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Caption: Book - History of the University (Nevins)
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THE UNDERGRADUATE YEAR 319 fencing sustain with some difficulty the interest in athletics. The post-exam jubilee, founded in 1901 to assist Christian Association work, falls in the intersemester vacation, and is given before a packed Auditorium—a sort of college "Follies.'' In alternate years the electrical show is held in February at an expense of perhaps several thousand dollars and on floor space of 40,000 square feet, with exhibits running from an electrical kitchen and complete electrical railway to an electric calendar and such devices as one which fries an egg on ice. The Military Ball comes, perhaps with the Governor in attendance, the Student opera, the Irish banquet, the smokers that used to hurt the reputation of the University among haters of tobacco, and perhaps a legislative inspection, with as determined an effort to parade the University's weaknesses as is ordinarily made to conceal them. At some time during the year the Senior engineers start for their inspection of Middle Western engineering establishments and advanced library students are distributed among municipal libraries for practice work. Spring is the season that treats the Illinois landscape most kindly; and in May the carefully gardened campus, with the soft haze of morning over it, is a scene of delight. The student body wakes to its greatest activity. There is a steady succession of baseball victories on Illinois Field, the bleachers crowded and not too complacent to cheer. The tennis courts are filled from early morning till the last light has gone at night, the chorus of the physical director's proteges echoes from the open gymnasium window, and the brigade, now attaining a fine polish in drill, grounds arms in a glittering line across the south campus as the band plays. At night a short band concert draws thousands
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