Tag: Campus traditions

Campus Traditions: Class Colors and the Color Rush

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Written by Anna Trammell We all know that the representative colors of the University of Illinois are orange and blue. For many years, however, students showed loyalty to their individual class by displaying a different set of colors. The tradition of class colors began early in the University’s history. In 1891,... Read More

Campus Traditions: the Failure of the Practical

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Written by Thomas Hendrickson Years ago, nearly a century now, the University of Illinois campus was rife with traditions that undergraduate classes were supposed to observe. Many of these traditions were written down for incoming freshmen in student handbooks published by the YMCA. These were traditions that involved the Senior... Read More