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 LOMBARD 
 
 PICTURE 
 
 BOOK 
 
 BULLETIN OF LOMBARD COLLEGE 
 
 Series XIX JUNE, z 9 3i No. 2 
 
 Entered as second class matter, January 9th, 1913, at Post Office. Galesburg, Illinois, Act of Auguit 24, 1912 
 
A FEW 
 PICTURES 
 
 AND 
 
 A FEW 
 WORDS 
 
 ABOUT 
 
 LOMBARD 
 COLLEGE 
 
The Elm Hedge 
 
 The Most Beautiful Campus 
 
 Lombard has long boasted the most beautiful campus in the Middle West; 
 tin statemenl has never been challenged, and after you have looked through the 
 Lombard Picture Book, you will not only see why the boast has not been dis- 
 puted, but you will be more than ever anxious to enjoy Lombard's beauty and 
 educational privileges with us. 
 
The Winding Path to Old Main 
 
Elms, Willows and Maples 
 
 Ten Acres of It 
 
 A border of wonderful White and English Elms surrounds two sides of 
 Lombard's ten-acre campus, while sprinkled with a lavish hand more than a 
 hundred varieties of over three hundred beautiful trees help make Lombard 
 tin happy, democratic home that every student declares it to be. 
 
Down the Winding Path to Town 
 
 Pictures Everywhere 
 
 Wherever you stand, there's a picture ; whether it be summer or winter, rain or 
 sunshine, fog or frost, beauty is the theme. 
 
 Stand in the entrance of Old Main and look west between rows of stately Elms, 
 
 Elders, Cedars and down "the winding path" 
 toward the President's House and you have 
 what is shown above, as nearly as a photo- 
 graph can make it, one of Lombard's beauty 
 spots. 
 
 Just as an active mind can grow only in a 
 healthy body, — so can an educational develop- 
 ment be complete only as the surroundings are 
 congenial. That is why Lombard is kept ever 
 
 The Executive Mansion beautiful and wholesome. 
 
Old Main A Classic Bit of Romanesque 
 
 Architecture 
 
 What a wonderful pile of masonry Old Main must have been nearly seventy years 
 ago, when it stretched its towers and peeked roof so high above the treeless prairie, 
 and how the good farmers must have admired the audacious spirit of Lombard's early 
 benefactors. Not less do we to-day admire the mellowed Romanesque castle and its 
 artistic setting, nor have we forgotten those loyal friends whose munificence is our 
 heritage. 
 
 The turreted bell tower, the 
 mythical unfinished tower, the 
 beautiful windows, the "spoon 
 holder," the stately entrance, 
 all these help to make Old Main 
 an example of a pure style of 
 architecture that has long been 
 the admiration of Lombard and 
 Galesburg. Pure architecture 
 in a setting of Nature's most 
 beautiful, makes the complete 
 picture. 
 
 The Spoon Holder and the Hall 
 
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 mosphere 
 
 Hut scenery and beautiful buildings do not make 
 a college, although they help mightily in 1 1 1 * - atmos- 
 phere and environment. Lombard has gathered to- 
 gether within these stately, classic halls, a faculty 
 worthy of the institution, and has attracted to its 
 classes a body of students, loyal to the last trench, 
 democratic to the finish and earnest to a fault. 
 
 This, then, is the secret of Lombard's progress 
 during the past few years, — a Christian faculty whose 
 example is worthy and democratic and whose help is 
 cheerfully and gladly given. 
 
 The courses of study are just as democratic and 
 up-to-date as is the faculty, for around a centre of 
 academic, cultural studies, is wound enough work of a 
 practical nature to graduate the student ready to take 
 a definite place in the world ; not only ready to con- 
 tinue his education elsewhere, or merely able to earn a 
 respectable living, but prepared to take some impor- 
 tant place in a live community to-day and make his 
 presence felt at once. That is Education. 
 
