University of Illinois - Illio Yearbook (Urbana Champaign, IL)

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CLASS DIRECTORY Blanche Aldeich, Normal, Literature and Arts. Illinois State Normal University ' 99. | E tyfr L bQ J. Edward Anderson, IIH Paxton, Literature and Arts. Rice Collegiate Institute, Political Science Club, Der Deutsche Verein, President Scandinavian Club, Po- litical Science. Caul E. Armeling, IMas ti City, Literature and Arts. Adelphic, Glee Club, Winner of Adelphic Declama- tion Contest ' 02, Winner of University Declamation Contest ' 03, Opera Club, Choral Society. D. A. Baku, (iood Hope, Electrical Engineering. Captain Company H, M. E. and E. E. Society. Walter T. Bailey, Kewanee, Architecture. Truth is mighty— mighty scarce. — Artie Hale. 35

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jl © A A i A© We have mentioned thus far only a few of the better known facts of our under- graduate history. We wish to give a short resume of our record in athletics, in society, and in intellectual pursuits. Six of our men wear foot-hall I ' s. What would the Varsity have done without our quarter-backs, and half-hacks, and full-hacks ' . ' Barter, Diener, McKinley, McKnight, Muhl, and Wiley deserve to be long remem- bered by us. Durland, Henry, and Hodman have very creditably kept up our part in track athletics, and in base-ball, though our numbers are few, we feel proud of Deacon Miller, and Reddie Roberts. In social affairs we have been very successful. This is because of the great number of really pretty j irls who came to Illinois to graduate with naught four. We hail a four year ' s course in class functions. Other classes spent too much time in bone-yard plunges, as the high dive yell would seem to indicate. Our senior ball promises to be the ne plus ultra of University class events. As for scholarship, we contributed very large quotas to the various literary societies and clubs of the University. Almost all of these organizations had to rush in many members at the first of the year to make up in part for their coming loss in seniors at the end. In the last two years we have furnished eight Intercollegiate de- haters, Bundy, Doeden, Dorman, Knapp, Reef, Hodman, Renick, and Western. In the Central Oratorical League naught four represented the University at Charlotte- ville. West Ya.. last May, and won second place. We edited the Illini last year and made it a daily ; we also jrot out a splendid Illio. This year we still edit the Illini, and both edit and manage the Illinois. We have done a great deal, hut are modest in saying much about it. We have indeed done as we should have done, that is, subor- dinated everything to our intellectual development. We have good grades, and arc candidates for degrees. A. girl one time expressed to a friend regret that her brother, poor fellow, could have been a famous athlete at college if he had only wanted to, hut he decided that he would rather have a degree. We are sorry for her, but admire her brother, for we do not believe in pre]) athletes. A little retrospect and then the close of the senior chapter of the college history of the class of 1904. It has been but a short time since we came to Illinois to do our first year ' s work. As the weeks, and months, and years have glided by we feci that we have not spent them in vain, but that we have received training for large and useful lives as well as for professions requiring academic and technical knowledge. We have taken a wholesome part in the various interests of a large body of people. In a very orderly and dignified way we elected a straightforward and capable senior president. ( )ur defeated candidates we still cherish as classmates, and only regret that we haven ' t other hijrh offices to fill. We have learned patriotism as shown by the support given to our foot-ball team. All of this reminds us that we are now soon to become a part of the mighty, onward-moving democracy of (he nation which sweeps everything ephemeral, and dogmatic, and immoral before it, and as a fitting benediction let us hope that our ideals and deeds shall be crystallized in some object of usefulness and sentiment which shall be a blessing to 1 hose who come and go with passing years. May such memorial say to them naught four did not come and go in vain. CLASS YELL Bow! Wow! Wow! Hear us Roar! ( Yack-a-jacker ! ( ' rack-a-jackcr ! Nineteen-Four ! COLORS hie and While Of making tmimj hook then is no i nil, and study is wi arisome lo ihi flesh. Norm a Love. M

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Rei.i ' ii Adams Ballinger, HAE, Keokuk, Iowa; Mechanical Engineering. Ralph Stanley Bauer, Champaign, Classical. Philomathean Literary Society. Ames Russell Benson, Bloomington, Literature and Art J. Douglas Blocher, Amboy, General Literature and Arts. Anihoy Ilifrh Schoool ' 01, Lieutenant in Battery, Walter C. E. Brain, $AY, Chicago, Chemistry. • And e ' en her failings lean to virtues ' side. —Mary Moss. 30