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Caption: Book - Banks of the Boneyard (Charles Kiler)
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44 On the Banks of the Boneyard much a petition for a dance was based on this prejud excuse which had no foundation in fact. Every There is an unwritten law" we got sore grounds because we knew this statement to be The students who were remaining over being for Commencement quietly went ahead with preparations to give the lumber Armory night and ramps were made from the loot, so that an open window let the orchestra and the dancers into the building. It was then dispower because did this deter the belles of the ball? bottles with candles in them placed a Waterloo plenty of light. Like Napoleon's so likewise to hell sang, "On with the dance, let joy t tt in dancing. I with the faculty and trustees who don't bel wasn't there to see the tragic end of this dance, but eye witnesses furnished graphic descriptions. Along about midnight when the joy heavv east doors to the Armory were swung open Peabody guns and Jehosaph his entrance was entirely unexpected by the dancers than the rest had anticipated such an eventuality, and had stationed themselves in a dark corner near the big door with a fire hose, had already arranged for fire pressure, and I regret to report turned a powerful stream of water on poor Dr. Peabody, hitting him amidship and washing him out of the building. Eager hands reached for the beer bottles, strong lungs blew out the candles, and the merry dancers faded away in the dark singing "P-e-a-b-o-d-y, Peabody is his name." When the University opened the following September two wellknown students failed to return to their scholastic duties at Illinois. Thus was the Armory dedicated according to plan! If this outburst of animosity had ended with the dance and the desecration of Dr. Peabody's sterling figure, it would have been tragic enough, but I have said many times that there were goons and ruffians in our University, and on June n , 1889, there appeared on the campus a Bogus Program, nauseating in character, editorially anonymous, insulting and degrading in description of those whose characters it sought to ruin. Time softens the contemnt riakt. < < . . . m • • . • • «
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