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Caption: Dedication - Memorial Stadium Drive Book #2
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Go out to the football field in the afternoon and feel again breathless suspense as you watch varsity practice, feel again hopes and fears. Drop into the new plant of the 11 lint on Green Street and watch the big presses turn out the greatest college newspaper in America; see the Associated Press reports come in; see the scores of young reporters intent on making good. Tomorrow7 these children will sway governments. See Homecoming again; you make it the biggest day of the year for them, and they make it the biggest day of the year for you. The mass meeting. Hobo band. The big game. And the winter, with examinations, basketball, the Prom, the Ag Dance, the Military Ball, and the rest of it. And spring, with the haze of morning sunshine over the campus. Tennis from dawn to sunset; quiet strolls in the evening, often with girls; baseball and peanuts and victory for Illinois; military drill, a magnificent sight with thousands of cadets; the band concert in the gloaming. Can't you see it all over again? Interscholastic, and the Circus. Has ever any student not laughed at the Circus? And the May fete, with the red sun sinking over the old west bleachers and the long shadows of hundreds of girls, costumed in many colors, shifting gracefully about the beribboned May-poles, and, while the band plays as evening approaches, dancing a welcome to May and to summer. And then, Commencement . . . . And, after that, memories—memories clustered mainly around old Illinois Field . . . . PJB5?rag?CT^M^lPi^MM a i i "The last bell has rung . . . . and now the campus is almost deserted" WAY W O O D Y , *96 '' The Stadium dedicates Illinois to the proposition that its sons will have physical betterment. The spirit engendered will lastingly benefit the Commonwealth and its own University." E. D. (Dave) BROWN, '21 " / carried the Stadium slogan on a touring car from Urbana to Pasadena, California, and back. I only wish 1 could have carried it around the world." R A L P H WOODS, ' 1 7 ' " / never met an alumnus of a University that has built a Stadium who wasn't glad that he had a Part in the movement. I shall be glad to do all I can for the Illinois Stadium." S V E N D U N E R . 'IS JUSTA M. "A Stadium that will L I N D G R E N , *02 enable the athletic offi- "Our subscription to the cers to carry out 'G' Stadium fund is an exHuff's intra-mural sys- pression of gratitude to tem is certainly a worthy the brave men who died project, to say nothing for us and to our alma of the benefit to varsity mater who has done so athletics." much for us." ntra?r«^ • ?
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