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

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Cars often have to share the roads with the most widely used form of trans- portation, walking, (Photo by Dan Moyer, 1987.) BA MOSCOW: BOISE SPECIAL Neate!» ste Beta Roger Cecil got around town on his “‘Van- dal Gold” Honda Elite Scooter. (Photo by Stephanie Worley, 1988.) Walking is one of the few types of transportation al- lowed on the Campus Walkway System, but mountain bikers seem to begaining an edge. (GEM file photo) Centennial Magazine

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Bicycles are a con- venient way to travel around campus, but can be less than perfect in any kind of bad weather. (Pho- to by Dan Moyer, 1987.) “The process will tr ) hardened senior.” EVERY FALL THE SPECIAL train from the southern part of the state comes pulling into Moscow and disgorges hundreds of students. It is no great wonder a few of the new- comers stand around looking dazed, The fraternity men are on hand to pick up the prospec- tive pledges. The sororities, too, wheel out their best manners, most impressive smiles, and whisk the girls off to their cam- pus lodgings. Every year the camera man catches some of these shots and every year it shows the same glad-handing, scurrying: about, and at least one Joe or Josephine Bush lost and desolate looking. Before the new students have a chance to get acquainted they are rushed through registation. The process will try the patience of the most case-hardened senior, Long hours of standing

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“With the exception of a) was tintense.’’ NO ONE KNOWS HOW THE lire sianed: the fire that des- iroyed the pride of Idaho, the finest building devoted to educational interests in the Northwest. At 1wo o'clock on the moming of Friday, March ihe thirtieth, the assistant janitor discovered that the basement and first floor at the rear of the right wing of the Administration Building were in flames, Im- mediately the alarm was given, and students and faculty In the surrounding neighborhood rudely awakened. In less than Iwo minutes, the University Hill Hose Company, lead by Presi: dent James A. MacLean, was al the scene of action, The Nep- iune Hose Company artivecl a few minutes later. It seemed as if the building could be saved. However, the tire was in @ vital spot, at the foot of the stairs, which opened a shaft 6 the Reflections of the old Ad- ministration Building can be seen in the pond tat was approximately where the tennis courts are today. (Historical Photograph Col- lection, UI Library, 1-Sl-2a, 1894.) with sacted doomed. ap The campus thronged with sic men and women inckling down thei lixed by the ho r and with the excepto