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Caption: Book - Banks of the Boneyard (Charles Kiler)
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26 On the Banks of the Boneyard company slept in the Burlington station, and the other half, to which I belonged, was lucky enough to be quartered in a Presbyterian church on 22nd street; we slept in luxury on the cushions in the pews of the church, while our pals slept sitting on hard seats in the railroad station, or lying on the still harder stone floor. We had Enfield rifles with bayonets, and our business was to help guard the city at night to prevent looting and the starting of more fires. We slept during the day, and were on duty for one week when General Sheridan came from Omaha with the regulars to relieve us. It was quite an experience for us boys who were not far out and age—in man graduated in '72. served service the Universitv Recriment rendered at the Chicago Unrest and dissatisfaction developed among the students quite early in the history of the University. I have already alluded to trouble in Dr. Gregory's regime over student government and fraternities, but with the first military rebellion in 1880 the student body began to resent and fight against nonsensical restrictions. The faculty passed a rule that no student should be eligible for a commission as an officer in the regiment "unless he was conspicuous in scholarship and gentlemanly bearing. He must have a unanimous faculty vote, and appointments must not exceed five a year." This ruling created such a disturbance among the students that it had to be rescinded, but the trouble it created, plus all of his other! added another weight of woe to Dr. Gregory. Farmers through their organizations said they thought ours was to be their University ; engineers thought it was to be theirs; the regent had added a Domestic Science department—the first in the country; also had started a class in calisthenics for the girls—again pioneering in a new field; he was building up the department of Literature and Art also but the opposition of farmers, engineers, students, preachers and too much for him, and no one conversant with the Gregory for resigning. been physics—and a very good one too. Most perience before coming to the University had been as a teacher and high school superintendent; also he was an editor for a short t; m * * • »
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