Calmness Prevails as Men Enroll; Illini Women Favor Draft

Daily Illini October 17, 1940

Registration Stirs Many Students to Comment

By BOB HAY '42
Western sun rays sifted through a large United States flag hung from the ceiling and focused on a scene yesterday afternoon in the ice rink that was, neither confusing nor exciting. Order prevailed during conscription registration of University men.

As day-long registration moved into late afternoon, several registrars were munching apples, another was reading a newspaper, and the rest of the 250 clerks were adequately registering "men between the ages of 21 and 36," who came neither in droves nor with impatience.

Registration clerks said that busiest hours came at 11 a. m., 3 p. m., and 4 p. m. Fifteen hundred men had registered by noon, they reported.

Despite the apparent calm — perhaps it was a grimness—, those who registered were stirred to collegiate comments. Opinions were expressed as clerks checked certificates of registration before the men were allowed to leave.

Exclaimed one youth as he left the Ice rink:
"I'm enrolled now. I've done my duty for the day." He scanned his certificate of registration, tucked it into his pocket, and sauntered away with three other prospective soldiers.

Said another, as he approached a clerk:
"I want to be a captain."
The reply:
"Several nice berths are still open in the privates', ranks."

One student maintained that the system of registration was inadequate. He said that a method of immediately separating those who will actually be drafted should be developed.

With a tinge of disgust, another registrant commented on registration in relation to European events. "If the German's can't cross 20 miles of the English channel, they can't get through 3,000 miles of ocean," he opined.

Possibilities of actual conscription was an immediate worry to one who registered as a University student. The student, a registration clerk said, is planning to withdraw from the University next semester.

He asked if it were possible that he would be drafted immediately. The clerk answered, "yes." Said the student:
"But my mother always told me to stay out of a draft."

Co-Eds Deem Military Training Necessary for Preparedness

By NORMA ADAMS '43
The draft is favored by University women.

While the University's 4,000 draftees were being registered yesterday in the ice rink, most University women expressed the opinion, that a year's military training wouldn't hurt any man and that it is necessary for the country's preparedness.

A strong minority, however, vehemently denounced conscription as "the most abominable thing that has ever happened to this country," and "certain to get us into more trouble than we're in now."

Typical comments were:
Betty Kiddoo '41: "I think the draft is a fine idea. A year's training won't hurt a soul and will prepare us for any emergency that, might arise."

Carolyne Rutledge '41: "Preparing for a war is the best way to get into one. There is no danger of invasion if we keep out of other people's business. One doesn't need to prepare for peace."

Vivian Peterson '41: "Military training is all right, but with the large number of recruits enlisting such a measure scarcely seems necessary. Will the army have equipment for the drafted men?"

Betty Lou Abrams '41 : "Drafting is the only thing for this country to do. The training will do college students a lot of good, teach them discipline."

Barbara Whitsitt '43: "I haven't thought too much about the draft , but I think we need it. I favor preparedness."

Ann Feder '13: "A year's military training will make college students better specimens of manhood."

Phyllis Borgelt '44 : "It just doesn't seem right that college students should be registering for anything but studies!"

Prof. H. F. Moore Speaks to Lions Club on 'How Metals Fail'; Points Out Various Ways; Gives Remedies

Daily Illini November 5, 1911

"Seventeen railroad rails break every day," said Prof. H. P. Moore of the department of theoretical and applied mechanics speaking on "How Metals Fail" at the Champaign Lions club yesterday afternoon at the Inman hotel.

"Four ways in which we have
failure of metal parts are as follows:

"First the chemical corrosion. This failure of a metal is the least dangerous. Some high grades of steel corrode a little and then build a strong film over the hole. Some of the cheaper types of steel are not able to create such a strong film.

"There are three ways of preventing corrosion. One is to remove the corroding agent. Sometimes as in the case of the water tarffic the corrosion may be remedied by adding certain impurities to the water of which it has been previously lacking. The second way of preventing corrosion is by covering every minute space with paint. The last method is to add chromium to the metal.

