MacMurray College - Tartan / Illiwoco Yearbook (Jacksonville, IL)

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n I c. 3 0 — qo.ooo ? 0.00 0 — HE C.J. 5 — o.oon 6 0,000 3dec a.H DLC lb 50.000 MO.ooo nec.lS D EC ' S — Jo.ooo Oct. 15 2.0,000 SEC.q — lo.Qon 0 = 1915 AN AL3IOST-SO STORY, OR HOW THE SWIM3IING POOL GOT A GY3I. This, Best Beloved, is an Almost-So story, but it begins ' way back with the Just-So story of how we got the Endowment. It begins ' way back before even the Just-So story was sure ' nough true. The true part will come first. Best Beloved, then the Al- most-So part is nearly another story. There was a big school in the State of Illinois, in a dream3% sleepy old city; and the school grew and grew until it was big, oh, as big as a block. And, Best Beloved, like all well-regulated schools it always needed things. So the Man Who Says What ' s What said : ' ' We must have $180,000 or we ' 11 grow little and narrow and disintegrate. And, oh. Best Beloved, that will never do ' because people came even from distant Egypt to grow big and broad and satisfy their satiable curiosities. And when the girls heard the ] Ian Who Says What ' s What (for it was a girls ' school you know). Best Beloved, they wanted to begin to show their big, broad, ' satiable interest at once so they met and de- cided to give up their sundaes and hamburgers and afternoon communion with Theda Bara and ]Mary Pickford. (You have seen those last mentioned ladies in the reel drama, I am sure.) They sang and they yelled and they shouted Endowment, and they pledged $5,900 all among themselves so that they could grow big and broad and satisfy their ' satial)Ie curiosity. And one time after the Man Who Says AVhat ' s What had persuaded a man who had $10,000 and more besides (think of that. Best Beloved), to give it, the girls in the school had a Torchlight Parade late at night, all through the town in the snow. And they kept on getting more money and more money until on June first they had all of the $180,000. But the Man Who Says What ' s What had to have even more mone.y to have his school stay a standard- ized college. That means, Best Beloved, a college 9

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Caroline A. Wilson Class of ' 73 Every noble life leaves the fibre of it inter ' oven into the fabric of the world. — Ruskin. 8

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that could satisfy people ' s satiable curiosity according to the approved methods. And on Founders ' Day (that is a feast day among these people, Best Beloved) the Man Who Says What ' s What started on a new campaign for $100,000. The girls worked this time, too, so that their satiable curiosity might con- ' •Thej put up signs in public places, tinue to be satisfied after the approved methods. They sold things; one senior even offered to sell her senior privileges. Other girls closed windows in the morning, some served things to eat, sandwiches, tea, and chocolate. All for Endowment, Best Beloved. They put up signs, telling about their wares in Telling of their wares. 10