Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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1 3 . Sh i . I 5 . ,H T. E I , 4. I i f I Z I I 5 . f A 23 E . j '84. 5 - LEA- HINE- L. WESTFALL: 5 . '85 N. P. FOSTER. V J. P- MILLIGAN. . . AZOR THURSTON. . . . ,.,. , ,,, .,... . ...- ,......-..,.-. I I SPECIAL STUDENTS. 5 I P- C- SMITH- MIINNIE E. BIRD. C SARAH A. SMITH. E ' E. ..., . ..-.,,,.,,.,,.. , ,vu , W ' E V PREPARATORY AND IRREGULAR. I A C. M. ALBAUGH. EMMA LEHNER. I. BIXLER. ED. H. COLVINT. 7. W. CONOWAY. T. E. COURTRIGHT. C.. DICKEY. +WM. A. DOBYNS. +M. T. DOZER. RWM. D. FRAZEE. i S. E. FLOYD. A 3 ' C. N. HASKINS. H TFRANK E. HILL. I +P. W. MARTIN. +H. M. MINTON. GEORGE L. MOR'1'ON. N. MYERS. f. A. MCMURRAY,Al. TJ F. OSBORN. 'TORANGE E. OXER. EMANUEL REICHENBACII CHARLES SXVICKARD. THEODORE H. TARBOX. GEORGE M. WELLS. 3 . W. T. PIEILMAN. TH. A. VVOODS- TC. L. LANE. TS. P. WATT. Em'F13C?5I37C . . 5 OFFICERS. 5 FLOYD DAVIS, Preszkierzt. J. P. MILLIGAN, Wke P1'esz'cz'eIzf. . SERN P.'WATT, Secretarjf. EMMA LEHNER, Cor. Secrezmgf. W. CONOWAY, T1'mszw'e1'.- W. BROTHERTON5 C7fZ'l'2'C. BELLE SWICKARD, Hz'starz'an. H. A. VVOODS, Lz'bm1'z'mz. C. R. VANDERBERG, Sergeant-at-Arms. I E I I i 1 I I

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declined during the Spring of I878,'3l'1d the college year of 1878-79 was the darkest one in its history. The mem- bership rapidly decreased until but I3 remained, interest lagged, and night after night not even the small quorum necessary, was present. On these occasions the usual custom was to hold short meetings on the University front door steps. Gaps occur in the minutes reaching over three months. Concluding that no hopes could be entertained of coping successfully with its great rival until they possessed facilities equal toits, a committee was appointed in May 1879, Which, upon presenting these views to the Trustees, ksecured.,from.this body its present hall, the counterpart of Alcyone hall. ' This was the first step in advance. But Horton hall was then far from being what it is now. It was simply aigreat ba-re room, which had been used by the Military department, and -was surrounded by a long row of blackboards. w The next great step was the purchasing of an elegant carpet, and the kalsomining of the hall, and about this time the vexed question of the admission of ladies, which had all but wrecked the Society in the preceding year, was linallyisettled by the admission of six ladies on the evening of january 30, 1880, a step which the Society has never regretted. Interest is unllagging, and work was never better. - The active membership is now 47, and when it is stated that the members- in- the past two and a half years have invested over Boob ,in the Society, one may gain an idea of ld 't. The work of improve- the interest inswhicrh they ho 1 ment still goes forward ments were excellent, especially the last, and everything l' fture forthe Society, a now points toward a briliant u future beside which the past ,shall appear dull indeed. . The two last Society commence-