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Regent Grcgor, Vnd early students had been required to sien anti fraternity pled * on entering the University. Sigma Chi, disguised und ' ,i " n - e "Tautologieal T a u t o ^ |876b) lifted the ban on all fraternities. Pi Beta Phi and Kappa Alpha Theta first sororities, were 01 inized in 1895. the A yearbook called the Sophograph, made up of essays and a few crud, drawings, reflecting heavy-handed bucolic wit, was first put out by the sopho came out the following year. In the early m o r c s in 1882, and the Saturnian nineties the juniors took over with tin- Ulio. Another publication which first appeared then was the Technograph, published by an engineering society. Thomas Arkle Clark, a professor of rhetoric, was often called on by President Draper to aid in disciplinary cases. He developed such a flair for handling students that the President appointed him Dean of Undergraduates— the first such deanship in the world. Years later when it was learned that Dean Clark had turned down a job that would have taken him away from Illinois. 2.000 students staged a spontaneous parade of jubilation in the streets. His name is 1 ndary among the alumni who knew him. One of the many stunt night ditties written about him remains a minor classic: Oh, the dean of men and women At dear old Illinois [fi a father to the girls And a mother to the boys. I [c looks out for their morals Especially after dark, ()nr matriarchal, patriarchal Thomas \rkle ( .lark. r
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