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Caption: Course Catalog - 1873-1874
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50 Illinois Industrial University. with their proficiency in it as in other studies. Nothing is paid for it. Remunerative Labor is prosecuted for its products, and students are paid what their work is worth. Those desiring employment must join the Labor Classes, which go out four hours each alternate day. The maximum rate paid for farm, garden and shop labor is ten cents, and for that about the buildings and ornamental grounds, eight cents per hour. Efficient students, who desire to earn more money, can often obtain work for extra hours; or they may be allowed to work by the piece or job, and thus, by diligence or skill, secure more. Some students, who have the requisite skill, industry and economy, pay their entire expenses by their labor; but, in general, young men cannot count upon doing this at first, without a capital to begin with, either of skill, or of money to serve them till a degree of skill is acquired. With this, however, and with a judicious use of time during vacations, many students have been able to meet tneir entire expenses. STUDENTS' ORGANIZATIONS. UNIVERSITY BATTALION — Commander, Colonel Edward Snyder; Captains, W. W. Wharry, I. P. Dobson, James Faulkner, William Watts, W. S. Everhart, F. M. Palmer. University Cornet Band—Fifteen instruments ; Henry S. Dunlap, Leader. LITERARY SOCIETIES—Adelphic — C. P. Jeffers, Pres.; W. Mackay, Sec. Philomathean — V). Mackay, Pres.; H. H. Tyndale, Sec. SCIENTIFIC ASSOCIATION — C. C. Syford, Pres.; E. Walker, Sec. Alethenai—Miss M. E. Stewart, Pres.; Miss Jennie Baker, Sec. CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS— Y. M. C. A.— C. P. Jeffers, Pres.; R. H. Hannah, Sec. MUSICAL SOCIETIES—University Choir — C. E. Elliott, Chorister; Miss A. Cheever, Organist. Apollothemesians , Pres. ; , Sec. GYMNASIUM CLUB — D. Barnard, Leader; James Faulkner, Treas. STUDENTS' GOVERNMENT. EXECUTIVE.— J. L. Pierce, Pres.; A. E. Barnes, Sec.; W. Mackay, Marshal. JUDICIARY.— F. P. Dobson, Chief Justice; J. R. Mann and D. E. Barnard, Associate Justices ; F. E. Wright, Prosecuting Attorney. LEGISLATIVE.— George Kenower, President of Senate; C. Weston, Secretary of Senate. UNIVERSITY UNIFORMS. Under the authority of the act of incorporation, the Trustees have prescribed that all the male students, after their first term, shall wear the University uniform. The University cap is to be worn from the first. This uniform consists of a suit of cadet grey mixed cloth, of the same color and quality as that worn at West Point, and manufactured by the same establishment. Students can procure them ready-made on their arrival here. The University cap is of dark blue cloth, and is
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