Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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4942 - 4949 'lhflioi1Iiw'Icm5VIIabui YOLYTII' .X.YY Ill SYLLABU S A ' - I . 15 u v fgifti 525 519 4 T' 'E - . T 45 Froternities ore exclusive boording clubs which thrive most Iuxuridntly in university otmosbhere. Frdternities ore composed mostly of men. A sorority is d femole frdternity. Frdternities ore coiled Frdts. Frot is of Ldtin origin coming from the word frdter, meoning We oll drink together. Sorority comes from the some Ionguoge ond medns 'Do others before you get done. . . . Frot men weor little gold bins which ore very mysterious. They usudliy beor some dueer looking objects on them like o sndke or o Iomb, which is o secret. The owner usudliy loses them to oi foir co-ed in his senior yedr. 1914 Greeks ul-Ier First Letter Home DGGV MO: Well, I got here dll right .. . A bolicemdn told us how to get to the Elevdted Stdtion dnd the womon in the ticket window loughed like everything when I osked her for two tickets to University Ploce dnd Orrington Avenue. I know DO will kick when I send the first dudrter's bill. It come to d lot more thdn we figured from the cotologue, but I guess we con sell 1914 Syllabus N.nhnf.-nn rm-'nm hu n...L ,..,r up nm 'Q L-v-MuQ.'L 'Nu dnother steer becduse I hote to is-A 3. ff, l - ' tv fiiffra' 1' , ! '5 come home now ond hove thdt s. .,,.,,,,.-Ig ,gt an .,,.m ,. ,,.. , , .fha un, , 1..v,w , ,Pt 1 ,E 2,1 wl,,g'., R, J' - A4 kink? hoteful Sue Morton turn up her nose. . .W ' f 5 .I ff 7i:.,!i3ffFZs.i, Mfawuv. 941 The girls here weor their Sunddy clothes oil the time. I went to orchestro reheorsol lost night., The , things they bldy ore very funny, they hove no tune to them. Simfunnys, I think they coll them. I'm owful homesick tonight. Don't 4 4' 4 1 - 0-., V dw' ,lv I if V y gf.. - sin, . My q,,,. tl A I r. . lv

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I- KPP fr 3?qM'V, f ,, X - ' .5 , :QP AV e9 Populdr Books of The Seoson College Blue Book. Virginid J. Wulff. The resulTs of The ouThor's own invesTigdTions ore given in on inTeresTing, chdTTy wdy. Every well-known member of o frdierniiy, ond of The college communiTy in generol, con be found in The lisT, TogeTher wiTh minuTe deTdils of his pdsT hisTory, ond dll his inTenTions ond fuTure hopes. AlThough The ouThor is very young To underloke such d work, her skillful grdsp of The subjecT shows inTimdTe dcdudinTdnce wiTh dll who ore given ploce in The book, ond proves conclusively ThoT she knows whereof she wriTes. The Chorm of l?eTicence, by Louise Norlon, is d shorT disserloTion, or rdTher ddmoniTion To college girls in regdrd To mdinToining d reserved, duieT demeonor in dll phoses of The college life. She TredTs successively The cldss-room, librdry, dormiiory, ond dining-room eTiqueTTe. Then in The ldTer chdpTers of The book, she Tokes up The subjecT of digniTy in sociol conTdcT, especidl sTress being puT upon conversdTion in well-moduloTed Tones, in The hdlls, on The sTreeTs, ond on The skoTing-rink. ln conclusion, she cduTions The college girl To be, dbove dll else, diffidenT, undssuming ond reTiring. 1906 Essays The yeor 1905 wos d very imporTonT one in The dnnols of hisTory. Pedce wos findlly esTdblished in The For EdsT: The Federdl governmenT wiTh renewed vigor dTTdcked The greoT combinoTions of cdpiTdl: The , ,gg , '-'il people of Chicogo overwhelmingly voTed To ddopT municipol ownership of The sTreeT rdilwdys: The insuronce invesTigdTion disclosed The duesTiondble meThods pursued in high findnce - buT by for The mosT imporldnT evenT of dll, The one desTined To hove The greoTesT influence on The fuTure hisTory of This counTry, wos The enTrdnce of The cldss of '08 inTo The NorThwesTern UniversiTy Low School. 1907 Freshmen notes

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