University of Utah - Utonian Yearbook (Salt Lake City, UT)

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ll l i 5 , , f In any direction here there is scenery which may distract even the most signlefminded golfer. Smooth green lawns stretch up to jagged foothills, and in the distance they can sometimes see the glitter of the lake. In the spring sunfbathing sorority girls also add to and improve the view.

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and oly r mvlhng greens of the , -1.1 . , - w Ducking at the call of fore, nature-lovers sometimes infvacle the golf course for lunch or last-minute cramming. In the spring even faculty members may be found whacking those little white balls around the greens.

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stands the . . l Back in the days when there was no Annex, no Homecoming, and, believe it or not, no Utonian, there was a great deal of class spirit. Every year the campus would break out in a rash of class numerals, which were painted on every available surface. In the spring of 1905, the class of aught-seven, the really remarkable class which published the first Utonian andsponsored the first sack rush, had a brand new idea. Under the leadership of Carl Scottg Stayner Richards, who was student body presidentg and Richard Hart they planned to put their mark on a large pile of black shale just north of the present block U. One day in April, when a trusting pro- fessor was lare to class, they seized their opportunity. Of course the other classes immediately retaliated, and for the next few days school practically stopped as the battle raged and the numerals became a smear of sevens, eights, and nihes. Finally someone proposed a compromise, a' large U. On the first U Day in April, 1905, the entire student body climbed the hill and installed in lime the first block U. Of course the life of the lime U ended when winter began, and two years later the same class promoted their plan for a permanent concrete emblem. After l three days of strenuous effort fall the materials were hauled from town on mules borrowed from Fort Douglas and the concrete was mixed by handl the project was completed. The appearance of the sym- bol was considered a minor scandal in some circlesg one prominent clergyman even preached a sermon on the desecration of the mountain, and many news- papers printed editorials berating the students. They, however, were unperturbed, and their work remained. Today the U, which is warped to fit the hill and still give the impression of a symmetrical monogram, is a hundred feet high and contains a hundred cubic yards of concrete. It is thought to be the very first of all such insignia and has a certain distinction be- cause of that fact. But the U's most outstanding characteristic is not its age or its popularity as a model for other such emblems or its interesting history. 'For the forty-one college generations who have climbed the hill to repair its white surface it is a symbol of the proud tradition that is Utah. It represents college people from the wide-eyed fresh- man to the student body president and from the C. I. play-boy to the three-point medical student. It has stood guard over them, and it knows them well. i i '45 '- ' - 'Mr -7 'Ti Pu ,-'-gl M 4--'-' 'f f'f -- - .' a '., V T .' l , 1 , J.. Q , 1 Ji a'-f ' .:Hf.l.QLif:-i1,,,, -1 K '- -1'f.-'+'4L5t:1- if ,: f'AU A1 -li' n' , . ' ' , , ' t. ., - ' i ,J..'x - , ' - ' ' ' ' '. - -4- 1 'f ' i+L--4 1- - -i.-- --, Y