Show STUDENTS SWARM OVER HILL AND t GIVE EMBLEM EMBLE COAT OF WHITEWASH ASli i The big cement U r which lies on a ahill hill hili northwest of the city now stands out with whiteness ss It was U r Uday Uday day yesterday and according to the an annual annual annual nual custom the university students put in a strenuous morning rejuvenating ing their emblem Not only onh did the big Wg letter receive a coat of whitewash but the surrounding ground was covered with black earth so as to make the tho outlines es of the letter more pronounced I At 9 in the morning the stu students students students dents gathered at the school and at 10 11 the hillside surrounding the Jet let letter Jetter Jetter ter was a serene scene ene of great activity A bucket line over a block long was ar arranged arranged ranged leading from the flat fiat below the letter and in a few minutes a contin continual continual continual ual line of buckets from the mixing tanks to the etter letter was in operation Starting from the top the U gradually whitened and at exactly 11 two hours after the students stu had left the school the task was completed This s the quickest Job that has been done on the letter and it was possible by W bythe bythe the excellent system devised by the student body officers Every man haH a special task assigned to him for which he was responsible and in this way a no single minute was lost Nearly four hundred male students worked on the job The freshmen had bad charge of the transportation of oC the ma material material material and the mixing The and other freshmen formed the th bucket line and the Juniors put on the whitewash I I while the seniors senors superintended the job I At noon the of the school enter entertained entertained tamed the boys at a luncheon and In Inthe Inthe Inthe the afternoon an informal barn dance was given In the gymnasium The big bl U was built bythe by the students student of the university two yours years ago a and is constructed of cement four inches dot dop p The letter is Ui feet long and 94 feet wide and in its construction wheelbarrow loads of concrete weigh neigh neighIng ng Ing approximately tons was used AH AU the work was done by the students I in two days Every year ear the faculty grants the students a holiday hoUda to re rejuvenate rejuvenate rejuvenate the big letter The idea of the U grew grev out of a class fight One class placed its numerals on the hill lull by using lime which resulted in a fight between th the two classes ela to maintain I Ithe their numerals on the ground where the U now stands As neither side Bide could make headway a compromise was en into and both classes united in inputting inputting inputting putting in a big U with ith the lime The next year Jear the letter was made In ce cement cement ment meat |