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

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Homecoming badge sales are a common sight. We might even buy one from this girl if we were sure she was selling and not out trick or treating. Stunt Show is a traditional part of Homecoming. The Alpha Gams and SAEs won second place. Football Game, Stunt Show Highlight the Weekend Another Homecoming, another beautiful queen. Here we see Miss Betty Birch, Chi O, as she was notified of her winning Excited about her winning, the girls of the queen's sorority got together to surprise her and wish her their best during her reign. 15

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This Minnesotan seems to have lost his head over the game. Never- theless, their band's half-time show equaled their football playing. This reporter managed to pursuade the Minnesota gopher from his hole long enough to claim victory for his great team. Homecoming: Alums Descend En Masse Upon Campus SAE's gather for a Homecoming reunion. Harlan (Jack) Horner, left, Albany, N. Y., honored guest, chats with '01 pal, Fred McCune, Chicago. Homecoming 1961 : another exciting day for the alums as they descend en masse upon the campus to relive their joyous col- lege days; another harrowing experience for students as they contemplate the hour- lies coming up and the idea of a whole weekend wasted. But as the football team expectantly loses another game, the latter catches a few winks after a late night at decorations, or runs off to hide behind some books at the library; the former sheds a few tea rs at the sight of the old house, and then rounds up what few young brothers are still around for a bout of beer versus coke at the old campus spots. Then come the usual for the visitors: Stunt Show, homecoming badges to buy, a look at the beautiful queen, a chance to relate exactly how everything was done when they were at school. One last look at Kam's and one last exclamation at the new addi- tion to the Union and the mushroom, and goodbyes are in order for another year. Off go the cars to Chicago and parts un- known ; off go the students to the library, anxious to make a dent in the studying be- fore plans go into effect for the next big football weekend. Dad's Day. 14

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This is University Hal!, Illinois' first building. When it opened in 1885, it stood unfinished in the middle of a field so muddy that for years faculty and students wore rubber boots when crossing it. A collapsed ceiling in 1938 led to its being torn down. Homecoming Displays Depict Land-Grant Centennial Homecoming decorations at Armory House's Hall of Fame'' pursue the weekend's theme, the Land Grant act. This year the University of Illinois is joining with sixty-seven other colleges and universities across the country in celebrating the centennial of the Land-Grant Act. It was an Illinois reformer, Jonathan Baldwin Turner, who proposed a system of education adapted to the needs of the common man, and Justin Morrill whose driving force eventually pushed the bill through Con- gress. The results gave states federal land on which to establish and endow colleges within reach of all Americans. In 1863 the Illinois Legislature unanimous- ly accepted the Morrill Act, under which the state re- ceived 480,000 acres of land to found a university. Five years later it opened, under the name of Illinois Industrial University, with an enrollment of fifty and a staff of three teachers and a head farmer. From its modest beginning, when a single building was its home and when students sometimes came downstairs from their rooms to recite in bathrope and slippers, the Uni- versity has grown tremendously, and continues to ex- pand in response to the problems of our day. 16