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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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UNDEBGRADUATE ATMOSPHEEE 207 weekly newspaper, dingily printed but alive and clever —an adequate organ of the University intelligence. A year later the Varsity Fortnightly (subsequently the Illinois) took its place as the college magazine, though it led a precarious existence. .Under its later title it was managed by the English Club and filled with English Club papers.|| The Technograph and the Agriculturist continued to appear in their old form, and continued to improve. The President's idea of the special series of University bulletins bore fruit in the now important University Studies. The four fraternities that existed at the end of the interregnum grew in the decade to thirteen, while there appeared no less than five sororities. All these organizations acquired homes, which, though still only frame structures, helped greatly in solving the housing problem, especially for the girls. These were years of great fraternity influence, for the faculty smiled on the organizations. Four honorary fraternities were also formed during the decade, and each did something to elevate standards of scholarship. In short, the student who was at the University in 1904 saw nearly all the phases of student life, though in elementary form, that are seen by the student today. The chief distinction lay in the existence of a little more of roughness, a little less of social and intellectual refinement. Hazing, for example, was rising to an extreme height, and the sousing of freshmen in the Boneyard at night and the cutting of their hair usually ended only after the color rush in mid-October. The manners of the students, in the fraternities and on the campus, were to change for the betteimBut all the spontaneity of present-day life was there, from the time when the free silver issue called forth the University's own "Boy Orator of the Bone-
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