Creighton University - Bluejay Yearbook (Omaha, NE)

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TRADITIONAL CARTOON A SPIRIT FROM THE PAST HE Colleges of Medicine and Pharmacy were not established until later and are not to be described here because everyone knows all about them, and besides, the followmg mstructions to freshmen wall give space to those two valuable professions. However, we may add, due to the fact that the College of Medicine lay somewhat outside the University, a number of the pioneer students were caught and scalped by the Indians. This quaint custom has come down to us today and is practiced by the upper class- men upon the members of the R. O. T. C. who frequent the clinic.

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Q)istracted from the dKistory of G. . Z HE excavation work on the foundation of Creighton University was 2J commenced by a group of workmen at 7:15 a. m., November 5th, 1879. They worked hard, but were well paid by Ed. Creighton, who at the time was not quite certain whether he would have the work on the building completed if an oil well gushed forth in the basement. Needless to say, he died before the well appeared to distort the appearance of the campus, and further destruction was left to the annual influx of vandalistic freshmen whose taste for knowledge often became perverted and they, at such limes, thought to satisfy them by other means. Count John A. Creighton, having demonstrated his power in the financial line, was looking for new worlds to conquer and decided that to enlist in the services of our University was a task befitting his prowess. He was a good fighter, and before his death saw Creighton University a thriving center of education and the cornfields and prairie, which were once its surroundings, changed to a city of homes and progress. Further history records that the College of Law was established in 1877 in what is now known as the Arthur Building. This college was moved to its new location in 1 92 1 . The Liberal Arts students wonder why it was not moved further than it was; however, we are not to settle such arguments — our object is to start them. It was only through a pull that the Dents moved to their new quarters at the same time and, after four years of rigid drilling, the freshmen who helped baptize that emporium of cuss and bicuspids are about to receive their degrees. Ill

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instructions to freshmen EFORE starting for Omaha, the student should procure a Bluejay and prepare himself by reading the neatly bound booklet of some 400 pages, telhng what he shouldn ' t do. For freshmen desiring more in- formation, this monograph has been written. 1 . Be sure to bring the family Bible and a complete genealogical record in order that you may correctly answer all questions asked you by the registrar. 2. The Union Station is where you leave the train. Try to pretend you have been there before. 3. Take the first car going North and ask the conductor how you arrive at Twenty-sixth and California. He may tell you. 4. Get off the car when the conductor tells you. If he was correct, you are in front of St. John ' s Church and across the street is the Beanery. Don ' t go near that place, the writer lived there once, and all the students resid- ing there that year passed their exams. 5. The big building behind you and to the left is the Arts College. Go and inquire for Mr. B. A. Kennedy and give him your checkbook. He will tell you to go to St. John ' s Hall. That ' s a better place than the Beanery. 6. There will be other Freshmen around and they will be lonesome, too. Ask one of them to go for a walk. Go West on California Street.