Northwestern University - Syllabus Yearbook (Evanston, IL)

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NorThwesTem's firsT yeorbook, on onnuol colled The Pondoro, oppeored in 1884. Published by The senior closs, The 1241-poge volume wos filled wiTh group picfures of greeks, professors ond clubs. Eoch closs submiTled essoys of iTs yeorly goings-on. Filled wiTh ployful boosTs, The pieces demonsTroTed The sTrong closs rivolry ThoT wos much o pori of NorThwesTern's eorly doys. The froTemiTies published The 1885 volume, renomed Syllobus. Creofive differences prompTed The resignofion of Two ediTors-in-chief before The nexf onnuol wos published. ln 1886, The yeorbook cosT 50 cenTs. The Syllobuses of The loTe 1800s looked much like The Pondoro. Supporied by odverTising revenue, The volumes were crommed wiTh ods for everyfhing from hoir Tonics To cIoThing. Closs rivolries coniinued To monifesT Themselves in The poges of The yeorbooks, ond upper closses oTTen submiTTed clever poems ond limericks in puT-downs of freshmen ond sophomores. ln Those doys, NorThwesTern enrolled only obouT 100 sTudenTs, ond privoTes jokes obounded. ln 1894 The junior closs Took over yeorbook dufies. Syllobus become o biT sTodgier, ond foculfy, sTudenT ond curriculum direcTories reploced mony of The poems ond closs essoys. AIThough They did noT conToin orficles of The yeors' evenTs, The Syllobuses of The Teens begon To copfure The compus' sociol climoTe in closs essoys. The joke secTion in The 1911 book conToins The following: 'Winifred Goodsmifh spends on hour ond o holf in Deon PoTTer's office exploining why she come in oT 3 o.m. from TheTo formol . . ond 'Chorley HiITon comes To closs wiThouT o collor. He exploins ThoT he hod To coll I-TER up ond forgoT oll obouf iT. The books of The '20s ore Thick volumes, often running over 600 poges. lvluch like eorlier onnuols, The books do liTTle more Thon coTolog sTudenTs ond professors. TrodiTionol conTenTs refleciing o conservoTive sTudenT body, These yeorbooks conToin sconf hinT ThoT This wos o decode coiled The Roofing TwenTies. The yeorbooks of The loTe '30s ond eorly '40s ore works of orf deco, eloborofely odorned wiTh gilT ond lovish color drowings. They ore opT represenToTions of o sTudenT body eoger To Throw off The shroud of The Depression ond geT bock inTo The swing of Things. lvlimicking New Yorker-like prose ond corloons, The