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

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learn from the weak. Tolerance, sympathy, kindness, the generous word, the helpful act, all typical of the woman We commemorate. will be the contribution of the women who go forth from Ida Noyes Hall to take part in the upbuilding of the- new civilization which is to come. ' The government of women's activities and guidance was for thirty-years under the capable leadership of Miss Talbot. Sagacious, diplomatic, kind, and possessing a rare humor, Miss Talbot was be10ved by all the women under her leadership. It was she who was responsible for the term 'lUniversity woman'a replacing the term lbco'ed. The University women were responsible to themselves. and the general public opinion of the eommun1ty;I It isnlt done guided their activities rather than It's against the rules,n arid this attitude has persisted t0 the present da . 'y'llhat elusive quality known as college spirit'1 was much more prevalent on the Chicago campus before the World War than it is today; student organizations made great strides under Judson. One of the earlier attempts to break up cliques and encourage a feeling of unity was the first Interclub dinner, in 1907. The Yellow Jackets, the Blue Bottles and the Black Bonnets were, strangely enough, the honor societies for women, Formed in 1914; the names were symbolized in attractive Rand much coveted e little pints. One of the most popular of the male organizations was the ThreetQuarters Club, organized in 1895. In that year, freshmen could not pledge a fraternity in the first three quarters at the University, and the Three-Quarters Club supplied their need for social activity. Theineophytes performed stunts at football games, and- many were the amusing escapades they engineered on campus during the noon hour. In 1912 the club' was enlarged to admit three members of each fraternity, and two nonlfraternity men; the latter were designated as leerharians. The next year the rules were changed to provide for four candidates from each fraternity, only two of whom became hnal members, and a total of ten nonlfraternity men. But the beating of pledges, and the Opinion that the club was an inordinate time'consumer, brought so much pressure to bear that it drifted into obscurity. The class of 1911 probably possessed the greatest amount of school spirit in the history of the UanErSlty. The women voluntarily wore green bands around the1r dainty wrists for purposes of identification among the men; the seniors pledged themselves to grow mustaches tshades of the presentvday mustache retest, the juniors donned blue-knobbed caps, and the sophomores wore grey toques with yellow knobs. . Song contests were devices used to stimulate school spirit. By 1910, students emerged from research to declare that pepular music was the reason for the decline of college songs. To apply ointment to the wound, in March; 1911, Blackfriars sponsored a. song contest at the University; prizes'of fifty dollars each were oEered for the beet lyrics and music. The judging, originally scheduled for April'second, had to be postponed h for lack of suitable m'aterial. ' Since 1910 students have had their day measured by the Alice Freeman Palmer chimes. Stagg requested that .the Alma Mater be played each night at 10:06 o'clock by the bells suspending in Mitchell Tower as a hint to athletes to retire. Another landmark in 1910 was the adoption of the University seal - long desired by Harper, The design was evolved by judson, Ryerson. and Hutchinv s o n . T h e :1 main figures, a phoenix and a book, typif y im' tn 0 r t a 1 i ty and knowl' edge respec- tively, t h e surrtmndin g flames eomv m e in o r a t e t h e .g r e a t Chicago fire and the rev building of the city. The original de' sign, with - the book su' perimposed on the phoer nix, is carved in Harper Library. The design as 1': Exists today-the book above the phoenixeis exemplified by the plaque Ion the ground lloor of Mitchell Tower. loomers, and basketball. o Junior-Sem'or rivalry, . First Fraternity Reformations Until 1910, fraternities were run on the familiar cut- throat basis. Rushing .was 'free and unrestricted. Some men were pledged during. itheir-second year of 'high school! Underlying the change in policy to unity and higher standards' was the Interfratemity Sing, held for the first time during the Alumni Week of 1911. Rushihg rules were formed, and the Intetfraternity Council set up to administer them in january of 1912. ' - Rushing was prohibited from .MQnday morning to Thursday evening, in order that members and - freshmer1 might not be diverted from their studies; another regu' lation forbade Htampering with men, 'onee they had pledged a fraternity. In 1914, rushing 0f highvsehool men was tontined t0 the last half of. their'senior year. Naturally rules were broken, but punishment, consisting of un' favorable publicity in the. Maroon or restriction of ' pledging activity, was levied in the hope that illegal rushing would be eliminated to the furthest possible extent. Scholarship rating of fraternities began in the 'Efst Seventeen

