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Caption: Booklet - Alumni Fund for the Alma Mater Statue
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If the University of Illinois had never done anything more than to produce Lor ado Taft, it would have justified all of the millions that the State has expended in its upbuilding and maintenance . . . iiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiaiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiUHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiitiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiii (0 SPOKE President James before the legislature Vwhen urging the University's appropriation bill, and in that estimate of the artistic worth of our great sculptor alumnus he voiced the sentiment of the contemporary artists of the world. We are justly proud of our great fellow alumnus, and we miss no opportunity to claim with him a common bond in the University of Illinois, but if, when extolling the merits of our great brother, we were asked what examples of Taft's work adorn our campus, we might answer, if we were wise, that there are, or were, in the nonfireproof halls of the literary societies an "Excelsior," a "David and Jonathan" and a bust of Professor Snyder, all in plaster and all of which were made some forty or fifty years ago. Nothing more permanent, nothing more recent. Nothing more. Nothing in enduring bronze, placed where it will daily catch the eyes of the throngs of passing students, leaving its subtle impress on their plastic minds and
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