Caption: Magazine - English Club The Illinois (1907)
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years tlie freshman l*ti\«• hrni jH-niiiti i, i„ t|i(iir altra-Terd a n t stupi«lit\. t > pm-Mi.- th< ir n ,-„ul < in | it in^ • heir d a n or animations. At ti, \n meet-in the) have l < n left in infantile helpless- | » n. <, entirely iml pend nt and ungnide.l l,v the | wisdom of an> eouneellor, wh< e experience has 1 taught him that the first impulses of a igorous, endurin . id - Kpint must he eng rid id at the initial class meeting. There is no sin e\ nt in the entire career of a da - which worl more | oanent injury to it, o; ies more disruption, friction and final absolute indifference, than these earlj meetings while the class is yet in its embryonic tat It is there that the unity and the individuality of the class is crystallizing out of an inharmonious and disorganized mass of Conflicting el ments. The conduct of a class at its first meeting is too notorious to need extended mention here. A few men with more gain d a little notorbraw iety in an athletic way, are hastily elected u fill the class offices, the beefiest man is elected to 1 ol the « color rush and a committee is speedily appointed to frame a constitution. This l a t t e r committee invariably acts with even more haste than did the class in appointing it, ami with little thought and consideration formulates a set of rules probabl] modelled after a high-school debating society : rules )vcrn the actions of a class during the four years of organic life ! It is in this matter of a constitution that a most disastrous mistake is made. There is generally little or no provision made, for the appointment of committees, no regulations defining their power and functions, nothing definitely providing for the rais.^•1 OI^.K VI VIV l't» II Hi, ^ t it 13
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