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And Theodosia swept into a double barrage <>f Now it conversation about some- Theodosia stopped short, thing that remotely sug- as if she had swallowed gested the Agricultural a fish bone,, or been caught school to burly Buck, the making eyes at the Dean. back. Old Bhunp only This, of course, aroused smiled, the more affably, Buck's curiosity. and forgot all about the "Now if he'd what? condition that Theodosia And say, where do you was going to work him out get all this learned chat of before she led Buck ter? Why don't you talk back to his boarding club. about tomorrow'* For. see Buck just had to chances? You can do it play in that Michigonsin just as well". game, and Theodosia has So Theodosia talked been elected to till the about the coach and four role of Clara Barton. —or no, the eleven, and Saint Bernard, and female about Buck, which she had Daniel in the cause of learned, was the best way Buck who was a whiz at to please a man. None signals, but when it came of the other sisters had to learning Pope's dates 'found that out yet, but seemed always off-side. they hadn't—more of that Of course there were later. any number of adorable Dazzled. Buck there and girls who would have been then asked her to marry delighted to play the pulmotor, but it had been little him. but she merely told him that he was not the Theodosia who had been unanimously elected to take Man, and that his speech was poor. the position, for somehow she always fitted in. But Buck was one of these big, dominant men. especially at conversation, although nobody had been who always get what they go after, whether it be able to find whether she had any definite line. a quart or a quarter-back, and that night he swore In due time, then, she had Winslowed old Bump over Baird's (someone had used the only Bible for free as a bird, into a promise that Buck was to be cigarette papers), that she should lie his'n, and he'd let him, on the mor- or as the rival linesmen would be her'n. row. It is three months later, in the living room of So they left dignitiedly, and Theodosia made a the Rep Rho Betas. All the brothers are trying to quiet boa mot, which the Professor had to admit get to the cigar box and get another handful, be- was as good as Beowulf's famous reply to Hroth fore they shake the masterful hand of Buck, who is gar, and Buck could only wonder dumbly how she trying to look like he had not found a million dollars did it, and thought that he had better ask her to in an old vest. marry him before Blump did. Jack van der Plunks the most popular man in As she sank back into the cushions of Buck's school grasped Buck's hand, and said with as many seven hundred-dollar car, she appeared distrait (no quavers as he could put into his larynx: one of the girls of her acquaintance could appear for you, old man. I didn't think that distrait with quite the finesse of Theodosia, and she "Good you could do it. How did you do it," he went on, would never tell her secret of procedure), and said : failed? I did my damned "Oh, for some absinthe!" "when everybody else had est, rise did I get". •'Well,'' said Buck, "I prefer pea soup myself." and not a At which. Theodosia said condescendingly: (Continued on Page 26) '3724 . *T*. THE ILLINOIS MAGAZINE * Volume Twelve Number One t OCTOBER, 1921 Table of Contents * (i. Huff's Vision Goes Abroad 3 * .Making A College Magazine Douglas Hyde 4 Hard Luck Heinie Robert M. Mount 5 : A Short Story Cornbelt Papers II T. P. Bourland 9 : Confession of Unfaith A Tale of Years Ago K. F. Fearing 11 .Marching to Zion Rose Janowitz 13 t Editorials 14 On the Pleasures of Loafing Agnes Vrooman 1G t The Wine Jug 17 ' A Bit of Informality The Sphinx Phinias Pigge 19 Verse 11. 17, 20. 25, 26 * Cover by T. P. Bourland EDITORIAL STAFF Lem Phillips Editor (Assistants to be announced in the November issue) t V BUSINESS STAFF 0. E. Whiting, Business Manager; Russell Hughes, Ass't. Bus. Manager; John Hawks. Advertising Manager; Elizabeth Bag- i.kri.v. Subscription Manager. Assistants —Vernon Day. 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Huff's Vision Goes Abroad The student Stadium campaign last spring, mark, the other, among alumni, which term has be- when practically |700,000 was pledged to the Mem- come to denote, since active work on the Stadium orial Stadium in less than an hour, though it ap- started, all those who graduated or ever attended peared a tremendously difficult job at the time, the University for at least one semester, or for one was an easy task compared with the undertaking summer term . which Stadium authorities face this fall in seeking Freshmen will be solicited in an intensive to raise the alumni quota amoug the 50,000 grad- drive starting October 8, concluding with a mam- uates and former students of the University, both moth demonstration and celebration on Illinois in America aud abroad. field, October 15, while Zup's Indians are battling Campaigning among the foreign alumni has the University of Iowa at Iowa city. Complete and already started. It opened early in September with minute reports of that game will be flashed to the a broadside of pamphlets, advertising appeals, field. Students who lead the work last spring will pledge cards ami letters, issued by Sampson Raph- again be placed in commnad, and identically the aelson, manager of Publicity, and W. Elmer Ekblaw, same organization will be used. Efforts are being assistant chairman of the executive committee, who, made to secure R. G. Carlson '21, and Anne Cooley by the way, is taking over temporarily some of the '21, last year's student chairmen, to assume com- detail work of executive office held by Robert Zup- plete control, thus allowing other leaders to devote pke, iu order that the little mentor may devote all time and attention to the alumni work. more time to gridiron activities. Stadium leaders The nation-wide alumni campaign, on the success expect a high individual return, proportionately as of which depends whether Illinois is to have the large as the magnificent achievement of foreign stu- world's largest Stadium and recreation field, will dents in the drive on the campus. be launched officially on Tuesday, November 1, con- "You are too far away, perhaps, to realize the tinuing until Saturday. November 5, the afternoon increasing friendliness of the American student to- of the football game with DePauw on Illinois field. ward the foreign students, the intensifying warmth But the real celebration for the campaign will be and augmenting admiration w'ith which the youth held on the following Saturday, Homecoming, fea- of America are turning toward the youth of other turing the Chicago game. It is being held over in countries—largely because of the fine spirit of Loy- order to allow a complete checking of returns from alty which animated the foreign students in the the distant states.