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THE ILLINI

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hall for dancing. But the Student's long articles on "Turbine Wheels," "Man's Depravity," and "The Common Potato," appearing under a quotation from Irving which proclaimed that in America the elegant arts grow up side by side with the coarser plants of daily necessity, roused a revolt^ We can better its contents by consulting an encyclopaedia, complained the correspondents; why doesn't it retail the numberless incidents which happen in chapel, library, recitation and society rooms, and on the military field and playground, with a full column of personal notes ? And in December, 1873, the Student perished. The next month saw the appearance of the Illini, a monthly at $1.50 a year, under the control of four appointees of the College Government. It, too, had to wrestle against learning and formal literature, for the first issue contained an article upon thermometry in clinical investigations, and it continued the deadly essays upon' t Criticism," " Labor," " Business Integrity,'' and so on, obviously reprints of the papers read by sophomores and upper-classmen in chapel. But from the outset it contained more local news, while in 1877 the literary matter was sharply cut down, and a pungent editorial struek at the faculty insistence* upon "the stolid, hide-bound character" of the paper. The movement proceeded apace, and two years later another editor reduced the space for the literary articles from fourteen to eight pages. In 1880, under a senior who later became an editor of the Chicago Daily News, the Illini appeared as a semi-monthly, in the most attractive dress it had yet borne—a rough facsimile of the Nation. There were twelve four-column pages, and the fresh and vigorous editorials held the first three or four. The editor displaced a large part of the remaining lit-