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of the Service. We have not dishonored them in the Great War. Of the former members of the battalion who have distinguished themselves, I am not permitted to speak. Their deeds will be found in another article. But our list of commandants would be incomplete without the names of Captain Frank Eager, '93, afterwards Colonel of the First Nebraska Regiment, U. S. Volunteers, and Captain Charles Weeks, '98, now Colonel and chief of the historical section of the General Staff. And lastly, we cannot forbear tribute to Major (Dean) O. V. P. Stout, who has a special place in our affections. He has shown that his long interest in the battalion was not a mere academic one, and that the students' confidence in him for many years was not misplaced.
GUERNSEY JONES.
ORGANIZATIONS
In the early days of the University, the "literary societies" were the chief centers of life outside the class-rooms. Their weekly meetings on Friday night had no rival save a rare "show" at the old Centennial theatre, or later at the old Oliver. The manifold attractions which now compete for the presence of the student a Friday evening were non-existent. The literary societies have never lost their vitality and they still fill definite niches in college life; but neither they nor any other organizations of a single type could again have anything like their, old-time monopoly.
The earliest literary society to be organized on the campus was the Palladian, founded in the autumn of 1871, soon after the University opened. Its purpose, in the quaint phraseology of the preamble of its first constitution, was "to help build up and perfect the moral and intellectual capacities and in like manner the social qualities." Only the first and part of the second story of University Hall were in use for a time, and the Palladians held their meet-
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