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12016-03-09T13:19:53-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86"A Suggestion on Student Work"; The Daily Illini; Oct. 7, 19314Like the rest of the nation, the University of Illinois certainly suffered the effects of the Depression. Jobs were especially scarce and students were even forced to sell personal items in order to make money. Elston Herron of The Y wrote in 1931 that “students are selling everything from needles to threshing machines, from electric refrigerators to shoe laces. And they aren’t making any bones about admitting that they’re selling things. The day has passed when fellows were ashamed, for some foolish reason, to admit that they were trying to make a little money in ways other than writing back to the old homestead.” Many students worked all summer in order to save up tuition money for the next school year. They were aware of their family’s economic situations and worked their hardest to be as self-sufficient and sustaining as possible. Instead of being brought down by the Depression, students used it as opportunity and motivation to better themselves. They knew competition for jobs after college was high and they had to push themselves if they wanted to succeed. Despite the extra workload required to make ends meet, student activities flourished; they gathered for parades, football games, dances, clubs, theater, and fraternity and sorority events. (“Student Life in the Great Depression”, Joe Gruzalski, University of Illinois Archives, 2013)media/Daily Illini, October 7 1931.pngmeta2016-04-12T11:18:34-07:00The Daily IlliniOctober 7, 1931Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-09T13:40:00-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86"On Awakening"; The Green Caldron; March 19333Like the rest of the nation, the University of Illinois certainly suffered the effects of the Depression. Jobs were especially scarce and students were even forced to sell personal items in order to make money. Elston Herron of The Y wrote in 1931 that “students are selling everything from needles to threshing machines, from electric refrigerators to shoe laces. And they aren’t making any bones about admitting that they’re selling things. The day has passed when fellows were ashamed, for some foolish reason, to admit that they were trying to make a little money in ways other than writing back to the old homestead.” Many students worked all summer in order to save up tuition money for the next school year. They were aware of their family’s economic situations and worked their hardest to be as self-sufficient and sustaining as possible. Instead of being brought down by the Depression, students used it as opportunity and motivation to better themselves. They knew competition for jobs after college was high and they had to push themselves if they wanted to succeed. Despite the extra workload required to make ends meet, student activities flourished; they gathered for parades, football games, dances, clubs, theater, and fraternity and sorority events. (“Student Life in the Great Depression”, Joe Gruzalski, University of Illinois Archives, 2013)media/The Green Caldron, March 1933, Vol. 2, No. 3.pngmeta2016-04-05T11:38:08-07:00The Green CaldronMarch 1933Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-09T13:37:41-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86On Dating; The Siren; 19313Like the rest of the nation, the University of Illinois certainly suffered the effects of the Depression. Jobs were especially scarce and students were even forced to sell personal items in order to make money. Elston Herron of The Y wrote in 1931 that “students are selling everything from needles to threshing machines, from electric refrigerators to shoe laces. And they aren’t making any bones about admitting that they’re selling things. The day has passed when fellows were ashamed, for some foolish reason, to admit that they were trying to make a little money in ways other than writing back to the old homestead.” Many students worked all summer in order to save up tuition money for the next school year. They were aware of their family’s economic situations and worked their hardest to be as self-sufficient and sustaining as possible. Instead of being brought down by the Depression, students used it as opportunity and motivation to better themselves. They knew competition for jobs after college was high and they had to push themselves if they wanted to succeed. Despite the extra workload required to make ends meet, student activities flourished; they gathered for parades, football games, dances, clubs, theater, and fraternity and sorority events. (“Student Life in the Great Depression”, Joe Gruzalski, University of Illinois Archives, 2013)media/dating_1931b.pdfmeta2016-04-05T11:38:36-07:00The Siren, Freshman Issue1931Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-09T13:18:01-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86"Teens and Twenties: The College Age"; The Daily Illini; Feb. 26, 19363Like the rest of the nation, the University of Illinois certainly suffered the effects of the Depression. Jobs were especially scarce and students were even forced to sell personal items in order to make money. Elston Herron of The Y wrote in 1931 that “students are selling everything from needles to threshing machines, from electric refrigerators to shoe laces. And they aren’t making any bones about admitting that they’re selling things. The day has passed when fellows were ashamed, for some foolish reason, to admit that they were trying to make a little money in ways other than writing back to the old homestead.” Many students worked all summer in order to save up tuition money for the next school year. They were aware of their family’s economic situations and worked their hardest to be as self-sufficient and sustaining as possible. Instead of being brought down by the Depression, students used it as opportunity and motivation to better themselves. They knew competition for jobs after college was high and they had to push themselves if they wanted to succeed. Despite the extra workload required to make ends meet, student activities flourished; they gathered for parades, football games, dances, clubs, theater, and fraternity and