Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Q At sometime, far back in the prehistoric ages, the Ohio State University was without colors. They had no need of any, for they had none of those vain youth that the University has been bothered with in these later years, then they thought more of their studies than they did of their appearance and show. About the year 1883 a number of these vain youth got together to consider how they could beau- tify their appearance, and they decided that a few yards of ribbon apiece would do most toward this end. After several weeks of considering and reconsidering they adopted the famous Scarlet and Gray, which now can be seen encircling every graduate's diploma, floating from tl1e University buildings, and last, but not least, floating from every loyal student's coat. Every loyal-hearted person who has gone through high school and entered this grand and noble institution has had, at least, some experience in choosing a yell, for either class or school. By stretching the imagination far enough, and wide enough, this loyal-hearted individual might, by the use of co-ordinate geometry and differential cal- culus, have some faint impression of what it would mean to choose a yell for the head of the Public School system. In the fall of '89 this momentous question came before this little republic. The distinguished and glorious honor of inventing the now famous yell, by which the Ohio State Univer- sity is known from pole to pole, is heaped on the shoulders of one poor, lone mortal. A colored student by the name of Clark, famous as the win- ner of the oratorical contest in '88, has the sole honor, and now Wahoo, Wahoo! Rip, Zip, Bazool I Yell, I Yell for O. S. U., can be heard from the lips of the inhabitants of every country and every planet.

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Ohio State University. Q 1 8 FOUNDED 1878. an Q Q , ITS PRESIDENTS.f DR. EDWARD ORToN, 1873-1881. REV. DR. WALTER QUINCY SCOTT, 1881-1883. REV. DR. WILLIAM HENRY ScoTT, 1883-1895. DR. JAMES HULME CANFIELD, 1895 - ' can FLOWER. SCARLET CARNATION. CC! YELL AND COLORS. A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY. - HEN the Freshman hides his three yards of Scarlet and Gray under his coat as he sees, for the iirst time, the foot ball team swept across those, to him, mystifying and meaningless white lines, or when he stands, at midnight, on the street corner giving, for the ben- efit of those who have heard other fools making fools of themselves in the same way, that beautiful and meaningless rigamarole designated by the name of College Yell, which he has spent hours in learn- ing and practicing, he does not think of the furious brain-racking and jaw-working it took to set those emblems of college spirit rolling down through the ages to terrify green-horns and subdue rivals.

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fff ' ' T 0. S. U. in IQIO. CFMJ HE history of the University is written in the hearts of its Founders, its Trustees, its Faculties and its Students. It is all so recent, it has all held so fast to the sympathy and interest and untiring eifort of those who have been with it from the beginning, it has received such an endowment of enthusiastic and unselfish devotion, that no words are necessary to reproduce the past. From the foundation walls of the main building, laid not yet thirty years ago, to the last piece of apparatus placed in the new gymnasium, all the details of its growth are household words. Even its warmest friends have been astonished at the results of quickly passing time. University Hall on ' was erected with grave doubt as to the wisdom of so heavy a draft upon the futureg but it was over- flowing before its first companion could be com- pleted. Each building has followed hard upon most imperative demand, each laboratory desk has been quickly taken, each lecture-room has been filled almost as soon as opened. The public has hesitated to ask, only to ind that the trustees have anticipated the request. The trustees have halted at the legislative doors, only to have them flung wide open most unexpectedly and with most gen- erous hands. 'And now the University is touching the close of the twenty-fifth academic year, with seven carefully organized and practically independ-