 The Northeast One 
 
 Perhaps More So, in Winter 
 
The Mysterious Unfinished Tower 
 
 Legends and Traditions 
 
 The legend of the unfinished tower tells us she was a beautiful girl, that her 
 lover proved false and that during the building of Old Main she threw herself 
 from the south cast tower one night. The workmen could not be prevailed upon 
 to finish the masonry, hence, an added attraction to a beautiful building. 
 
 Lombard is as full of beautiful traditions as is the campus filled with trees, 
 and soon the Dew students become filled with the stories, the songs and the 
 traditions. 
 
Autumn Leaves 
 
 Lombard Spirit 
 
 The Strolling: Walk 
 
 As intangible as a legend, is Lombard 
 Spirit. Just what it is nobody knows, 
 or whence it comes, but that it is there, 
 is certain. Everybody has it, from 
 Freshman to Senior, from "Dad" to 
 "Prexy," graduates, neighbors, friends 
 and all, everybody who knows Lombard 
 recognizes Lombard Spirit. It makes 
 them admire and almost worship the 
 "Lombard Elm," makes them stud}^ for 
 the work's sake, cheer at a foot ball 
 game with the score against them, and 
 help one another over the rough places. 
 That's Lombard Spirit, and you'll feel 
 it right away, — after you've been here 
 a very short time. 
 
 Lombard Spirit is very contagious 
 and it takes, immediately. It is appar- 
 ent on the campus, in athletics and in 
 the class room. The few who do not 
 catch it, do not stay ; the rest are happy 
 because of it. Your success at Lombard 
 will be due to Lombard Spirit. 
 
Sunshine and Shadow 
 
 College Life 
 
 The College Life is a most important part of the college education. A stu- 
 dent who goes to college, recites his lessons, and retires to his room and begins 
 digging away at to-morrow's tasks, will graduate, doubtless, and perhaps with 
 a very respectable standing, but it is as though he had eaten the cake and 
 thrown away the frosting. To get the complete good from the work the student 
 must enter actively into College Life. That is what they come here for. We 
 believe in co-education, we believe in athletics, in debating, glee clubs, dramatic 
 clubs, oratory, parties, and frolics. A little frosting improves a fine big cake 
 and when added by an expert, judicious hand, when spread evenly, and eaten 
 with the cake, it makes the whole more palatable, more nourishing, and more 
 pleasant. 
 
The Hall 
 
 Everything about Lombard is so 
 planned and arranged to make the 
 educational work, the social life, 
 athletics and expenses all work to- 
 gether for the desired end. Boys 
 and girls enter Lombard ; they are 
 graduated men and women. Some- 
 body has said, "Education is 
 preparation for complete living." 
 Granting that this common-sense 
 statement is true, it is easy to see 
 how Lombard is solving the edu- 
 cational problem, by a thorough 
 correlation of College Life. 
 
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Chemistry Invites Women Also 
 
 Science at Lombard 
 
 Tompkins Science Hall is the 
 best proof possible of Lombard's 
 attitude toward twentieth century 
 education. One of Lombard's 
 beautiful buildings had for four 
 or five years seemed to be a bad 
 investment, till suddenly, through 
 an inspired vision. Alumni Hall, in an overnight, changed its name to Tompkins 
 Science Hall. Science to-day is, without question, the one great department of learn- 
 ing that is attracting most attention. 
 
 Men and women alike, are specializing in the important sciences, recognizing 
 that science and industry must solve the big problems of to-day. More positions are 
 open to college graduates with a Scientific training than ever before and Lombard is 
 ready to offer the best of that training. 
 
 Summed up, it will be seen that such courses as require a scientific background 
 are most carefully prepared by specialists who know. 
 
 Tompkins Science Hall 
 
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 Science and Lombard 
 
 Frequent conferences are held with University authorities, with industrial 
 heads and with prominent professional men, so that the Lombard courses may not 
 become stale or old-fashioned. Thus, the Lombard student is given, not only the 
 highest type of instruction, but also the benefit of being constantly kept in touch 
 with the best authorities in his subject. 
 
 Lombard's duty as a progressive small college is then plain; English and Latin 
 or French, and History with Economics must form the foundation of our educa- 
 tional structure. A sure, first story is built, then the special work of Industry or 
 Science is added to the building and a complete piece of architecture is the result. 
 
