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Caption: Book - Banks of the Boneyard (Charles Kiler)
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Escapades 51 a number of years. I enjoyed working with "Jimmie" Crawford and think he possessed a good understanding of student problems. I had Professor Rolfe in geology and physiology. Our faculty had to work to earn their small salaries in the '8o's and 'go's and Rolfe was far from lazy. There was no such thing as sabbatical leaves of absence and Professor Rolfe expected work from his students and got it. I regret very much that I had no work under Dr. Stephen A. Forbes or Professor Arthur N. Talbot; both were great men, loved by their students, inspired teachers, and ranked among our all-time great faculty men. Teachers of their calibre don't come along more than once in a lifetime. Altogether, it can be said that the faculty in my time was a most excellent one. We had good teachers, great men pioneering in research and securing results of tremendous importance with equipment not always of the best. Most of our faculty had the love and respect of the student body, but somehow or other Regent Peabody failed to win the confidence of the students. Personally I got along well with him and regretted very much the indignities some of the students displayed toward him. There was very little fun in our drab lives, and no place at all to work out either the surplus enthusiasm of youth or the growing animosities of those who didn't like the regent. Here are the words of a song expressing a sentiment altogether too prevalent in those days: There is an old doctor who lives in this town, Peabody is his name. He owns a few boys whom he likes to keep down, Peabody is his name. PEABODY, PEABODY, PEABODY, Peabody is his name. As I have said before, unwise and even foolish restrictions were placed on the student body. If the regent and the faculty didn't believe in dancing or card playing, they might at least have remembered that there was a decided difference of opinion about such entertainment, and might have given the students the benefit of this difference. Of course we could have dances in down-town halls, but to give as a reason for refusal to allow dancing on University property the statement, 'There is an unwritten law in Illinois prohibiting dancing m
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