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0 Ida Noyes site from Harper Tower. so sure of itself, and the day was so hot that when an Illinois back broke through the Chi! cago line Wally Steffen lay down saying that it Wasn't worth it and trackman Ned Merriam chased the Illini back the length of the field and hnally caught him a few yards short of the goal. Also that year a rough battle tee sembling a football game, resulted in Wis: consinls defeat, and netted Chicago the Cone ference Basketball Championship. The '08 National Track Championship was pulled out of the hre by Ned Merriam who won the linal event. In 1910 the famous Japan series of baseball games was started by Waseda University's inviting a number of American baseball teams over to play them. Since that time Chicago has played live series, in all about Fifteen games, with the Japanese here and in Japan. It was noticed each year that the Japanese gave our team much stiller corn: petition. In 1910 Chicago again won the basketball title and in '11 Ira Davenport led the track team to a sham! pionship in the newly originated indoor season. In 1912 Chicago reaped great 'interseetional publicity by its 60 defeat of Cornell, the strongest of the im'pregnahle Easterq football teams. - - Nels Norgren, a1 twelvealetter man, was invaluable to the University's capture of the foBtball and basketball conference titlesjn 19131 Another bluearibbon traqk team was in ,e'vidence in 1915; its star was the great negro runner, Binge Desmond, now a leading Harlem physician Alonzo Stagg was ohe of the first to decry athletic subsidizing in 1917... By 1921 the Maroons were making consistently poorer showings. At this time the Daily Maroon began a campaign against compulsory gym for all studentst But in.1922, athletics reached a sudden new high; attendance-at football games broke all records. Carl Greenleaf presented the huge 'University of Chicago drum, the diameter of which is eight feet. A skin, the largest available, had been selected for one side, but it . required two days of combing the entire Chicago Stock! yards to find another that even approximated it in size! Sixteen I '. .- - ts! Ln.x .11....95, .. I r1-i v-r 3'31. t I: i AD 2 ,. The C book was offered for the Erst time in 1912; it met with instant success. and has since become an invaluable incentive to interest in athletice The Women Awaken Womenls activities especially underwent great expan' sion during the Judson administration; the influential guidance of Dean of Women, Marion Talbot, and the building of Ida Noyes Hall were the factors mainly responsible. The location of women's gymnasium headquarters had ranged from a Sunday-school room of the Hyde Park Baptist Church to the ever'accommodating Lexington Hall! But always the students dreamed of a womenls building. Vainly they attempted to raise funds. through citcuses, penny races, and the sale of anjssue of the uMatroon, but until the gift of $300,000 was made by Mr. La. Verne Noyes, in 1913, the dream did not become an actuality. Mrs. Judson, in her husbandls absence, arose in the middle of the night to write and suggest to Mr. Noyes that he donate a womenls building to, the University in memory of his recently deceased wife, Ida Noyes. Conr trary to Mrs. Judsonls qualms and fears, Mt. Noyes responded generously; the actual donation was announced at the Julyr convocation in 1913, the architects were ent gaged immediately, and construction began. Since an atmosphere of hospitable familiarity was det sired, the building was conceived in the spirit of 3. Tudor Manor House planned around a cloistered court. On the afternoon before its dedication lwhich took place at the time of the Quarter Centennial in 1915-161, a group of women presented a masquee The Gift ethe story of which is embodied in the murals of Ida Noyes Theatre. The comer stone was laid on April 17, 1911 No better expression 01 the aims and ideals of Ida. Noyes Hall can be obtained than from Miss Marion Talbot's dedication speech, which reads in part: I speak not only for myself but for all the women of the University when I assure you, Mr. Noyes, and you Mr. President, that this cornerstone means a mighty impulse toward the truly great things of life. Here self-discovery and selflcontrol will lead to social co'operation and mutual understanding. The weak will learn from the strong, and the strong will 0 Misses.Talbot and Breckirm'dge e guiding spirits for the 'tUniw versal Woman!

