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Caption: Book - 16 Years (Edmund James)
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182 Sixteen Years at the University of Illinois campus theater. Also the literary societies for many years presented a play. Various programs are given by other organizations in the course of each year, such as the Post Exam Jubilee and the Girls' Stunt Show, consisting of a series of farces or similarly improvised dramatic sketches. ATHLETIC The athletic interests of the University are cared for by the Athletic Association, a mixed faculty and student organization. The real power of the Association rests with its Board of Control, consisting of three members of the faculty, three alumni who are not members of the corps of instruction, the director of athletics, and the regular officers of the Association, namely, the president, secretary-treasurer, and the managers of the football, track and baseball teams. For the last few years vigorous attempts have been made to promote athletic activity among the entire student body. The movement has met with increasing success due to a greater interest in inter-class, inter-society and inter-fraternity contests, or briefly intra-mural athletics. However, the most notable progress was made in the spring of 1918, when the coaching staff of the University of Illinois introduced a new form of intercollegiate competition know as mass athletics. The first contest was held on May 25, and was participated in by Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Notre Dame and Illinois. Each school conducted its own athletic meet upon the home field and under the direction of local officials. All bona fide undergraduate students, regardless of academic standing, were eligible to compete in any or all events, and a system of scoring was devised whereby each competitor's efforts counted toward the mass score of the institution no matter how poor his performance might be. This new form of activity promises to develop in a more extensive way than ever bofore the competitive instinct and to insure a more universal participation in intercollegiate athletics by the entire student body. In the year 1919-20, regular schedules were maintained in baseball, basket-ball, track, football, and swimming. The numbers taking part in these
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