We’re winding down my not-complete collection of Auburn University yearbooks. There are 115 volumes (or 116, if you count the Chrysalis) in the complete collection. I don’t have them all. But I do have quite a few.
These next few weeks worth of additions to the digitized cover collection is simply filling in acquisitions I’ve obtained since starting this silly project. For example, today’s contribution is Birdie Cline’s 1919 Glomerata. It is 50 years older than the one pictured below and, despite a century’s worth of wear rubbing away the decoration, more attractive than this green thing:
Back in 1919, this was your selection of schools at Auburn:
College of Agriculture 1872
Samuel Ginn College of Engineering 1872
Graduate School 1872
James Harrison School of Pharmacy 1885
College of Veterinary Medicine 1907
College of Architecture, Design & Construction 1907
College of Education 1915
College of Human Sciences 1916
The catalogue pointed out “The region is high and healthful, noted for its general good health and freedom from malaria.” The community was entirely dry. (The entire state was voted “bone dry” in 1915). The library was lit by electricity! And heated by steam! (It was a Carnegie.) There was no tuition for in-state students. Religious services were required daily. If you’d failed two classes you couldn’t go to sporting events.
Things have changed.
Of Birdie Cline the Internet tells us little. She would have been an upperclass student in 1919. She enrolled in 1915 according to the old catalogs. She was from Lee County, as almost all of the few female students (Auburn had been co-ed for 27 years.) were in those days. They graduated less than 100 students in 1918. Four or five were ladies.
Do go check out the 1919 Glomerata. To see all of the covers in my collection, go here. For details from within a select few volumes, try here. Also, you can check out the university’s official collection.
I have the 1915 Glomerata. I noticed that it’s missing from your collection, but I’m not sure if I want to part with it. I also have the 1919 Glomerata, but you already have that one.