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

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SIGMA XI Founded. 1886. IOWA CHAPTER Established. 1900. OFFICERS THOMAS HUSTON MACBRIDK PRESIDENT ARTHUR G. SMITH SECRETARY L. W. Andrews S. Calvin G. Li. Houser T. H. Macbride C. C. Nutting A. G. Smith CHARTER MEMBERS A. V. Sims B. Shimek A. A. Veblen L. G. Weld H. F. Wickham J. V. Westfall C. L. von Ende L. P. Sieg P. A. Bond MEMBERS ELECTED 1901 C. F. Lorenz F. T. Jensen C. H. Smith ELECTED 1902 C. I. Lambert R. D. George H. M. Goettsch W. B. Bell W. M. Boehm R. D. Marsh W. E. Beck SENIORS W. M. Barr GRADUATES INSTRUCTOR J. J. Lambert 5 GRADUATE OF FIVE YEARS STANDING Dr. Frank Russell F. G. Emry F. A. Stromsten

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Pffl BETA KAPPA Founded, 1776. ALPHA OF IOWA Established, September, 1895. OFFICERS G. T. W. PATRICK PRESIDENT L. G. WELD VICE PRESIDENT W. C. WILCOX SECRETARY AND TREASURER FRATRES IN FACULTATE Amos N. Currier, Dartmouth, 1856 George E. MacLean, Williams, 1871 Kmlin McClain, Iowa, 1871 G. T. W. Patrick, Iowa, 1878 Henry E. Gordon, Amherst, 1879 Leona A. Call, Iowa, 1880 Laenas Gifford Weld, Iowa, 1883 Charles Bundy Wilson, Cornell, 1884 E. W. Rockwood, Amherst, 1884 Helen M. Eddy, 1900 Percival Hunt, W. C. Wilcox, Rochester, 1888 Arthur Fairbanks, Dartmouth, 1886 Katherine Paine, Iowa, 1889 Clark F. Ansley, Nebraska, 1890 Elmer A. Wilcox, Brown, 1894 Herbert C. Dorcas, Iowa, 1895 Sam B. Sloan, Nebraska, 1899 Bertha Quaintance, Nebraska, 1899 H. Claude Horack, Iowa, 1899 Charles A. Williams, 1899 Iowa, 1900 S. Delia Hutchinson, 1883 Laura Clark Rockwood, 1892 Ellen Warren Remley, 1894 Mary Holt Richards, 1895 FRATRES IN URBE Helen N. Currier, 18% Mary E. Barrett, 1896 Edna E. Page, 1900 Myra Bloom, 1900 INITIATES Mary Ethel Waller James Ellis Gow Elizabeth J. Cooper Robert J. Bannister Victoria Hruska Henrietta Plock Clarence W. Soesbe Annie Louise Gow Ethel May Bond Hugh S. Buffum

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THE HALL OF LIBERAL ARTS LITTLE over half a century ago the legislature of Iowa passed the act estab- lishing a state university. Ever since its founding the hopes and efforts of all connected with it have been directed to providing a suitable home for the collegiate department, the department which in reality is the cen- tral one of a university. At last the efforts of those pioneers of learning have been rewarded, and that too in a substantial way. Some of them died before their labors had borne fruit, but some are still laborers, faithful as ever. We younger ones can not know the feeling of pardonable pride within them, when on the llth day of June, 1898, they saw laid the corner stone of the hall for the College of Liberal Arts. They saw in it, as we did, but with a truer vision, the beginning of newer and better things for the university. On September Sth of the same year the first sod was turned. According to contract the building was to be finished in two years. But the work of construction dragged along until, in the minds of upper classmen, anxious to see the completion of their new home, it seemed as though it would never be finished. However, public building contracts are sometimes finished, and the building was finally used during the summer session of 1901. By the time the fall term opened in September it was practically completed, and the inrushing body of students dedicated it to the uses of learning. The formal official dedi- cation, however, did not take place until the 23d of January, 1902. Senator Dolliver, who had been present as chief speaker at the laying of the corner stone, was also one of the speakers on this occasion. The governor, legislature, and the state officers were the university ' s guests of honor. In the presence of the student body and faculty, of the