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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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256ITJNIVERSITY AFTER IT FOUND ITSELF at other mid-Western universities. In 1907 was formed a pentangular debating circuit, and this, with the debating league already existing, gave University teams rivals on all sides. The Northern Oratorical League and the Intercollegiate Peace Association offered scope for student orators, while minor contests within the University were retained. The literary societies not only held their own, but increased in number. As for the technical periodicals, the Technograph became in 1911 a quarterly, and the Illinois Agriculturist not only prospered but achieved a State-wide circulation. In 1911, finally, the University's first distinctly humorous publication, the Siren, had its sturdy birth. The interest in dramatics was of an especially praiseworthy character, and there is not space here to enumerate even the prominent performances of a list long enough to atone, in part, for the distance of the University from the metropolitan stage. In 1911, as Mr. T. H. Guild, the patron and guide of the drama, recalled, a senior had had an opportunity to see given by Mask and Bauble, by the literary societies, by the faculty Players' Club, or by the class in dramatic reading, "David Garrick," "Nephew or Uncle," "The Cricket on the Hearth," "The Palace of Truth," "Esmeralda," "The Rivals," "The Honeymoon,"g'Our Boys/^ip'he Taming of the Shrew," "'Op o' Me T h u m b / f r S t Patrick's Day," "Two Strikes," by Mr. Guild himself, "The Two Noble Kinsmen"—the first revival of Shakespeare's and Fletcher's play in over a century, ambitiously given, and others. A graduate student might have remembered the English Club's revival in 1904 of Greene's "Frier Bacon and Frier Bungay," so successful that it was repeated at the installation of President James, and the revival by a literary society of Shirley's 1
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