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 460 A HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO An interesting development in the life of the University took place in 1895. In that year the first student annual appeared. It was happily named Cap and Gown. The number of students, par- ticularly of undergraduates, was not at that time very large, and for a number of years the financing of Cap and Gown was found very difficult. The students, however, rapidly increased in numbers, the Junior class assumed the responsibility for issuing the volume, and Cap and Gown became a handsome publication of four or five hundred pages. In it the students gave their view of the contem- porary history of the University, naturally giving much space to the Senior and Junior classes, fraternities, clubs, athletics, and social events. The professors sometimes received attention they would willingly have dispensed with, but the Cap and Gown was a creditable and valuable publication. It will prove a mine of information to future historians of the University. It will, perhaps, be remembered that coincidently with the beginning of instruction on October i, 1892, the first student paper appeared the University of Chicago Weekly. Other efforts in this line came to grief, but the Weekly held on its way successfully for ten years. At the end of that time it was felt that the issuing of a daily could no longer be deferred. A reorganization was therefore effected and the Daily Maroon appeared, the continuation and suc- cessor of the Weekly. The first appearance of the Maroon was in October, 1902. In passing out of existence the Weekly issued a handsome historical souvenir, containing more than a hundred pages, profusely illustrated with pictures of the University build- ings, professors, Trustees, and patrons of the first ten years. The Daily Maroon was a four-page paper, and with many ups and downs went on its way during the remaining fourteen years of the quarter- century, with every prospect of continuance. Other ventures, notably the Monthly Maroon, appearing in 1902, were made in the field of journalism, but did not last. The Monthly Maroon did one notable service, publishing in 1906 a fine "Souvenir Number." It ceased to appear after 1907. In 1913 a new student publication appeared the Chicago Literary Monthly. In 1915 a Freshman paper made its appearance the Green Cap, devoted to the interests of the class of 1919. Taking its name from the green cap tradi-