University of Chicago - Cap and Gown Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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NINE EENI-COIN! P.ED JKND TVVELVE gai- I Tilflnhergrabuate lift Undergraduate life at the University of Chicago is essentially different from the accepted college life. True we have football games, classes, green caps for the freshmen, and other things which are familiar to the college student throughout the countryg but somehow things seem different. This difference is quickly noticed by men of other colleges, and is usually explained by saying that there is no spirit at Chicago.'7 Nlost of the under- graduates cannot refute this accusation, because they themselves can only feel the difference but do not know what it is. Some explanations are offered, such as we have not yet had time to create traditions, and this is what the undergraduate life at Chicago lacks? Others say that the trouble lies in the great number of graduate students, still others put the blame on the great number of students living at home. None of these explanations seen satisfactory. For traditions, we have the C bench, the Senior bench, the Senior moustaches, Ca tradition rather hard to maintain, because of the embarrassing immaturity it reveals in so many casesl, class caps, and other of the customary things in student life. True, we have not Nlichigan's traditions of Joe's and the 0rient, but it is equally true that we are better off without it. The same thing is true of Hthe Boneyardv of Illinois and of class rushes. Our Cn bench is a satisfactory substitute for the Yale fence. Lack of tradition cannot explain the difference. The difference is to be found in the spirit. The accusation that Chicago undergraduates have no spirit is not true, they have a different spirit. The Chicago spirit is not the rah rahu type, which delights in tearing down barber poles and fences or serve as fuel for bonfires. ' Chicago undergraduates go about things differently. A freshman who does not wear his green cap is not brought into line by a ducking in the Botany pond, he is simply branded as one who is not worth while. lXffen are not compelled to do things at Chicago, they are allowed to them. ' The true spirit of Chicago looks to the man, rather than to the institution. The Chicago undergraduate life tends to develop the man,to subserve institutions to him, rather than to subordinate him to the system of undergraduate life, rather than to put him into a great machine where his only chance to be himself is the chance afforded by the machine. This is the true keynote of Chicago spirit. The freshman wears his green cap. Vxfhyf Because some upper classman tells him to do so? Because he will be thrown in the Botany pond, or will have his head shaved if he does not? No. He wears his green hat because it is a good thing for him to do so, because it enables him to recognize his fellow classmen, and to feel the communal impulse which is the heart of undergraduate life at any college. He realizes this, because under the Chicago system, he wears the hat voluntarily. i The undergraduate life at the University of Chicago may be summed up as the life for the man, and sensible traditions, obeyed by the students because it is to thestudentis own welfare to obeyhim. Suchasystem does not make the fresh- man at once a full spirited Chicago mang but it allows him to grow in the spirit of the University, and it gives him memories which he can retain in after life with no regrets. And this is, after all, the best type that could be desired for under- graduate life at the University of Chicago. 16

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