Ohio State University - Makio Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

Page 23 text:

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-

Page 22 text:

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.

Page 24 text:

ent colleges, with thirty-six departments of instruc- tion, with twenty-eight courses of study, with a force of nearly one hundred instructors,iand with an enrollment of nearly twelve hundred students -clearly recognized as the logical head of the state work in education, and without a rival in the commonwealth in its own chosen fields. What of the future? No man may speak with certainty as to that which is yet of tomorrow: but from the past we may gather much encouragement, and there is much upon which we may safely base a prophecy. The year nineteen hundred and ten will have seen iive legislatures come and go within the new cen- tury, and will give time for the growth of still greater appreciation on the part of the state. May we not hope and with good reason that these ten years will mark a progress as great as the last twenty-five? If so, the visitor to the campus who comes up Neil Avenue will learn of his nearness to his destination by the first glimpses of the beautiful archway which will then be the main entrance to the grounds. He will not leave the car at that point, but will iind himself gliding smoothly and quietly over a track hidden by the encroaching lawn on a car impelled by either the third rail or by underground connection, to neat waiting-sta- tions in the rear of the buildings on the north side of the campus. Leaving the car at the rear of University Hall, and going at once to the well- known vantage ground of its high front entrance, it will not be difficult for him to see almost at a glance the changes that have come in material lines. Directly in front, almost overhanging the spring and lake, is the new Students building- the H home for all who have either ten minutes or an hour of leisure, and the center of all ethical and religious life on the campus. Its broad porches are most inviting, its auditorium, seating ive hun- dred, is in constant use, its smaller lecture room knows daily assemblies, its four large rooms with long tables are often illed with special classes of most earnest workers and students, the rest-rooms and reading-rooms for young Women, in the east end, are always full and keenly appreciated: while the broad halls and beautiful parlors are the center