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Caption: Book - Banks of the Boneyard (Charles Kiler)
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CHAPTER ONE I Join a Literary Society and Do Some Organizing I S R A E L ZANGWILL, British novelist, once said that the only truths in the written histories are the dates. He insists that the details are written by biased minds, or taken from old records which were written by partisans; that the novelist comes closer to telling the truth when he dresses up the characters in the costumes of the times depicted and places them in the atmosphere of the period. I have seen some history made in my time, have been a party in a modest way in the making of some of it, and think there is much to be said for Zangwill's viewpoint. Class spirit manifested itself at Illinois back in the days of the Illinois Industrial University. Old-timers like E. N. Porterfield '72, Senator Henry M. Dunlap '75, and Frank I. Mann '76 have told me of tricks played on each other and on the faculty by the boys of those far-off days. Our much-respected friends, Professor Arthur N. Talbot and Charles H. Dennis, both '8i, and Judge Henry L. McCune '83, have told me their versions of the military row and the class fight that developed over the tree planted by '81 which was tarred and feathered by the villains of '82 and '83. They were "he-men" in those days. Boys who have since become men of great distinction sat up nights guarding the tree with shotguns. The successor of this tree is now a stately elm standing close to the new Union Building. Unrest developed among the students, which finally led to the changing of the name of the University, to the establishment of elective courses of studies, to reestablishing fraternities, to the development of athletics, and in general to the building of a great University. The bill introduced into the Legislature of Illinois to change the name of the University was written and sponsored largely by Judson F. Going '83, a prominent lawyer in Chicago. There was a clause in it permitting fraternities on the campus, but this had to be eliminated to get the bill passed. Very few members of fraternities were 9
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