Caption: Magazine - Illinois Magazine Selections #1 (1923)
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* * Mini I hrough Half a Century f ( >>nt'nun (j front Page journalism lias CO-Operated with th Six) ff bj ing n tera i id In an advisory cai w n \ I i sought. It would hardly be \ for the lllini ov- r to \ omc the publi< tion of the departm t of journalism, b» use it would then ce. ) be what it has always tried to be—a student TH p r. I t would then become an official journal, a oratory, a publication for which the University luthorities would be rigidly responsible. As an organ of undergraduate opinion, the lllini ha always been back of every great movement, though seldom the originator of such movements. I t has campaigned vigorously for reforms throughout its existence, generally \s$sely and well. I t aided in s u p pressing rowdyismxtind hazing; in obtaining Univ rsity colors, the chirhes, the Homecoming celebration, md the Union builtling; in creating a finer type of sportsmanship and a higher ethical consciousness. I t has always ben sincere. I n its most obstreperous moments it has been fighting for right and t r u t h s its management saw them. There have been two noticeable tendencies of th< e later days t h a t exemplify this fine enthusiasm for betterment. There h a s been a continual striving r journalistic form, though it is carried to spectacular extremes at times; and every editor has felt that it Is his moral duty to reform something. O asionally he has a wretched time h u n t i n g up an i >m juently m a k i n g himself pretty ridiculous. The lllini of the future should realiy With inoi • isIng cleann* t h a t they repXH nt a community and that they arc responsible to that community in a wa> that a privately owned public, noral pa] r is not; that Tiie J ily lllini is t t a "hou o r p i n " of th< tUdentS of the Unlvei ty; that the editors have Q < right to i 38 their extreme private convictions ply because th«\ have a publicity m Hum. since that medium does not belong to them; that thej should always attempt to refl t th lust student opinion, to them, lit I! lat< it, and oallte that thi ugh lurship and I'niv lt3 Ol well an through H, Will the fitftt.' profound judge U. \H.
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