University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1911-10-24
Early Day MAGAZINES at NJ. u.

! ride by a local livery barn. Accord
ing to the note. the girls made 1.-THE
welkin ring with college airs and
chOruses and class yells."
The Independent was published
from March 3, 1894, until the close
OF the 19O9-10 school year. 1t was
q weekly magazine-newspaper is
sued on Saturdays. 1t covered week
ly the field now covered by the Uni
versity Missourian daily.
The Barbarians, society of non
fraternity men, organized the Inde-
pendent. 1t did not remain the rep
resentative of that one faction, but
grew, later editors say, to represent
the whole student body and to know
no distinctions based on religious, So
cial or fraternal affiliations.
Miss Elizabeth Gentry was editor
and manager of the Tiger Lily which
doomed once for all at Easter, 1901
IN editorial note said:"We are out of
the ordinary in at least one respect
there will probably be but one issue"
The magazine was neatly printed on
a high quality of paper. Several
poster drawings served as illustra-
tiOns. Light poems, fables and short
humorous sketches dealt with school
life.
The KnOcker came out a. month la
ter. A dOuble-page cartoon dealt
with the Lily in jOcular way. Ar
ticles were written in a style mimick-
iI.g the manner of writing of famous
authors Mr.. DOoley, for instance. The
KnOcker was published for the So
ciety of Knockers by the Hammerwell
Press. William H. Seward was first
knOcker; Adam c. Talley, second
knOcker. On the front cover appears
this editors notice: Il could not
have made this better magazine if
1 had been drunk"
Graft first appeared here in De-
cember, 1905. That is, in magazine
form. 1t was "A Journal Devoted to
Getting There" The entire maga-
zine - two pages - was in an ironi- |
cal vein. 1t asked loyal rOoters to
hire secretly some big fellow to play
football by gifts of few thousand
dollars each. 1t also asked that a /
School of Get-There be given a place
IN the quadrangle. This school was
10 train kidnapers, bank robbers and
similar gentlemen to ply their tasks
in an artistic way.
The annual magazine of the Stu
dents in the School of Engineering
has vivid green covers decorated
with Ireland's famous symbol, the
Shamrock. The magazine has been
ssued since 1906. 1t is put on sale
each year during the st. Patrick's
on the campus March Il.
In 1904 and 1905, the Engineers got
out st. Patrick numbers of the Inde-
,endent. Each of the Knights of ST.
Patrick is roasted" in the Sham
'ock. Poems and short stories deal
With the incidents in the life of an
student. Every student
n school either buys or bOrrOws the
shamrock to read on St. Patrick S
Day
The Nymph was Entered at the
,ostOffice. Columbia. as first-class +;
in 1905. The editors were
;Ot named but their picture was
,rinted showing the backs of two
leads with abundant hair trimmed
Ound at the neck above high collars
nd manly shoulders The first article
vas letter from Saint Wilson the
Red to the Monks at Benton Hail.
here were numerous jokes and short
'oems. Articles a page in length
old of affairs at Missouri in a semi
casting way. 1t called itself "a .
ournal of high character but little !
rinciple."
Such recent publications as the
Ipdiron, the Asterisk, the Missouri !
'armer, the Owl the Oven. are known
t first hand by the older students
ow in school. And others, we are
old, are on the way. %. r. I