University of Arizona - Desert Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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V o 'u'n,i iiiisl o Vogt, V 4 ' Y . ,gi : f Agriculture Builchng . 'fAnd this is 'thx Aggie i I Buildinl, ma am.' lhe old- I l -x Q timer was showing people f 1 Q 'round the campus, and ' ' had stopped in front of the Q , big, red brick structure. lt's the head-quarters fer the College o' .-Xgriculture, ' an' temp'rary offices fer th ' .fXdministration, too. l re- '-, member the time they had ' , startin' the Aggie Colllige '-, 1' i' here. lt was when t ey L A was a-buildin' of Old 6 Main, that the llloard o' ' 'ff Regents found out that xx . the U. S. government made h . an animal appropriation of 1-,I Q' ?:l5,00Q to Agricultural 3. i fxpernnent stations, per- .-, .5 vidin' they was estahli?ed 9 1. under a state Aggie ol- ,i I. . lege. XVell, that money , 3. sure looked good to them, ,, J and an Experiment Station too, but they hed no idea o' how to get either one. ' To get the money we hed ' r to prove that we hed a ' State College .of .iXgricul- - ture at the University with i a perfessor at the head, 5 1 and in good runnin' order. . .-Xnd we didn't have nothin' Q like that at Arizona! But the Regents couldn't stand by an' miss a chance like Q V that one, so they up and finished ofic one room in , Old Main and put a desk I and chairs inlit, and put ' : Mr. Selim franklin, a 5' , E member of the Board of ' ' ' 5 .' Regents, in as Perfessor QQ, ' of Agriculture, and christened it the College of 'llhis was in l888 or thereabouts. By then the ' I Q- Aggriculturel Mr. Franklin told 'em privately State had give 'em some money too, and they f'F.i that he didn't know anythin' about agriculture: could hire two more perfessors- Dr. Forbes if-3553 he said th' only thing he could raise was a and Dr. Tounney for chemistry and botany, word that wasn't quite proper to say. But it who hev since both become famous men in Aff-5 don't do ter stand on ceremony in sech cases, their own line 0' work. iv- and we got the money. Till then they was no .f'Xnd now wc've got this Fine .Xgriculture QT organization at all, Init after they got some buildin' that was put up in 1917. lt's jest cash they could hire a real Aggie perfessor- about the middle o' things on the campus- fi 5? Mr. Gulley was his name if l recerllect right. most o' the business o' the school goes on here. 4 il? fp -il ' :i YA .ul lfauc 11 A xii C in gr wx. C -- O 'ii l'qil 3 ll' .. it ' Q? I E T, a ', H at :sz isr L- X 'r Ja s: :s W ' ' - ... A ..uIli..ii....i .... lh.. xqmi 'oj c . gg V:

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I . , ., , - 'Q' . .. .. ...... ..... .... .... .. .. ,. Q , 'E '- ' ' , .- . 0 'fl' 1' .. T .. .... ..' ,l' Q . ' - - - F7 K E QQ QQQMQM roi ,nn h v- J i-Qlw - I ' T .-gf P fff Old Main ,M 'Ci That old buildin' over thar beyond the Memorial 1' I Fountain? Why, ma'am, 1 ,.f- that buildin' hes the repu- i 4 tation 0' being the one real 'fb T historic spot on the campus. Q That's Old Main, the wit- .1 T ness of forty years o' -. -4-l growth and development o' Q1 ' Kill - Q . . Q 3' this-here University. I hear there's ben talk several times o' tearin' it down, and puttin' up a modern hc buildin' instead, but every- body, from perfessors to students, was up in arms against doin' away with somethin' that hes become a tradition like Old Main has. You notice how queer- like that-thar Main is built: like it was up on stilts, and sorta half underground? VVell, when the first Board o' Regents got the money ter build Main, back in 1885, they was two meni- bers disagreed on the style of the new buildin'. Dr. J. C. Handy, a strong- mindcd man, wanted a one-story buildin', because :ff Stanford had ben started bln with that idea. Mr. S. p Mansfield, also havin' a 