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sacrifice not to be thought of. If Alma Mater wants bells let her pay for them herself.

And yet I have known self-supporting students in institutions where the tuition was ten times what it is at Illinois who gave fifty dollars gladly to a class memorial and who earned it by hard toil.

We can spend ten dollars for a dance or twenty dollars on a house party, or any amount on tobacco or lunches or self-indulgence, but two dollars for Alma Mater—well, what do you take us for?

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