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

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I T g l EW CAP ANLD GOWN - 1' V 1 I riotous activity of the Y. W. C. L.g the establishment of neighborhood clubs fto do away with male escorts from the Settlement Dancej , and the installation of Greenwood Hall. Placing the classes on a recognized footing gave a great boost to class activity the following year. The Senior men inaugurated hats and pseudo-mustaches, and the class started the first class paper, The Eleven. It was this year that, to the sorrow of all, Dean Vincent, who had been so close to the student body, left the University. In the spring the Waseda baseball team of Japan paid us a visit in return for our first call, and received almost the entertainment of Interscholastic men. In the parade to the field on Waseda Day of the Spring Carnival was shown for the first time the newly chosen University Seal. We discovered that not one of the four th-ousand student committees which had discussed the matter had thought of: Scientia Crescat Excolatur Vita! The Senior of '11 could hardly reconcile the University with the one of his Fresh- man year. The faculty roll had changedg the campus had added to it the Ryerson Addition and the magnificent Harper Library, and even the student mind had hit new channels. A wave of Democracy was engulfing the undergrad! Compared to '07, he was intoxicated with it. But, as always, Jimmy had the deep philosophy. As he stood early one morning looking ruefully at his roller, which Snell men had pushed halfway down Hitchcock basement, he observed, resting his eyes vaguely on the dor- mitory windows, An' they call 'em college studjents! . CYRUS LEROY BALDRIDGE. '5- 5 Q 5 Q , Po v tv I E

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Ff'T ?i '5 CAP AND GOWN F Y C1907-1911 OR even Chicago's strenuous development, the span, '07-'11, must stand out to observers as a period of remarkable development. Those institutions alone which remained unchanged were the Commons and the Marshall Field fence. Even that prince of the Reynolds Club who had been as firmly embedded in campus atmos- phere as Jimmie-even Julius ceased in that epoch. In the fall of '07 we sang, Hlddings, Steffen and De Tray, etc. g and they brought us the Western Championship in football. Then the basketball five went one better and took the first actual National Championship title, elevating basketball to a major HC. And the track team made it three in a row. This year also introduced fencing as a minor CH sport. Among other notable events of '07 may be mentioned: the first Settlement Danceg the beginning of the Alumni Magazine, the gift of the Alice Freeman Palmer chimesg the awarding -of the Nobel Prize to Professor Albert A. Michelson, and the final gradu- ation of Alvin Kramer. ' The next year repeated championships for football and basketball. Then athletics fell with a dull thud and remained in a semi-conscious condition for two seasons. Even Bill MacCracken could awaken few sparks of life. But we were busy in other channels. T-he student voters, enthused with civic pride, arose fas we all knowj and placed Professor Merriam in the council-and nearly got him the mayoris chair. In the meantime the women got the funny idea that they needed a gymnasium where the rain didn't leak through the roof, and started all sorts of activities to get money, such as Ridiculous Dances, Penny Races and Vaud-evilles. Clt was jealousy which induced fifteen of the men to buy out the fir-st row at one performance and appear in bald-headed wigsj. As the faculty had again raised the standard, both men and women spent much time watching for yellow envelopes in the Cobb rack and pursuing a new species of game called the Honor Point. Nineteen-nine and ten was noteworthy in at least two ways. The Colleges, which no one wanted to belong to or knew why he did, were abolished in favor of Classes funder aliasesj. And Feminism came. As proof of this last may be mentioned the If 24 U V

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These have been the tangible things, but there hav-e 93 Y 6 '?3 it CAP AND GOVVA 9 0 ' V 191 6, . - 'gif fifa I 5 X: 7 .9332 Q we f 3' 4' 'T ri 9 ,ya 1 S A 'S 9, dw 2 iff- f 4? xfqf if gf ss Y So ' A 'lf 4 42 'X 3 'fa it 1 3 1 ' 1 K 'fr f i Q ,I 5 ,Q ,' -X 2 4 f Q 93? z 9 f if , f x 1 ez y .4 fi, gy gg E, X Q ' 4 5 i f, , . A .4 , ., I 5-'51-L Ti 2 Ji : ff-1' -it a g -1-- M pf 1, , 'u,,,n. -. ..,t. 'e,, -,--..:,.f.::- - . 1, -1- -, --if-..,.-,..,1,,,. , 5 , , y 2-1916 lt is an unusual privilege that the Class of '1916 has this year-the privilege of being graduated at the time of the quarter - centennial celebration of the University. Four of those twenty-five years have been ours, not a long time, perhaps, but full 'of very significant events. We have seen the Classics Building and Rosen- Wald Hall begun and finished. We have Watched the growth of Ida Noyes Hall, and before We leave the shelter of our Al-ma Mater that splendid build- ing will have been dedicated to the use of the Women of the University. been traditions fostered, sentiments upheld, which have contributed to that spirit which is as certainly present in our University life as are these buildings. We have lived and worked, not as our fathers did, but as we hope our children will do, and n-ow, as the University completes its first quarter century of life, we bring to an end a period in which we have been, not followers, but leaders. May the events of the future prove we have chosen the right way. LAWRENCE J. MACGREGOR. , '1 1 '.r 26 M... , 1 gh- p my 5 H .