"Secondly, the lack of elastic strength has much to do with the failure of metals. While a heavy load is on a beam it will bend. When the load is removed it should come back to its original place. If it does not the beam will finally lose its shape and become distorted. Eventually, if the imperfection is not remedied, the structure will collapse.

"The third cause of the failure of metals is 'creep.' Metals that are subjected to extremely high temperature slowly become distorted. As the distortion increases the structure will become useless. Chromium is being used to remedy 'creep'.

"The fourth way is known as the 'fatigue of metal.' This is the actual fracture Of metal parts or the failure of a metal that has been caused by a repeated load.

JANE ADDAMS TALKS ON LIFE TOMORROW

Daily Illini February 25, 1922

Hull House Founder Will Lecture In Auditorium Under Women's Auspices

Jane Addams, famous all over the world as a social worker, lecturer and author will speak at 2:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon in the Auditorium. Miss Addams will apear under the auspices of the Champaign and Urbana women's club.

Authorities consider Miss Addams the best interpreter of social and political problems and the most prominent American woman now active in public life. Tomorrow she will give her views on "The United States and its Relations to World Problems."

Dr. Hieronymus Entertains
During her brief stay at the University she will be the guest of Dr. H. E. Hieronymus and Mrs. Hieronymus. She will leave late Sunday afternoon for Bloomington where she will speak that evening.

Besides being prominent in public activities, and the founder of the Hull House in Chicago, Miss Addams is the author of "The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets," "A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil," "Newer Ideals of Peace." and other books.

University Hall is Condemned

The university in this story is the University of Illinois.  The University Hall was replaced by the present day Illini Union.

Daily Illini January 25, 1938

SCHOOL'S OLDEST BUILDING ORDERED CLOSED; OFFICES, CLASSROOMS TO BE MOVED

Buildings, Grounds Committee of Board of Trustees Makes Decision; Action is Permanent, Effective Today

University hall, the oldest and most used building on the campus, was condemned as unsafe and ordered permanently closed yesterday by the building and grounds committee of the board of trustees. AH offices and classrooms must be vacated, and students and faculty men will be admitted only, with special permission.

The action followed the collapse of a ceiling in a third floor classroom of the building last Friday. The committee spent yesterday inspecting, the building, and reached its decision late in the afternoon.

The building houses several hundred classes a week, offices of the School of Journalism, the English and psychology departments, The Daily Mini editorial offices, psychology laboratories, the University extension offices, tabulating offices, journalism library, and many faculty offices. All must be vacated aa soon as possible.

The problem of where to locate these offices, and. where to place the classes next semester proved extremely difficult to University officials yesterday. Already cramped for classroom space, the added burden will tax the capacity of the entire University and will require co-operation from every department.

Willard Asks Co-operation
In a statement last night, A. C. Willard, president of the University. pointed out that the closing of the building presented a problem greatly complicated by the continued growth of the enrollment of the University. "Obviously," he said, "any re-adjustment of classroom schedules and re-assignment of office space for departments now housed in University hall will be extremely difficult,"

The ultimate fate of the building was not known last night by University officials. The committee will make further inspections of the building. It may be torn down, may be left standing, or there is a bare possibility that it may be reconditioned and put into further use.

On the building and grounds committee of the board of trustees are Edward E. Barrett, chairman. Walter W. Williams, Oscar G. Mayer, Mrs. Nellie V. Freeman, and Harold A. Pogue. The party which inspected the building was accompanied by C. S. Havens, director of the physical plant department.

Inspect All of Building
They prodded walls and ceilings throughout the building, inspected, the ceiling that had collapsed, and other places known to be weak. They met in late afternoon and made their decision that the 65-year-old building was no longer safe for occupation.

Hundreds of pounds of steel lathing and plaster fell on the unoccupied classroom last Friday, giving warning of what might come. Investigation following the collapse disclosed that ceilings in many parts of the building were in the same condition. In some places plaster fell from the ceiling when prodded.

