UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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JOUBNALISM OF SORTS

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doors at night. And no small place, finally, must be given to dancing, whether the student elects to go to a Union dance for a small admission at College or Bradley's Hall, to a fraternity dance, to a cadet hop, or to one of the grander balls—the Junior Prom or Sophomore Cotillion, when hundreds of dollars are spent on decorations for the old Armory, an orchestra and caterer are brought from Chicago, and 250 couples dance till two o'clock in the morning. Next to athletics, the greatest student effort goes into journalism. If there is a total of nearly 150 men upon the first and second teams in the various sports, there is a total of nearly 100 on the staffs of the various publications. These are unfortunately still less the product of inclusive organizations than they should be, for it is a rare editor or business manager who can persuade more than a half dozen students really to work well. The Mini office was formerly in the Law Building, but it is now in quarters more spacious, if as low and dark, in the basement of University Hall: quarters where with profits of over $5,000 yearly it is replacing dingy and scarred desks, battered typewriters, and worn fileshelves by furniture of more attractive sort. Copy is all turned in and sent to the downtown printing office by nine or ten o'clock, and the heroic editor, thanks to two linotype machines, has usually put his edition to bed by twelve—in contrast to those of former days, who perspired in shirt sleeves at setting heads and arranging forms while the single machine clinked drearily away till two o'clock. The lot of the business manager is easier, for his task of obtaining advertise-? ments from the local merchants can be done;|>y day— and it is a bold and pinchbeck merchant who}||fuses to advertise, The officials have ruled that a full fourth of