University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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Class of 1900 Class Officers. President ------ George R. Osborn. Vice-President - - - - John F. Lawson. Secretary ------ Edwin W. Knowles. Treasurer ------ Leo V. Fairhall. Editor Robert M. Ross. Class History N the autumn of 1902, scattered here and therein more than twenty different states were a hundred and fifty young men and an occasional modest young lady with carpet bag in hand, and under one arm and old umbrella and the little shoe box -1 wrapped in newspaper, into which mother had made her last deposit from the Cupboard; each with tearful eyes were making their first steps toward their profes- sional career. Dreams, oh such dreams! as the trains centered toward Chicago. Dreams of the great metropolis with buildings so high that you could not count the stories. Dreams of the school with its laboratories, libraries and books full of big words and men who could pronounce them. Most dreams are short and so were these. In a few hours we arrived and re- ceived our introduction to the city in the following varied manner. We were bumped off of the sidewalk several times while determining just how high some of the build- ings were. We we pushed along and silenced by policemen when we required the location of the school where doctors were made. We changed street cars many times and forgetting transfers each time were com- pelled to pay so many fares. With all our troubles we arrived at P. S. safe and sound in time for the annual opening address at which time we were especially honored by Dr. Quine who invited a portion of our class who were standing to take seats on the platform with the faculty. After they were seated he turned to the audience ami said: Gentlemen, if I had known how bad it looked, I should not have done it. We attended classes regularly for a week and at each lecture hour our congenial friend Browne would march in and tell us he was very sorry but the lecturer had not as yet returned from his summer outing. One day during the second week Dr. Don bee Shaw appeared. lie wore a white gown and carried a skeleton both of which were new to us. After we found that the professors were coming back and starting classes we held our first election and placed Kane in the presidential chair. Kane was a good fellow lint he was not able and lie liked the girls too much and cared too little for Roberts Rules of Order as some in the class did it was a constant source of cloudy swelling. Kane resigned, the class accepted ami put I ' orteus in to the chair. A feeling of good fellows hip predominated and a start made toward that which our class so much needed — working and acting as one body. During the early part of the second half we made our initial kick. Our work in anatomy was unsatisfactory. We couldn ' t stand the Price. The class wanted Shaw and we got him one day and one day only. lie gave US One of hie little heart- to-heart talks seasoned with brimstone and hydrogen disuephide. Price w a no con- sideration after that. Buttinski .1 Polish word meaning a prominent student; asforexampli Miss Yampoisk 100

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Underwood, Frank VanKirk, George Hiram Wagner, James Alois Wallace, Eugene Walsh, Joseph Mark Weideman, William (ieoige, M.D. Weir, Silas Wilkin, B.S. Welch, Michael Charles, M.D. White, Eleanor Virginia Gwynne Inman,M.D. Wentz, Herbert Bertram Werner, Charles Frank Wilkinson, Carl Hixson, M.D. Willits, Ira Raymond Willmering, Sena Louisia Winsett, Clifford Vane, Ph.G., Ph.B. Wissig, Simon Leo Woltmann, Frederick Woolston, Wesley John Cook County Hospital Quiz Class. Alt, ( ieoige Ludwig Dowd, James Edward Higgins, Samuel George, B.S. Hoag, Robert Baldwin Hoeve, Hubertus J. H. Jerger, Joseph A. Levitin, Emil Zola Magahy, Charles Albert Palm, Carl August Parke, George Ranseen, Carl Matthew, B.S. Steffen, Richard Charles Vanatta, Fay McVey Weyer, Ross Steele Willhite, Frank Vanatta PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS ' SURGICAL PREPARATION ROOM. c aetstype with « shot-gun. — The Plexus Printer, 99

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W. L. Smith was chosen president for the sophomore year. Nothing beyond the usual took place. Gehrman occasionally smiled and then flunked the fellow on whom he smiled. Fantus engraved his name in the memory of some seventy members when he read the flunk list right out before the girls. I ' a and Ma Eckley demanded an essay on every organ of the human body except the umbilicus and then, to square matters, invited the class out to see the baby. The present year our class numbers one hundred and eighty-five with Geo R. ( (shorn as president. We suspect we are a little noisy on exam. days. We know we are not afraid to leave the class room when a Prof is late. We are sure we gave the seniors a most delightful prom. But away down in our hearts we have a feelin ' we are doomed in neurology. Now gentlemen, I have told you all I know about the present junior class. If you wish to know anything more just ask Fomon, he knows. W. B. Su ers. THE PRESIDENT S HOUSE. ' ' . . in- in) ' ' ' . — Shakespeare, 101