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decade of the twentieth century. Over a period of years. the fraternities show a decided variability in this respect The 1937 survey rates the Betas ftrst, but in 1911, Beta was next to the bottom of the list. . Blackfriars continued to be Ia strong activity. The preverbial pot boiled when the organization tried to put the excellent 1908 show, 11The Sign of the Double Eagle, on the road ta 1a the Princeton Triangle ClubL but the attempt hzzled, and died. In 1920 the hrst modern Black- friars show e Barbara Behave - was presented. University publications were gradually expanding; in magazines there was a genuine Renaissance. In 1917 the University of Chicago Literary Monthly was replaced by the Chicagoan, a magazine that was designed to meet popular taste. An entirely new type of magazine, the Phoenix? was created to cover both college humor and literary efforts. The Chanticleer? a news weekly digest of social and political problems, sprang briefly into promi' nenee, but was suspended in 1922. The 'Daily Maroon staff published a monthly magazine, the ?Circle, for the hrst time in 1922. The Daily Maroon of this. era was reputed to be the best college dailyr in the country. Religieus activity during President Judson15 adminiSI tration was at a peak; until as late as 1919, Chapel at- tendance was compulsory once a week, with penalties for nonlattendance. The class of 117 included a 110040- Church Sunday in its Spring Quarter program. Dis- cussion of morals and health was widespread. and in 191613 long series of anti-Cigarette lectures was'given. The student was impressed with a sense of personal supervision; many of the then current regulations are today distinctly reminiscent of grammar schooi. In 1912 a hrevdrill was held for students having classes in Cobb Hall; the 10:15'10:45 recess, which had been eliminated in the fall of 1912, was reinstated during the Winter Quarter, because of an overwhelming number of conr plaints. ' With the advent of the World War, the students were feverishly active in the fight to save democracy. Campus activities slowed down practically to a etandestilf; in 1918, there was no Blackfriar show; the Cap and Gown was halved, in both size and price. Enrollment of men was cut Eighteen 0 Early scene in the Daily Ma- roon oHicereEm-e editorial acidity. - by eighteen percent, and that of women by three percent. German classes droppeti to fifty percent of their former size. . The professors began to take an academic approach to the study of war. A series of papers explaining the ceuses for the United States' en! trance into the World War was pubiished by the Um versity Press to strengthen the spirit of patriotism. In 1918 war courses were ofr fered in the regular eurrieue lum. The largest single underr taking of the University in connection with the war was drilling. In the spring of 1917, 800 were enrolled in the R..O.T.C.; members of the faculty, and even President Judson, drilled right with the students. In june of that year, Marshal Foch visited the University, and inspected the unit. In actual service, nearly one hundred University of Chicago men lost their lives. Relief work occupied a. prominent place in the Uni- versitfs war activities. The ambulance service sent an ambulance and a complete staif across in 1917. The next year most fraternities rented their houses to the govern, ment. Most of the vacant land along the Midway was offered by the trustees for war gardens. Particularly active was the Womarfs War Aid Society; members tilled gardens, conducted economy classes. and engaged in Red Cross work. Some of the socks diligently knitted by University women, the doughboys declared, htweuld fit no human foot!11 High Salaries Bring High Honors Former President Harpefs educational policies were continued to the very end of judsonTS administration. New I Cap and Gown propaganda on a large scale.