The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-11-19
PRESS MEN VISIT
STATE UNIVERSITY
$50 CHICAGO WRITER'S WILL GO
TO CHAMPAIGN TO-DAY
AND YELL FOR ILLINOIS
AGAINST IOWA WILL WRITE
UP THE UNIVERSITY.
Nv Tho Associated Press.

BY tho Associated Press.
Chicago, Nov. lS.-One hundred and
ATTY Chicago writers and newspaper
nca viii 80 to Champaign tomorrow
in the Press Cabs trip to the Uni
-~rsity IL Tlrn@ie In he party will
Re score c. mere Of editors of III
.nais raners ont idC Of Chicago, who
are pon-resilet members of the club.
The lrip is made on the invitation of
President Edmund J. James. presi-
dent IL the university, and the board
of trustees. The panty will leave at
1926 O'Clock from the Illinois Central
station at Twelfth street, the company
having set aside three cars Tor the
club which will be attached 20 the
New Orleans fast train. The circula
ton end of the Chicago press Will be
represented by the Daily News News
boys band, forty strong.
Arrive at Noon.
The party will reach Champaign
inst before noon and luncheon VIII
he served in the armory The Tor
NAL exercises will take place after
.he luncheon. The Press club VIII be
represented by opie Read the author
Nedi1 Mccormick of the Tribune ana
e. G. Cooley superintendent oil
schools President James and mem
hers of the faculty and the board OF
trustees will speak for the univer'
sity. Following these formal eNef-
cises there will be general lnspec'
ion of the university grounds and
buildings with a drill by the Unit
yersity regiment.
when the time comes for the great
football game between the University
Of Illinois and the University OF To-
wa the visitors will fall in behind ne
Newsboys band and march TO inc
football field To preserve strict I'M
nartiality between the two states the
/ Newsboys band will be instructed 10
play "A Hot Time in the Old Town
whenever there is touchdown, which
ever side makes it. The visitors VIII
be instructed in the Illinois yeh
/ aboard the train and are expected 10
no among .he RIOTERS for the Hint
After the footba1l game the time VIII
he spent until supper in visiting ana
with an imprpmptu entertainment
provided b. the newspaper men OF
lchampaign. The visitow will arrive
back in Chicago q; 1880 O'Clock sat
urday night.
What the Visit Means.
"Tbe visit of the writers and news
manor men TO the University of Hi
nois." said Homer J. Carr. president
of the Press club last night, means
much more chan pleasant days out
ing No institution Of learning in the
west has made greater strides Tor
ward in the past decade than the
University of Illinois Its advance in
continent and in all that goes %
make a great university has been
steady and the people of Illinois can
well he proud of the great institution
which tops the public school system
of the state. II is hoped that the TRIP
will do much to enligbten ChicaSoans
upon the advantages Of their OWL
state university
Situated between Michigan on one
side and Wisconsin on the other the
University Of Illinois has no. always
attracted its due proportion OF stu
!. dents among the state universities
With a progressive man like Dr
. James at the head the University o
{ Tlirois is destined to enter upon
!. career of even greater usefulness an
? the trip is in line with his ideas o
s general progTessiveness