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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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206 THE UNIVERSITY FINDS ITSELF "The Rivals,'' "The School for Scandal,'' "Miss Hobbs," and other plays, the English Club gave "Twelfth Night," there was an Opera Club that gave six of the Gilbert and Sullivan operas in succession, a Choral Society that presented "Hiawatha's Wedding Feast" one year and a Christmas Concert another, and an organization with guarantors which supported an annual musical festival in May. Dancing became an amusement of much greater appeal at this time, for while the class dances (long quasi-secret affairs) had been known before Draper came, they were now much more imposing events, and Cotillion, Prom, and Senior and Military Balls were all held with pomp and circumstance in the Armory. Capt. D. H. Brush arranged the first cadet hops in 1896 as a means of breaking the social ice for the Freshmen; and two years later a students' dancing club came into being and held informal dances at stated intervals. A great shaMng-up of student publications came midway in Draper's administration (1899), when he, expressing general sentiment, called for a radical change in the management of several of the periodicals.||The old-style literary mini, he thought, was outworn; in appearing only weekly it could carry no real news, its literary features were poor, and the University's support destroyed its independence of tone. He recommended a semi-weekly or tri-weekly newspaper, to be managed by the students alone, and—by implication—a separate college magazine. He also proposed that a series of University bulletins be instituted under the direction of the Council to embody the results of careful research work, and that the Agriculturist and the Technograph be merged with it. In partial pursuance of these ideas the Illmi appeared that autumn as a tri-
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