University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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temporarily organized and laid plans for reunions throughout the state so as to bring the alumni and former students in closer touch with the undergraduates and inform them of the launching of the Greater University movement. Through the medium of these county cluTxs, graduates, alumni, and undergraduates were brought into closer touch and made to feel that the University was a real, live thing, with inspirations, needs, and desires. During the holi- days over fifty counties held reunions and a great revival of the Iowa University spirit was shown. To the alumni these reunions brought home a sense of what the University really means, what its growth has been and what its needs, aims and aspirations are. The undergraduate was deeply impressed by the love the alumni showed for the Uni- versity, impressed with a feeling of joy that he was a real part of that great mass of active feelings and eeds, a real University. In arousing this spirit, this interest, this loyalty for the University, the Greater University Committee has performed a service of invaluable worth to those connected with the University and the commonwealth at large. Determined to keep the movement thoroughly before the students and alumni, at its last meeting before the holidays the Greater University Committee laid plans for giving a monster University dinner January 18, 1908. Success in every detail marked this first annual University dinner. The crowd far exceeded expectations and nearly a hundred were turned away from the door after the huge floor of the gymnasium was crowded with the closely packed tables. It was an informal, democratic social gathering, where students, alumni and faculty met on a plane of absolute equality and comradeship, and where the spirit was pri- marily the Iowa spirit. But aside from the general success of the whole affair there are even more important features to be considered. This one gathering undoubtedly established the University dinner as an annual affair. Besides this it accomplished the crystallization of this Greater Univeisity spirit which had been abroad in the school for the months preceding. It made the slogan Always for Iowa , seem something definite. It provided at least one big, informal, democratic annual gathering of the whole University where the devotion we feel for our University finds adequate expression. It brought the University together on an occasion where the University was the centre of interest in the minds of everyone; where everyone met on an equality and everyone realized that this is a University alive and full of the vital forces of young womanhood and young manhood which, rightly directed will make our University second to none. Even as the HAWKEYE goes to press the Greater University Committee are planning further steps to strengthen this great movement so well begun. Before the spring recess comes efforts are to be made to organize county clubs in the counties where no organization exists at the present time. It is the hope that this movement may be literally state wide and that in every corner of this great state the Greater University movement will be alive and vigorous, pointing to the University as the culminating point of education in the state. Another step planned by the committee to unify this great net-work of organizations is a uniform constitution which shall bind them together, with the Univer. sity as the head of the organization. Still another step is the plan for a great rally to arouse the coeds to the need of a Woman ' s Building where the girls of the University may be cared for, as befits them and where their now scattered interests may be gathered up and crystal- lized into one expression of loyalty for the University. Hand in hand with this movement is a plan for securing a grant of land from the University upon which to build a club-house for the men, where they may all meet on an equal basis in a social way for the promotion of good fellowship and the fostering of a true University spirit. It is such places, and conditions that lea-l to the forming of those friendships which make college life the beautiful thing it is. It is here that the stronger ones impart their helping influence and out of such contact a well-rounded, well-trained type of Iowa man and Iowa woman would be developed, who would be a powerful influence in any community, and through whom the real import of University training might be realized.

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; CLEMENT L. LOEHR Editor-in-Chief t JAMES L. OAKKS ril Kn.i ' i Manager -, J. C. HoLLMAX j ROBERT N. JOXES J- Associate Editors CHESTER A. BUCKXER ' KLisLE (T HOWELL Art Editor FAX SAXDOE Ass ' t Art Editor WILLIAM L. CARBERRY Humorous Editor CATHARINE E. LOVELL Ass ' t Humorous Editor ELLA GRISSELL Literary Editor FRED N. .JOHAXSEX Athlftic Editor L. L. STECKMEST Ass ' t Athlftic Editor ALICE MAXXEY Alumni Editor B. L. JAOOBSOX Fr MM Editor CHARLE PENXINGROTH Military Editor RAYMOXD E. SMITH Pan-HfU nic Editor BURR A. BR iwx ' . Editor CARL D. KIGER Lilfral Arts Editor FRED C. HUEBXER Law Editor RALSTMN W. SLEETER Mtdiciix Editor HOWARD O. YOUNG - jMiV Editor J. H. BARRJCK D -i 1i 1rii Editor H. H. GIBB.S Pharmacy Editor J. K. GRIFFIN Applied 8 Editor ELIZABETH HRUSKA Music Editor WILLIAM E. PI-RCELI Late Manafu r A. P. THOMPSON- Medicine Mana j r ALBERT G. McKEowx Dentistry Manager J. Q. ADAMS Appli 1 S, if nee Manager . I..M. 1 i i..| i i i i i i i i i i i i i I i i i i i i i i i i i i i . -- X 11