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THE PAYMENT SCHEDULE IS SIMPLE AND CONVENIENT

OU don't pay a cent until January 1, 1922. Then, if you have subscribed the regular quota, which is $100, you have 2XA years in which to pay. The payments will be due every 6 months, on January 1 and July 1 of each year, ending on July 1, 1924. Each payment will be $20. If you have subscribed $200, which is the honor quota, you have 5 years in which to pay. The payments will be due likewise every 6 months. Each payment will be $20. The last payment will come on July 1, 1926. If you have subscribed more than $200, you pay one-tenth of your total subscription every 6 months for 5 years. Do not send the Athletic Association a check or money in any form. You will be called on by alumni who are voluntary solicitors and you will be given cards to sign. If you live far from an Illini organization, you will receive cards in the mail. When you sign these cards, you will get a receipt. That is all you have to do until January 1, 1922, when the first payment is due. With each $100 pledge you receive an option on one good seat in the Stadium for 10 years, or on 2 good seats for 5 years. As your subscription increases, the number of seat options increases in the same ratio. A $200 subscription entitles you to 2 seats for 10 years, or 4 seats for 5 years. And so on. Memorial columns may be subscribed for and dedicated to any Illini who died in the war. Such a subscription is fixed at $1,000. It entitles you to a bronze tablet on the column with your name inscribed upon it. It also entitles you to an option for 10 years on 20 seats, or for 5 years on 40 seats. None of the options will be maintained longer than 10 years. Please get out a pencil tonight. Reread this page carefully, and figure how much you can afford to subscribe to your alma mater for a memorial Stadium and recreation field. Do not, under the influence of your enthusiasm for your University, promise more than you are sure you can afford to give. Stadium subscriptions should be given with an untroubled mind. When you have gone over the figures carefully, make your decision, so that you will know exactly what to do when you are asked to build that Stadium for fighting Illini.

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THE PROPOSALTO ERECT A STADIUM SHOULD COMMEND ITSELF TO EVERY ILLINOISAN" says EX-GOVERNOR EDWARD F. D U N N E

" SINCERELY HOPE THAT 1 THIS NOBLE CONCEPTION SOON MAY BECOME AN ACCOMPLISHED FACT," says EX-GOVERNOR. FRANK O. LOWDEN

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H E proposal to erect a Memorial Stadium dedicated to the memory of the Illinois dead in the World War is one which should commend itself to every Illinoisan, and particularly to the students and alumni of our great University. As outlined, the program will furnish to our University one of the greatest, if not the greatest, Stadium and athletic fields in the world. T h e students of the University have already shown a magnificent spirit in subscribing seven hundred thousand dollars to the total of two million needed for the completion of this noble enterprise. I have not the slightest doubt but t h a t the alumni and friends of the University throughout the state and nation will do their part within the next few weeks in completing a subscription of two million. As designed, this Stadium will not only furnish badly needed

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H E great institution of learning maintained by the State of Illinois a t Urbana is to be enriched and augmented by the erection of a magnificent Stadium and Recreation Field, the gift of the alumni of the University. T h e University of Illinois ranks among the first in the United States, and it is contemplated t h a t the proposed arena for athletics and sports shall also take first place among the stadia of the country. This gift is a generous and fitting testimonial of the affection in which the graduates hold their alma mater.1'

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facilities for athletics in the University, b u t will establish a monument to the patriotism of Illinois to which every Illinoisan can point with pride."

EDWARD F. DUNNE.