Hnrm11nrh The three captions: unity, what we might well designate as organized informality rep- resentative of the college's activities, and accessibility, aptly describe the three-fold aim which the -present board set before itself when it undertook the prolonged and difhcult duty of preparing the Nineteen-Hundred-Twelve Aurora ' The anniversary character of the col1ege's history this year has been constantly lliept in mind. The illustrated history of our Alma Mater, with occasional touches of istoric 1 t - ' ' ' ' A n erest scattered throughout the following pages emphasize this fact. While the retirement of our esteemed President Lewis I-1 Jones, after a decade of valued andtde-voted service in behalf of our educational welfare has called from us the voluntary ilgdigatilgn of this volume in his honor, together withlthe appreciative sketch of. his 1 e y rof. D. H. Roberts, Superintendent of the Training School, who has officially and socially been intimately in touch with President Jones. The commemoration of the establishing of our Alma Mater and the -culmination of the successful administration of its retiring President, presents the general student body, and the graduating classes in particular, with an opportunity to congratulate themselves on the enjoyment of attendance in this year. Around this dual fact, conse- quently, the Aurora has been constructed. The organization of the material has been along somewhat different lines than heretofore. The increased num-ber of pages and careful economy in the use of space has given ,better chance of enlarging upon some sections and also of introducing entirely new features calculated to heighten the interest of the faculty, students and Alumni in a published record of college activities. The volume contains the portraits of the State Board of Edu-cation, who are in actual charge of our and similar institutions. This has seldom been inserted in the Aurora. In addition to a short sketch of each building being given, a personal glimpse of the head of each department at his desk before the class, has been secured with more or less extended accounts of each faculty member. Believing that true democracy demands that ea-ch individual shall be given his just due this year the Aurora Board decided to allow room for tl1e enumeration of activities in which the student whose photograph was given, was concerned. To better acomplish this, this year the portraits were arranged in vertical order, but in such a manner that the portraits on the right and left strips on each page alternated, thus avoiding confusion and adding to the symmetry of the page. The Degree and Junior classes, and the Alumni have been courteously dealt with, each being given the number of pages it desired. The Literary section. instead of being a mere -collection of essays or descriptions -by persons selected by the Board, consists of one page excerpts of the three orations rendered by those persons who won the right to represent the college at a regular oratorical contestg as well as extracts of the class day participants' productions, whether it be a salutatory, a history. a poem or a valedictory. by persons chosen for their particular duties by the Senior class. In this way. 'we think we have secured a literary section that is really representative of the college in general and the graduates in particular. Although the department of Organizations has in general remained the same as heretofore, a new sub-section, Sectional Clubs, has been set aside to include all societies whose chief cause for organization lies in the fact that its members have come from the same vicinity. In the department of Athletics .it has been the -constant aim of the Board ,to exalt no one individual, but rather to give his just due to each member who helped to make this phase of college activity. Here we wish to call attention to what we think is an especially good feature-namely, the action pictures of the players in the various forms of indoor and outdoor athletics. We respectfully acknowledge the kind use of the Science Department. camera, and are very much indebted to the capable services of .Joy V.. Wnlgle, '12, without whose photographic .aid these pictures would have been an impossibility. Elsewhere in the volume I. L. Fisk, 12 B. Pd., has also kindly allowed us to use a number of pictures snapped. on the campus, for which we express our gratitude. It is co-operation of this kind that makes the getting out of the iAurora a distinct pleasure. An innovation is the publish- ing of the new Normal Field Song, of which Mr. Fisk 'and -George P. Becker, 12. are the joint author and composer, who have made us their de'btors by'permttt1ng usnto use it as a feature in this department. An entirely newldeparture is that of pla-cmg all that form of athletic rivalry which can properly be designated as a contest between CIRISSCS under the heading Class Rivalry. The splendid struggle -between the Seniors and juniors, unprecedented with its resultant enthusiasm, seemed to us to necessitate and merit this distinction. Thus in reality. the 'iiAti1iCtICS department has become larger than ever before, and an added dignity given to the Senior-junior-inter-class meets. We appreciate the assistance of the officers of 'both -classes in their efforts to make this new feature a success. The Jokes section has been curtailed in its number of pages. We feel that it is in reality an invasion of the field- of. tllC'FOf11l3i news. which can furnish college humor which will be both temporary in its va ue an .up-.to- date in its point and pun. lAnd as the large number of students at our irrstlltutipn makes it practically impossible for more than a few to see the point of any J0 Qi tae Board has followed the policy of selecting only those which are general and vglnl e easily understood. For this purpose several full-size page cartoons have fbeen rawlp, and black and white top-liners . have been secured to grace the top o every Jo e page, all of which merit general interest.