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

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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

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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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public places. They gave the money that Santa Glaus brought them for Christ- mas, and earned whatever they could by selling things to their friends and neighbors. The faculty helped too. They gave a stunt, The School at Cracker ' s Bend, ' ' and skipped around merrily as naughty little children. The Man Who Says What ' s What had a big thermometer with red mer- cury in it put up in the chapel and every time some one gave $1,000 the mercury climbed a degree and on New Year ' s Eve it reached the top and would have spilled over if the Man Who Says What ' s What hadn ' t stopped the campaign. When the girls came back after Christmas vacation they had a half holiday to celebrate. But that is another story. Best Beloved. And the faculty helped too. And now comes the Almost-So Story, about the Gym. All the time they were talking about Endowment the Man Who Says What ' s What was telling them they needed a new gymnasium too, so that their arms and legs and things could keep pace with their, satiable curiosity, which was in their heads and might topple them over when they wanted to go to the reel drama or the ten- cent store. Then, one day, this same Man Who Says What ' s What said that the girls in the school were going to have a new Gym, and that it already had one part which would go to make up its internals, for some good, kind man had given it a Swimming Pool. Then all the little would-be mermaids in the school grew very, very enthusiastic indeed, because you knew that meant. Best Beloved, that al- most the most expensive part of the Gym was a sure ' nough sure-thing, and the rest of the Gym, which would only cost several thousand dollars, would be a mere nothing to the Man Who Says What ' s What. 11