University of Missouri - Savitar Yearbook (Columbia, MO)

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THE ECONOMIC BIRTH OF THE UNIVERSITY At Bologna, Italy, in 1155, was located one of the earliest universities. Here were gathered 10,000 students from every European nation The natives subjected the foreign students to ill-treatment and outrageous taxation, and the students appealed to Frederick 1. Barbarossa, Holy Roman Emperor, for relief. He ruled that the University and its students should be free from taxation, and his dictum of economic freedom for uni ersitics has been followed ever since.

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Stuaenis oj ihe Early Universities were Licensed i)y Law to Beg. THE EDI T O KS FO KEWO KD 1 his University— Our Missouri — is not the result of the handicraft and genius of a few men of our day, but rather, is the consummation of centuries of idealistic endeavors of visually-minded men of the past — who made possible the existence of the university as an institution by their pursuit of intellectual proficiency. We have portrayed this to contrast with the review we present of the aims and ideals, activities and achievements, of the past school year at Missouri — a compilation we hope that will faithfully mirror Missouri life. If we have been able by this review to weld another link in that long chain of memories of college life cherished the more by the real- ization of our Alma Mater ' s heritage of the past— we feel that the 1927 Savitar will have achieved its purpose.

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' inn ' ' - ' f - The Tavern was The Fraternity House of the Early Days. THE O R D E fl OF BOOKS Book I: ADMINISTRATION-the Governing Officers of the University, the Deans of the Schools and their Faculties, and the Stu- dent Administrative Officers. Book II : CLASSES — The Student per- sonnel. Book III: ACTIVITIES — Alumni, Publications, Debate, Mu- sic a nd Drama, and Dream Life — a Photographic Review of the Year. Book IV: ATHLETICS Football, Basket Ball, Baseball, Track, and Minor Sports. Book V: UNIVERSITY WOMEN— Our Queens of Beauty, and the Special Activities of Women Students. Book VI : MILITARY-the Officers of the R. O. T. C. Unit. Book VII : ORGAN- IZATIONS — the Honorary, Professional, and Social Fraternities, and Religious and General Organizations. Book VIII: THE HELL-BOX, in which the Savitar Staff has its fling.