91,1 mind 0' his own, wanted two stories, which was . ,. purty high fer Tucson. . -. Well, they split the diff'- ' rence, and made it a one- . f story basement buildin' ' a and thatls- hoiia..it's, stood ' ever since. They hev class rooms and offices there now, bosses o' the school in them days. They did f' and the book-store, but-Old Main hes ben fer purty much what they pleased durin' school f5QI2'? most everythin' and anythin' in its day. The and out of it. If they didn't want ter go 'ter boys who came to prep school, away back school, they jest turned the hose in Main bulld- Mtnzg, afore there was any dorms er livin' quarters in and filled 'er up to. two foot o' watergand fer out cgfcpwlpl students, used ter kind o tclanip tlgre was no classes till the floor was drained t - out in V' am, seeping on cots wit out o '. .vy Q: rt if Q: .5 .', sheets er pillow cases er none o' the luxuries o' civilizationg it was jest like livin' out on the range I reckon. Them young blades was the Old Main always 'pears to me like it could tell a whole lot 0' things if we could only un- derstand it. And I reckon it could all right. . 4 ,, , ,Page 10 V. Q5 Q Q ' Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q i . L Q . ll 1 l J l 'all a ll Q Q Q Q . Q Q Q Q 1 f 1 ,ll laratew m ll l

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H -I U Q .,,U..... . ..,,. .... .. , .. , ...... .... .... T., ....... A W. 9 W . A A Q Me nifee X 'M W,-L 0 .. . .-,. . . . f M-ameopa and Other Dorms 1 . .. 'xl 'flumpin' Jehosopliatlu .A H 'i ' i' L, The lean, sineway form of 'Q 2 Cactus Joe, the old cowboy X I 3 1' ' gave a sudden sidewise X x - '-, ' lurch as a motor roared by, Y x , 3' almost brushing him with X X '-, - the back fender. This , :- campus ain't safe any more -. fer an innercent pedes- .- trian! Blamed if I hadn't I ruther dodge bullets like in :. the old days than these -,' If 3 'Q Q I.: . S? fe -fi . if A . G i ii? tgtlgs 6:11:51 ct-rg? L '. cgi.. consarned pnFfin', snortin' autos. And there was plen- ty of bullets, too. Ile gave a reminiscent chuckle. I recerllect when the boys used ter live in this here Music I-Iall-it was a dor- mitory-like then. 'I' h e i 1' fav'rite afternoon sport was to set up thar in thet round window with their rifles, an' shoot at Herring Hall, till they got the front plumb peppered with bul- let holes. And the gals--I hear they're all fixed fine now in Maricopa Hall. I was lookin' at that place jest this mornin': it's a right pretty buildin', and they do say the livin' quarters are nigh onto perfect as sech. Mrs. Ellis, she's the house- mother, and 'pears to me she'd have her hands full with sech a big family o' gals, but they all say every- thin' runs smooth as clock- work, and they all have a grand time together. I'vc heerd about the swell go- ings-on thar-they have lots o' teas an' dances where everybody injoys theirselves. There was plenty goin' on in the old days. too, when all the gals lived in two cottages. 'I'het's when my Bessie went ter school. She lived in XVest College, where they put the queeners , as I reckon you'd call 'em now-a- days. The ones thet was more inclined to studyin' was in East Cottage. They led ex- citin' lives in them days. At night the boys X used ter turn the fire-hose in on the gals in the sleeping porch, and many's the time my Bes- sie's been soakin' wet. The gals made life mis- er'hle fer their housemother. llessie told me 0' tyin' alarm clocks beneath the bed-springs, or wirin' up the bed with 'lectric wires. Another fav'rite was to blow out the 'lectric light fuse, and half the gals 'nd slip out before 'twas fixed again. I don't guess the Maricopa gals do that-although gals is purty much the same. ' I l 96 i' . ' -- . g Sri O 5 NS Q Q Q E E 23 all ,r l lil 'lr ll: ll,-5 .M kg l i ea -I t- ttsf - rr as -s -g . - if