Repository: UIHistories Project: Illio - 1895 [PAGE 172]

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Editorial • • • •

'"THE ILLIO is at last before you. Many thing's -*- have combined to delay its appearance. As the greeting- sets forth, we are sailing- upon an unknown sea, without a chart or a compass to g-uide us. The University of Illinois students, so advanced in other thing's, have been far behind in the matter of an Annual. Our athletic teams and musical clubs, which help to enliven student life and carry the name of the University far and wide, have travelled over the west, and we are proud of them. And from now on we hope to have an Annual which shall take its proper place in the University and do its share towards booming our Alma Mater. All agree that the Sophograph, which has annually appeared for the past ten years, has outlived its usefulness. It will take time to arouse the college spirit to the point where the students will support an Annual in the same way that they support athletics, and in the same way that they are beginning to support the musical organizations. But it is coming; without it this can never be a great or true university. We take this opportunity to thank the class for its hearty support, without which we could not have succeeded. And to the board whose faithful work has produced the book before you, adieu. No more will we meet and ask the question which for the last two months has been hurled at us many times daily, "When will it be out?" The original board has suffered many losses; the business manager was the first to leave, the athletic editor followed soon after, and then as the wheels were just beginning to revolve smoothly, the editor-in-chief departed for Ann Arbor, and the second athletic editor returned to his home. To the Professors who have so kindly assisted us on committees, and especially to the Professor of English Literature, whose advice was of such great benefit, we wish to offer our sincere thanks, and to the incoming Annual Board we extend greetings; may you take up the work and improve it until T H E I U J O of the University of Illinois shall be second to no college annual in this country.

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T h e University of Illinois has always been particularly noted as an engineering school, and as such has taken a high rank among institutions of a similar character. T H E I L U O will probably emphasize this fact, as most of the student organizations represented are in the College of