UIHistories Project: A History of the University of Illinois by Kalev Leetaru
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STUDENTS AND STUDENT LIFE

the paper must be news matter, a reminder of the day when it was not. As a purveyor of intelligence, the IUini has improved steadily since the filling np of the course in journalism, but the quality of its editorials and its humorous column—the "Chuckler" once, the "Campus Scout" now—depends on the advent of some bright writer. The year book, too, has improved since the selection of editor and manager by a student-faculty board. In its political days the helmsmen of both publications, popularly chosen, were often students with more suavity than brains. But below certain levels the Ulini and Illio, with their fixed traditions, have never fallen. The magazine, the Illinois, while usually fair and sometimes excellent, has twice or thrice descended to a plane where it had better not have been published at all. Its besetting vice is a tendency to exalt journalistic appeal above literary standards. The Agriculturist is edited with more vitality, and its technical articles invariably exhibit special knowledge and care in its presentation, while the constant interest of the faculty assists in keeping its pages full. It is published with an eye to the interests not merely of the college but of the general farming world, and there are many farm journals that contain less of original and valuable matter. To a limited extent it is subsidized by the college. Though a thinner publication, the Technograph is in quality quite as good, for the editorial board prevents it from reflecting the unevenness of the work done in the engineering societies. Its contents are not so amateurish as are many literary papers in the Illinois, nor so scrappy as are many of the contributions to the Agriculturist. The Siren, considering that in years it is a mere infant, haB been remarkably successful. It will doubtless be stable, for as