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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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THE UNDERGRADUATE YEAR 317 ternity alumni to help win to membership the freshman with money, athletic promise, or other engaging qualifications, the fraternity houses thronged at night with chatting men, and the windows thrown open at dinner upon hospitable tables. By the end of a fortnight the strenuous competition has resulted in the pledging of 300 men. Four o'clock sees at one end of the campus sagacious groups following the squads that dive for the ball or that face each other in the first line-up. At the other the sophomores are holding in line the awkward freshmen who have become the matrix of the brigade, and junior and senior officers bellowing their outraged commands at marching awkwardness. "One! One! One!" Near by the first and second class teams are scrimmaging, the runners file away over the prairie, and the tennis courts are alive with white figures. On the campus walks gather groups lobbying for class elections, and at the corners wait boarding-house commissaries, and solicitors for the Y. M. C. A. and Athletic Association; while from the Ittini office a dozen competitors for staff places issue at once. The bulletin boards are bedecked anew, the store exhibits are freshened, and on one of the fine days the student body blackens upper Burrill Avenue and is swallowed into the Auditorium for the first convocation. Perhaps once may occur a good-natured mauling of some freshman who has dispensed with a green cap, or a caricature of the greenhorn emerge in rustic clothes and with carpetbag seeking a cheap room at the fraternity houses. Two thousand new students are learning the University yells, and realizing that the p a t r o l ism that goes into shouting for Illinois represents not merely the institution but the State. A little later comes the sorority pledge day, ending M«B5
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