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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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200 THE UNIVEBSITY FINDS ITSELF tive business of the State.*' Finally, of course, the sheer momentum of increasing registration had its due effect. The beginnings of the administration saw student life emerging from its small collegq atmosphere; by the end the large enrollment had made it approximately what it is today, with the many peculiar features derived from the association of thousands of students in a very small community, over a hundred miles from any large city, in an environment where nature contributes little to undergraduate amusement. Draper and the faculty, members of which he constantly asked to assist him in student guidance, did much to cast this life in the right mold, and relations between students and teachers were much healthier than before, simply because they were larger and freer. At the outset of his administration the President obtained, in convocation, the choice of orange and blue as University colors in place of the old black and gold, and there was something symbolic in this adoption of the more vivid, decisive hues. As a disciplinarian Draper excelled. On first coming he told the students that they felt too much loyalty to the classes, too little to the institution; and he warned them with some effect against the hazing and the riotous celebrations that hurt the struggle for appropriations. When early in 1897 there occurred a FreshmanSophomore clash of serious consequences, he enforced the University regulations in a memorable way. The sophomores set upon the freshmen one January night as the latter were attending a class supper at an Urbana hall, and a young woman was temporarily blinded by a foulsmelling chemical thrown among the guests; two students were arrested, and after an uproar the others were dispersed by the fire department. The Council
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