 Chemistry and Biology are big and important; Home Economics with its 
 scientific background makes practice and theory one ; Mathematics, Economics and 
 the science or theory of industry gives us Business Administration ; thus every 
 course of study can be analyzed just as it was planned. 
 
 Ditto Dietitians 
 
The Gym 
 
 A <'ov«*1«mI Decoration 
 
 Atkletics 
 
 All work and no play makes any place a dull corner. 
 Colleges are no exception and athletics answers the ques- 
 tion. Lombard has a reputation for unusually strong and 
 clean athletics earned by only clean, strong teams. 
 
 A Missouri University last year wrote Lombard's 
 Football Manager, saying: 
 
 "Your request for guarantee is somewhat 
 larger than we are accustomed to pay but 
 Lombard plays such a clean, gentlemanly and 
 peppy game, that we are glad to accept it and 
 put you on our schedule." 
 
 The above is but one item of Lombard's enviable 
 position in athletics. Strong teams, gentlemanly coaches, 
 and sportsmanlike students, make athletics at Lombard 
 one of the pleasant activities, and gives Lombard a rep- 
 utation that is well known and of the highest type. 
 
 Success in athletics consists in winning contests and 
 

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 in clean athletics. Lombard has both in large quantities. 
 
 An important factor in Lombard's athletics is the Annual Interscholastic Track 
 Meet. The Meet in 1921 showed thirty- five of the best high schools of Central Illinois 
 represented by over three hundred athletes. These young men are the finest in the 
 state and Lombard is glad to introduce them to our beautiful campus, and thus show 
 them what to expect when they select a college later. 
 
 A real record was made last 
 year in athletics when over 
 eighty per cent, of all men in 
 college were on the field in some 
 form of athletics. This is the 
 ideal condition, and overcomes 
 the unjust criticism that college 
 athletics attracts but a few good 
 men. This is not true at Lom- 
 bard, for with nearly all men 
 taking part in one sport or an- 
 other, it gives every man an 
 opportunity of making the team 
 and it gives every man physical 
 training so necessary for com- 
 plete health. 
 
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 In the Womens' Gym 
 
 Women and Physical Education 
 
 But Lombard is co-educational. Yes, and that is why we have an ex- 
 pert at the head of the co-ed department where the Lombard girls enjoy per- 
 haps even more than do the men, their athletic games, their physical educa- 
 tion development, their pageantry and aesthetic dancing and, in fact, all the 
 work that not only better fits them for life, but prepares so many of them 
 for a special work based upon the theory and practice of Physical Education. 
 
 Pageantry is an important part of Lombard's work with the women and 
 the Annual May fete at Commencement time is one of the attractions of the 
 city. Over three thousand people witnessed the 1920 pageant and students, 
 graduates and friends look forward to this event. 
 
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 Practice 
 
The Girls' (ilee 
 
 Student Activities 
 
 Nearly every Educational department of Lombard is represented by a club 
 or organization. Each student is interested in his or her specialty and so enjoys 
 this added opportunity of further study with others interested in the same thing. 
 
 What can be more pleasant than a meeting of the Alchemists Club, com- 
 posed of twenty or more upper classmen, all interested in Chemistry? And 
 just so is it with respect to "The Commerce Club," "The Campus Players/* 
 "The Home Economics Club," "The Three Arts Club," "The Glee Clubs, '* 
 "The Mathematics Club," "The Pageantry Players." 
 
 And the Boys, Too 
 
Sigma Nu 
 
 Frats and Secrets 
 
 The greatest secret about fraternities is no secret at alj. That is, the society 
 must have a college in order to live, and what is also true, — no progressive college can 
 long continue that does not recognize that complete cooperation with the fraternities 
 if desirable for both parties. 
 
 A majority of Lombard's men live at their fraternity houses which are more like 
 a big, happy family of grown up boys than like a club house or a lodge room. If 
 once a week a meeting is held behind sealed doors, so much the better, for where is 
 the family that does not enjoy that quiet hour all by themselves occasionally where 
 intimacies arc passed and where advice is given to the j^ounger from the judgment of 
 the older? 
 
