1905-06 Volume 30 No 1–5 - Phi Delta Theta Scroll Archive

THESCROLL.his more fortunate classmates from year to year to his dearalma mater, was stunned with amazement at what he beheld..The buildings, the athletic field, the campus—everything,were so unlike anything he had known, when he was in schooland played practical jokes on the "profs" and wrote questionableclass annuals. Instinctively his mind turned backthrough many long toilsome, but not entirely fruitless yearsto the day he first entered the university. He recalls withsome degree of pride that he was one of the first class tograduate from the university—the class of 72." VividlyTHE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IN Ihis mind pictures anew the first glimpse he obtained of thecampus. Before him the University of Illinois lay in itsswaddling clothes. He could see the old shambling brickstructure to which he had in those early days made his dailypilgrimage to the altar of learning; the old knife-eaten fencewhich surrounded it; and, perhaps with a wry grimace at therecollection, a vision of the old fashioned barns, the gardensand the farm arose in his fancy. Stimulated by a slight tingeof disappointment and a longing for the old-fashioned famil-