Caption: Sophograph - 1890
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TH1 (JFHO'.HAPH, u M. ' ble, the quality of students ;uu\ of work done. The name of a man who comes to them with • B "Industrial" which BO long conveyed to the public the idea other title attached to his name, and it does « <" " > a second grade high school or an asylum for refractory reason. The word "graduate^ f children, in l v~> was exchanged for the title winch the University now bears. ft j: sv many, but to the illiterate it impli theological, or otherwise. More I an m\ '** l | i • of every subject under the sun—scientifi the idea of the ability to talk intelligentlj s paration upon any subject. To I n < man who can make an intei \ and pleasi'i A university may not hope to gain a reputation and power in a day. Our own institution is no exception to the rule. In twenty year-, we should not expect t » gain the < fame and influence < f an institution ten tin aa old. It is > ometimes hard to wait, but steady growth is more permanent than a sudden and phenomenal development. In many respects the advantages offered by tin* University of Illinois re excelled bv those of no other institution in the east or m t. while in some particular -he has desirable feat a n which even larger and older institutions do not possess. W e have an institution of which we should all feel proud: a genuine university; a faculty, me of whose nam. are res i z e d and honored not only in America, but in Europe, ud also a body of ddents who in mental ami moral cjualifittions are i inferior to tin of any institution in our land. mi unexpectedly called upon to "mat ifewren claim to be educated, but the man wl Is mself i to J pond to invitations oi tl k h ( all :•» educated men. shall hardly convii. above mediocrity. T h e ability to express - tl comes chiefly by thorough pn and t h e J « goes through college without having obtained tlii- •:>• iplii goes to his life-w»rk -burn of half his | 'I he re-- twenty years is a noble one. bet sons ask no more for their Alma .Mater than that she receive the honor justly due her. and the time is coming, slowly though ; it m seem, when hall be universally recognized a- <me he l< ling instil fcioi f the w . < which 1SSS brings yoni \ other moie serious q The j tin citing campaign pi eding .• which are t.» oc year will be largely in^truuieir 1 in | W ITH the rather \ n a r \ i -sibil of leap . ' ference > the young man who 1 f pr- lent, The doctrines ad> wholly without found ion, and * for each udenta generally t\ic idea obtains that follow literary pu iit> need t) rain iT < paryi Non-so.e-t\ men. wh ask'd wh\ • n • In a iety, m -r that the worl ill provi uel al to them. Nothing could be ruth. The general public expects much al par .in* i . A MONIi say which shall Inn • , , . . . Th»* t' iQperani -• < p m foi notice, shall it be brought i Several advant 's of , | fr,.. f t«»I *, t h#» v . » ! la problem itating tlie }>oopli Tl iese. and many her uuesl party i*sue. Which are th.-^reaii 1 I 1 1 • Ul uill
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