 What can be more desirable than the family board where three times each day 
 its members break bread together and in a jovial and free way discuss the little prob- 
 Jems and successes of the dav ? 
 
Phi Delta Theta 
 
 Frats and Secrets Continued 
 
 Friendships knit in college days last throughout life and those started in the 
 fraternity, the club, or the society are strongest of all. 
 
 So Lombard welcomes its three strong fraternities, its clubs, and associations, 
 and will ever harbor and help these great, democratic organizations so long as they 
 stand for better manhood, for high academic principles, and for a better Lombard. 
 
 A most significant event occurred during the Spring of 1921 when the three fra- 
 ternities of Lombard arranged a banquet at one of the city club houses, invited the 
 college president and two professors and "with their feet under the same table," en- 
 joyed a fine dinner, and discussed subjects of mutual interest. This dinner was 
 unique, an affair that no college ever before has attempted and another example of 
 Lombard democracv. 
 
Sororities Too 
 
 Lombard boasts three strong national sororities. What is said of fraternities 
 applies equally to the sororities, except that in the small college it is demanded that 
 the girls shall have dormitory protection not offered by the chapter house. Lombard 
 Hall, a self-governing institution of all the "out of town" women students, is the 
 happiest, big family imaginable. Think, if you will, of a hundred fine, young women, 
 lacking entirely in snobbishness, full of college spirit and the principles of democ- 
 racy, living happily together under rules of their own making and you have Lombard 
 Hall. 
 
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 Alpha Xi Delta 
 
One of the Hall Parlors 
 
 Lombard Hall 
 
 Life at Lombard Hall is happy, homelike and democratic. The girls like it, 
 because it is their own. The "Hall" is governed entirely by the girls them- 
 selves ; they make their own laws ; they elect their own officers, and punish the 
 offenders. 
 
 The Dean of Women, a sympathetic member of the faculty, lives at the 
 Hall, and has indirect supervision over the girls. Faculty discipline is seldom 
 necessary, for here the Golden Rule is worked to a satisfactory conclusion. 
 
 Regularity of habits in rising, eating, study and recreation makes any life 
 a happy one. Yes, if a girl oversteps her privileges she is punished by her own 
 "Judicial Committee," and it is almost an unknown condition where "the col- 
 lege" is asked or obliged to intercede. No wonder then, that Lombard girls 
 seldom wish to "transfer" to another college. The only answer can be that it 
 is educationally, satisfactory and socially, happy. 
 
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OKe HWfArts 
 
 Vocal Art Studio 
 
 VOCAL ART, THE SPEECH ARTS AND PIANO are most important parts 
 of a complete cultural education. That is why Lombard advises that each student 
 spend a portion of his or her time in at least one of the studies of these departments. 
 In fact, many specialize in this work for chautauqua or platform work, for teaching 
 or for the cultural advantage it offers. 
 
 Specialists in per- 
 formance and teaching 
 ability are at the heads 
 of this work and Lom- 
 bard points with a 
 jealous pride to the 
 unexcelled graduates 
 who have studied in 
 the artistic environ- 
 ment of its School of 
 Three Arts. 
 
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Atmosphere is Essential to Vocal Art 
 
 Lombard's School of the Three Arts is more than the ordinary conservatory. It 
 combines the courses in Vocal Art, Expression or Piano, with the academic college 
 courses making a completely rounded out course in which the specialty or major is 
 among the Three Arts. 
 
 The delightful studios lend 
 atmosphere to the work, and 
 frequent recitals keep the in- 
 terest among the students at 
 a high pitch at all times 
 
 The Lombard chapel, where 
 the recitals are held is a dig- 
 nified, beautiful auditorium 
 and one admirably adapted to 
 this purpose. 
 
 Lombard points with much 
 pride and gratification to its 
 "Three Arts School," the 
 studios where the work is ac- 
 complished, and principally to 
 the fine students who have 
 
 Chapel— for Assembly and Recitals been prepared here. 
 
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