Numerous repairs have been made on the building in the past few years. Staircases were kept in repair, and the floors in the halls were renovated last summer. The entire inside of the building was painted two summers ago. Last fall termites were found in the basement, and steps were immediately taken to eliminate them.

Has Been Indispensable
Because University Hall is one of the largest buildings on the campus, and the most used, it has been indispensable to the University. Several large lecture halls, including 218 and 315, were housed in the building.

Mr. Willard stated last night that. "any re-adjustment of classroom schedules and re-assignment of office space for departments now housed in University hall will he extremely difficult and will require complete co-operation of all colleges and schools and of all departments in order that the University's educational program may be carried ott with a minimum of sacrifice."

In the University's report to the general assembly on the "Needs of the University for the Biennium. 1937-39," the building was described as "poor and inadequate."

Middle West is Indifferent to Poetry -Weirick

Daily Illini December 4, 1925

English Professor Says No Other Region Has Produced So Much; Sandburg The Greatest

That no region has produced so much poetry and that none is so indifferent to it as the Middle West, was stated by Prof. Bruce Weirick of the department of English, in his lecture yesterday afternoon on the status of poetry in the Middle West

Vachel Lindsay, Carl Sandburg, and Edgar Lee Masters are the three main poets of the Middle West. Two others are Lew Sarett and William Leonard, he said.

Until 1910 this region was poetically dead, with only a few fireside poets as James Whitcomb Riley. But in that year, the work of William B. Moody, a professor in the University of Chicago, and the author of the "Great Divide," became noticeable.

Influenced by Chicago
Three poets —Lindsay, Masters, and Sandburg— were influenced by Chicago, and, in Prof. Weirick's opinion, the spirit of true poetry hasn't yet come on Chicago.

Vachel Lindsay, whose home is in Springfield, writes optimistically of the life and spirit, the noise and "jazz" of America which he loves.

His best poem, "Congo," is a descriptive picture of the negro race, with its tinseled religion.

Prof. Weirick read "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight," which is more serious and impressive. It draws a picture of Lincoln, during the World War, walking through the streets, unable to sleep because of the death and suffering, and neglect of remembrance for him. "The Chinese Nightingale" is Lindsay's most beautiful poem, he said.

Edgar Lee Masters
Edgar Lee Masters writes the "Spoon River Anthology" from the viewpoint of a" cynical lawyer. It is a series of epitaphs of people in a small town; the book was very popular when it was first published in 1915, because of its irony and ability to characterize, and for the authors emotional liberation.

In Prof. Weirick's opinion, Carl Sandburg is the first great poet the Middle West ever produced. He wrote in free verse as a Titanic poet, Prof. Weirick explained, and as a lyricist Sandburg believed in revolutions and loved to celebrate tie strong and big. His pictures of life were kind, however, unlike Masters.

But of these poets, concluded Prof. Weirick, bloomed and did all their work in, 10 years. One of them is now writing prose, but only Lew Sarett is still publishing;, poems.

Pupil Beats Teacher

The teacher did live. The student appears to have avoided legal consequences by leaving the area. January 9, 1905 in the Urbana Courier-Herald.


Fisher Excited Over Attack on E. Knott by Claude Hinton.

Prof. Hickman, principal of Fisher schools, J.L. Hinton, W. W. Vance and many others from Fisher were before the grand jury to tell what they knew of an alleged attack by Claude Hinton upon a grammar room teacher, E. Knott, which occurred on the street of Fisher last Wednesday evening.

According to the story told some difference arose in the school and young Hinton took his books and leaving the school room threatened the teacher. As the latter came from school in the evening. Hinton, he said, made good his threat, with high school boys and residents as witnesses, but none interfered to stop what may yet prove serious, for the teacher has been unconscious a good part ot the time with his head packed in ice. When he was knocked down Hinton, it is alleged, kicked his head and beat him so shamefully he may die. Mr. Knott is spoken of as an excellent Instructor, but rather too mild and gentle for brutal pupils.