University of Idaho - Gem of the Mountains Yearbook (Moscow, ID)

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ception has been that the remarkably successful record of our Univer- sity debating teams has this year been well sustained. In addition, the enrollment of students this year shows a satisfactory increase over that of 1905-06. } In other things, a slower, although sure, growth has displaced the more brilliant progress of the days before the fire. Special acknowledgment is due to J. G. Martin, Miss Esther Lar- son and Rowe Holman for assistance in the form of drawing. ‘The business manager wishes also to acknowledge appreciation of the very considerable assistance rendered to him by T. Estel Hunter. The staff itself is also deserving of commendation for faithful and efficient service. —THE EDITOR

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PREFACE Those to whom the class of 1908 entrusted the editing of this, its yearbook, have followed the well defined precedents in determining what they should put into the book and what they should keep out. Those precedents are, briefly, that the junior annual shall include eve- rything important in the student life of one college year, and that the presentation of the material shall be made in the way which will most effectively recall the year’s events to one reading the book in after times. Of course such a book furnishes only the framework around which the memories of its readers reconstruct the life of the college year which it chronicles. The present volume seeks to present in the main this usual subject matter, but with some freshness of treatment. For instance, a change which we believe is for the better is the com- pression of the material relating to lower college classes, and the pre- paratory school into less space, and the elimination of the usual general writeups given to those classes. The increase, on the other hand, in space given to the seniors in order to include statistical questions on a wide range of subjects is believed to be an equally desirable innovation in an Idaho annual, and one which we hope future editors will ap- prove and copy. The editing of the yearbook of 1906-1907 has not been an unusu- ally difficult task. Development has been evident in all phases of University life, but it has not been extraordinarily rapid. The effects of the destruction of the Administration building by fire in March, 1906, have been evident in a temporary cessation of the exuberance of progress which was felt in every department of student life up till that time. It seemed appropriate, for instance, that the class of 1906, which graduated one month after the fire, should take with it those who had been the strength of the football team, and that we should have to begin, in the fall, the slow process of building up our next con- quering eleven almost entirely from new recruits. One pleasing ex-

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BOARD OF REGENTS GrorGE C. PARKINSON - Vice-President - Preston 1905-IQII Mrs. SAMUEL H. Hays - Secretary - Boise 1906-1907 Jamzs F. McCarTuy - - - - Wallace 1905-1911 EpWARD S. SWEET - - - - Grangeville 1903-1907 MAris E. LEwIs . - - - - Moscow 1906-1909 Executive Committee GEORGE C. PARKINSON Mrs. SAmMuEL H. Hays Maris E. Lewis