University of Iowa - Hawkeye Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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Cla55 ' 93. MOTTO - Gradatim. COLORS - Light Blue and Old Gold. YELL - Rah 1 Rah ! Rah ! Zip ! Boom ! Bee ! Imcana! Ninety-Three ! OFFICERS. GEO. BEARDSLEY, JULIA M. CRAWFORD, E. C. JOHNSON, C. C. STOVER, - BESSIE G. PARKER, President. Vice-President. Secretary. Treasurer. Historian. N the summer of ' 89 Alma Mater, a woman of marvellous intellectual attainments, conceived the outlines of a of art which should excel anything she had previously clone and which should be a standard of excellence by which all future works might be judged. The thought had been hers, for years and the time had come now when developed into a project more fascinating she had even dreamed. She would the Spirit of the State in a mosaic should rival in beauty of design and power execution the mosaics of ancient Rome. would get her materials from all parts of the state, each bit being sentative of some particular and essential quality. The idea grew her and she immediately set about its execution. She felt the project to be a noble and worthy one and deserving of her most skillful work; the ception was the result of her deepest thought, and she felt she might trust 18