sorority events. (“Student Life in the Great Depression”, Joe Gruzalski, University of Illinois Archives, 2013)media/Daily Illini, February 26, 1936.pngmeta2016-04-05T11:39:58-07:00The Daily IlliniFebruary 26, 1936Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-09T13:11:24-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86"The Admirable Chricton" Illini Playbill, 19373Like the rest of the nation, the University of Illinois certainly suffered the effects of the Depression. Jobs were especially scarce and students were even forced to sell personal items in order to make money. Elston Herron of The Y wrote in 1931 that “students are selling everything from needles to threshing machines, from electric refrigerators to shoe laces. And they aren’t making any bones about admitting that they’re selling things. The day has passed when fellows were ashamed, for some foolish reason, to admit that they were trying to make a little money in ways other than writing back to the old homestead.” Many students worked all summer in order to save up tuition money for the next school year. They were aware of their family’s economic situations and worked their hardest to be as self-sufficient and sustaining as possible. Instead of being brought down by the Depression, students used it as opportunity and motivation to better themselves. They knew competition for jobs after college was high and they had to push themselves if they wanted to succeed. Despite the extra workload required to make ends meet, student activities flourished; they gathered for parades, football games, dances, clubs, theater, and fraternity and sorority events. (“Student Life in the Great Depression”, Joe Gruzalski, University of Illinois Archives, 2013)media/Binder1.pdfmeta2016-04-05T11:40:27-07:00Title: University Theatre Records, 1925-83; Series Number: 41/75/251937Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-09T13:22:04-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86A Word on the University Job Market; The Daily Illini; Sept. 13, 19323Like the rest of the nation, the University of Illinois certainly suffered the effects of the Depression. Jobs were especially scarce and students were even forced to sell personal items in order to make money. Elston Herron of The Y wrote in 1931 that “students are selling everything from needles to threshing machines, from electric refrigerators to shoe laces. And they aren’t making any bones about admitting that they’re selling things. The day has passed when fellows were ashamed, for some foolish reason, to admit that they were trying to make a little money in ways other than writing back to the old homestead.” Many students worked all summer in order to save up tuition money for the next school year. They were aware of their family’s economic situations and worked their hardest to be as self-sufficient and sustaining as possible. Instead of being brought down by the Depression, students used it as opportunity and motivation to better themselves. They knew competition for jobs after college was high and they had to push themselves if they wanted to succeed. Despite the extra workload required to make ends meet, student activities flourished; they gathered for parades, football games, dances, clubs, theater, and fraternity and sorority events. (“Student Life in the Great Depression”, Joe Gruzalski, University of Illinois Archives, 2013)media/Daily Illini, September 13, 1932.pngmeta2016-04-05T11:20:11-07:00The Daily IlliniSeptember 13, 1932Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-09T13:06:36-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86Altgeld Hall, circa 19353Like the rest of the nation, the University of Illinois certainly suffered the effects of the Depression. Jobs were especially scarce and students were even forced to sell personal items in order to make money. Elston Herron of The Y wrote in 1931 that “students are selling everything from needles to threshing machines, from electric refrigerators to shoe laces. And they aren’t making any bones about admitting that they’re selling things. The day has passed when fellows were ashamed, for some foolish reason, to admit that they were trying to make a little money in ways other than writing back to the old homestead.” Many students worked all summer in order to save up tuition money for the next school year. They were aware of their family’s economic situations and worked their hardest to be as self-sufficient and sustaining as possible. Instead of being brought down by the Depression, students used it as opportunity and motivation to better themselves. They knew competition for jobs after college was high and they had to push themselves if they wanted to succeed. Despite the extra workload required to make ends meet, student activities flourished; they gathered for parades, football games, dances, clubs, theater, and fraternity and sorority events. (“Student Life in the Great Depression”, Joe Gruzalski, University of Illinois Archives, 2013)media/Altgeld Hall.pngmeta2016-04-05T11:24:49-07:00circa 1935Found in RS 39/2/20, Box BUI Altgeld Exteriors - Construction, Folder BUI Altgeld, 1935-39 (oversize)0005484Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-08T13:25:08-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86Campus Plans Huge Bonfire Torch Parade; The Daily Illini; Sept. 30, 19323The university had many different homecoming activities, but like the “Hobo Parade”, canceled in 1934, many were discontinued. Students seemed to be losing school spirit. The Daily Illini took note, reporting: “Homecoming appears to be back-sliding this year, not because of faulty management or any cause of the like, but seemingly because many students seem to think that all the frivolity and collegiate spirit connected with the weekend is more or less passé.” But while other traditions died, the homecoming football game lived on, the campus erupting in celebration and cheer in a time plagued with depression year after year. (“History of Illinois Homecoming: Depression and Wartime,” ExploreCU, accessed March 2, 2016,http://www.explorecu.org/items/show/262.)media/Screen Shot 2016-02-16 at 1.26.03 PM.pngmeta2016-04-05T11:26:03-07:00The Daily IlliniSeptember 30, 