Repository: UIHistories Project: Booklets - Facts for Freshmen (1914) [PAGE 76]

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when returned; and to perform any other duties

cm helpful Or essential to the keeping of a compln and factorj record of the class and its members. HON J. Hie s e c r e t a r y of the Cla of 1917 shall appoint a woman m e m b e r of the Class of 1917 a n d a male member of the class to he k n o w n as the W o m a n ' s Assistant a n d M a n ' s Assistant Secretary, respectively. T h e s e c r e t a r y and the two assistants shall form a committee with power to receive and dispense money necessary to the care and m a n a g e m e n t of their duties, and shall have complete charge a n d control of the work. T h e y shall a n n u a l l y submit to the advisory c o m m i t t e e a detailed r e p o r t of w o r k accomplished and a financial report. SECTION 4. A n advisory committee shall consist of the Alumni S e c r e t a r y of t h e U n i v e r s i t y of Illinois, and the Dean of W o m e n , and the Dean of M e n . T h i s committee shall audit the financial report of the s r e t a r y , advise him, a n d shall, if they sec lit, declare the position v a c a n t , or the a c t i n g s e c r e t a r y ineligible for reelection.

F o r fifteen or twenty years it has been the custom for the freshman and sophomore classes, early in the fall, to hold a class scrap. In recent years this Class Contest has taken the form of a push hall contest, but in 1913 a sack rare was held. The contest is held on the hack campus under direction of members of the Students' Union. T h e choosing of class colors is in itself a small matter. It will, however, he the source of considerable annoyance later in the life of the class if these colors Class are inharmonious or crude. The colors are Colors seen in the sweaters of the class teams, and they arc combined in the junior cap and in the senior hat. They should, therefore, be pleasing and dark enough to stand the hard constant strain of everylay w tr. Tt has become a pretty well established custom for the fr< ihmen to choose for their colors the color of the last graduating class. For years ftt ihmen have been rec< .nized on the Campus i the Small gi 'n "postage stamp" cap which they wear.

Fraternities and other organizations reThe quire their freshmen to wear these caps.

Green Cap

time

The miiitan department now ah

requires

;,|1 freshmen to \v ar these cap until such s the militarj uniforms shall have arrived, The cus-