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

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THE NINETEEN ELEVEN We are proud of the fact that it now stands intact and that the President who welcomed us here as Freshmen will in a few weeks present our diplomas. Perhaps the greatest work that has been done here by students is to be seen in the cleansing of athletics throughout the Northwest. Hired athletes and athletes who are not students are no longer tolerated, and, as a result of this, a better feeling exists between the different universities and colleges. This has been brought about in the last four years. During our reign, a large part of the student debt has been paid. The Argonaut has been enlarged and put on a paying basis by members of our class. The separation of the collegiate from the preparatory department has just taken place and a new con- stitution has been adopted. Neither is the class of 1910 without its individual stars, or point winners for Idaho, in any line of student activities. Our records in the mile run, 880-yd. dash, 440-yd. dash, 120-yd. hurdles, high jump, discus and hammer throw have not been beaten at Idaho. We are proud of these glories of the men who made them ours to boast of. We are glad that it has been our privilege to help Idaho when she most needed help. We are proud, and we think justly proud, of the part we have had in building up a greater Idaho. Still, our greatest success does not lie in these material glories. With the characters that we have developed here and with the ideals that we have formed, we believe that we are in a condition to do, and will do, more for Idaho than all preceding classes have done. We have done our best for Idaho but we know this to be insignificant, too insignificant to be considered, in comparison to what we have received from our Alma Mater. Only a few more weeks and our career as a class will be ended, yet we will strive on, not as individuals, but as parts of a great state, even as we have here been parts of a great university, to build up a Greater Idaho. TWENTY-FOUR

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GEM OF THE MOUNTAINS Che Seniurs A little less than four years ago, the University of Idaho was proud of the Class of 1910 as being the largest Freshman aggregation ever known at Moscow. On account of a trifling episode of the year before, which, needless to say, was magnified by the lower grade of newspapers throughout the state, into an inhuman hazing scrape, we were watched in that Freshman year and lectured by the faculty as if we had been a kindergarten class. We knew the spirit that promoted these petty lectures—knew that they were intended for the elevation of t he fair name of Idaho, and we listened respectfully, showing by word or look that our dignity was offended. We knew even then, however, that we were the real, although not the nominal, rulers of the University. We did not forget our responsibilities. We ruled. Modesty forbids that we should pass judgment upon the deeds of our heroes or upon the achievements of our class as a whole. Enough that we are proud of these heroes and that every member of the class is proud to wear his numerals. It is but just, however, that we leave for future generations, to whom we shall submit our works for judgment, a brief record of what has been done during our sojourn at the University. For seventeen years the students of the University had rent- ed a field for all their athletic events. This was the situation when we took the helm, but now, Idaho owns the best athletic field in the Northwest. The gymnasium, the old School of Mines building and Ridenbaugh Hall held all the equipment of the Uni- versity when we arrived here. Now, besides these, we have a modern administration building, two mining buildings, Morrill Hall, a central heating plant, an experimental flour mill and a forge shop. We would have our judges ask the members of the legislature, which appropriated the money for these improve- ments, whether or no our personal letters affected the granting of this money. Our University has just passed through a danger- our crisis. Unscrupulous persons have sought its dismemberment. TWENTY-THREE

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GEM OF THE MOUNTAINS Erste Larson, Beta Sigma, Troy Arts English Club; Art Editor ‘10 “Gem of the Mountain”; Philbar- monie Club (1), (2); Biology Club (4.) b. AN Wr Py Wittiam Burton Hoprrr, Midvale Science Websterian Literary Society, ‘O1- ‘04; Graduate Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, ‘09; Victor Price Debaters (4); President Pro- hibition League (4.) Neuuie Myers . . . Caldwell Domestic Science Y. W. C. A. (3) (4) Secretary Senior Class, Second Semester. Oscar Wintiam Hurre . Moscow Electrical Engineering Sub. Baseball (1.) TWENTY-FIVE