1932Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-08T13:01:07-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86Five Illini Football Players from Program, 19293During the depression, students seemed to be losing their interest in school spirit. The university had many different homecoming activities, but like the “Hobo Parade”, canceled in 1934, students seemed to be losing school spirit. The Daily Illini took note, reporting: “Homecoming appears to be back-sliding this year, not because of faulty management or any cause of the like, but seemingly because many students seem to think that all the frivolity and collegiate spirit connected with the weekend is more or less passé.” But while other traditions died, the homecoming football game lived on at such a scale that toppled the campus in celebration and cheer in a time plagued with depression year after year. (History of Illinois Homecoming: Depression and Wartime,” ExploreCU, accessed March 2, 2016,http://www.explorecu.org/items/show/262.)media/Five Illini Football Players from 1929 Program-min.jpgmeta2016-04-05T11:31:25-07:001929Football Programs, 1898, 1905, 1911- RS: 28/5/811, Box 2, Folder 19290004274Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-08T13:20:36-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86Hobo Band Parade, circa 19263During the depression, students seemed to be losing their interest in school spirit. The university had many different homecoming activities, but like the “Hobo Parade”, canceled in 1934, students seemed to be losing school spirit. The Daily Illini took note, reporting: “Homecoming appears to be back-sliding this year, not because of faulty management or any cause of the like, but seemingly because many students seem to think that all the frivolity and collegiate spirit connected with the weekend is more or less passé.” But while other traditions died, the homecoming football game lived on at such a scale that toppled the campus in celebration and cheer in a time plagued with depression year after year. (History of Illinois Homecoming: Depression and Wartime,” ExploreCU, accessed March 2, 2016,http://www.explorecu.org/items/show/262.)media/Screen Shot 2016-03-08 at 2.48.38 PM.pngmeta2016-04-05T11:33:32-07:00circa 1926Photographic Subject File, 1868- RS 26/4/10006228Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-08T13:16:11-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86Illinois Football Program Cover - Chicago , 19313During the depression, students seemed to be losing their interest in school spirit. The university had many different homecoming activities, but like the “Hobo Parade”, canceled in 1934, students seemed to be losing school spirit. The Daily Illini took note, reporting: “Homecoming appears to be back-sliding this year, not because of faulty management or any cause of the like, but seemingly because many students seem to think that all the frivolity and collegiate spirit connected with the weekend is more or less passé.” But while other traditions died, the homecoming football game lived on at such a scale that toppled the campus in celebration and cheer in a time plagued with depression year after year. (History of Illinois Homecoming: Depression and Wartime,” ExploreCU, accessed March 2, 2016,http://www.explorecu.org/items/show/262.)media/Illinois Football Program Cover - Chicago 1931-min.jpgmeta2016-04-05T11:33:58-07:00November 14, 1931Football Programs, 1898, 1905, 1911- RS 28/5/811, Box 3, 19310006427Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-08T12:52:32-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86University of Illinois Homecoming Football Game Program Original Artwork, 19304The university had many different homecoming activities, but like the “Hobo Parade”, canceled in 1934, many were discontinued. Students seemed to be losing school spirit. The Daily Illini took note, reporting: “Homecoming appears to be back-sliding this year, not because of faulty management or any cause of the like, but seemingly because many students seem to think that all the frivolity and collegiate spirit connected with the weekend is more or less passé.” But while other traditions died, the homecoming football game lived on, the campus erupting in celebration and cheer in a time plagued with depression year after year. (“History of Illinois Homecoming: Depression and Wartime,” ExploreCU, accessed March 2, 2016,http://www.explorecu.org/items/show/262.)media/1930 Homecoming Program Original Artwork-min.jpgmeta2016-04-05T11:45:39-07:001930Photographic Subject File, 1868- RS 39/2/20, Box ACT - 6, Oversize Folder0004256Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86
12016-03-09T13:24:53-08:00Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86The RKO Orpheum Theater shows "Elephant Boy"; The Daily Illini; September 15, 19374Like the rest of the nation, the University of Illinois certainly suffered the effects of the Depression. Jobs were especially scarce and students were even forced to sell personal items in order to make money. Elston Herron of The Y wrote in 1931 that “students are selling everything from needles to threshing machines, from electric refrigerators to shoe laces. And they aren’t making any bones about admitting that they’re selling things. The day has passed when fellows were ashamed, for some foolish reason, to admit that they were trying to make a little money in ways other than writing back to the old homestead.” Many students worked all summer in order to save up tuition money for the next school year. They were aware of their family’s economic situations and worked their hardest to be as self-sufficient and sustaining as possible. Instead of being brought down by the Depression, students used it as opportunity and motivation to better themselves. They knew competition for jobs after college was high and they had to push themselves if they wanted to succeed. Despite the extra workload required to make ends meet, student activities flourished; they gathered for parades, football games, dances, clubs, theater, and fraternity and sorority events. (“Student Life in the Great Depression”, Joe Gruzalski, University of Illinois Archives, 2013)media/Daily Illini, September 15, 1937.pngmeta2016-04-05T11:43:40-07:00The Daily IlliniSeptember 15, 1937Justin Williamsb70f963b476d25237566bff71436a8ecd9b41b86