Editorial Clipping, "Spare the Trees," The Minnesota Daily, September 21, 1900
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Title
Editorial Clipping, "Spare the Trees," The Minnesota Daily, September 21, 1900
Description
Image of a clipping of a newspaper editorial titled, "Spare The Trees," edited from a digitized version of a page from the September 21, 1900 issue of the The Minnesota Daily student newspaper (page 2). The text is as follows:
From time to time in the history of the University efforts have been made to arouse sentiment against the unsightly appearance of the campus, caused by the custom of covering the trees with bills and posters. These efforts have been for the most part ineffectual, yet the Daily considers it wise to again agitate the matter. The looks of the campus would lead a stranger to think that an information bureau or an employment agency was located near by; the trees are overloaded with all sorts and conditions of signs whether or not they have any use or right there. Neither the student body nor the faculty want them on the trees, yet they remain to haunt the sight and to disfigure the most beautiful campus in the West. As if this were not enough to try the patients, posters have been pasted on Northrop Field fence, and by students of the University!
The students should be proud of that fence built by their own hands; can they not see to it that it is not disfigured as the trees have been? The Daily believes that every student is with it in praying that the regents, the faculty, Supt. Guild or whoever has power in the matter shall order the trees cleared of such rubbish and see to it that those orders are enforced.
Now that the University has a daily newspaper, the need for such advertising about the campus has been entirely done away with, and the paper should be sufficient for every purpose for which the poster was formerly employed.
The Daily does not believe that the foot ball managers will advocate such useless advertising as yesterday morning made the campus fairly blush for shame. Everybody with enough spirit to patronize the foot ball games will take the Daily, and read there all such notices. The time has passed when they served a purpose and money would be saved by publishing the same notices in the paper - which publication would cost nothing. President Northrop, yesterday in chapel, hinted at the same thing."
Access a digitized version of this issue of The Minnesota Daily in the University Digital Conservancy (UDC): The Minnesota Daily: September 21, 1900
From time to time in the history of the University efforts have been made to arouse sentiment against the unsightly appearance of the campus, caused by the custom of covering the trees with bills and posters. These efforts have been for the most part ineffectual, yet the Daily considers it wise to again agitate the matter. The looks of the campus would lead a stranger to think that an information bureau or an employment agency was located near by; the trees are overloaded with all sorts and conditions of signs whether or not they have any use or right there. Neither the student body nor the faculty want them on the trees, yet they remain to haunt the sight and to disfigure the most beautiful campus in the West. As if this were not enough to try the patients, posters have been pasted on Northrop Field fence, and by students of the University!
The students should be proud of that fence built by their own hands; can they not see to it that it is not disfigured as the trees have been? The Daily believes that every student is with it in praying that the regents, the faculty, Supt. Guild or whoever has power in the matter shall order the trees cleared of such rubbish and see to it that those orders are enforced.
Now that the University has a daily newspaper, the need for such advertising about the campus has been entirely done away with, and the paper should be sufficient for every purpose for which the poster was formerly employed.
The Daily does not believe that the foot ball managers will advocate such useless advertising as yesterday morning made the campus fairly blush for shame. Everybody with enough spirit to patronize the foot ball games will take the Daily, and read there all such notices. The time has passed when they served a purpose and money would be saved by publishing the same notices in the paper - which publication would cost nothing. President Northrop, yesterday in chapel, hinted at the same thing."
Access a digitized version of this issue of The Minnesota Daily in the University Digital Conservancy (UDC): The Minnesota Daily: September 21, 1900
Creator
The Minnesota Daily Board of Editors
Source
The Minnesota Daily, September 11, 1900, The Minnesota Daily, Volume 2, 1900-1901, Box: Daily02, Ariel and The Minnesota Daily Student Newspaper and Magazine collection, ua00626, University Archives, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities: https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/14/archival_objects/1546514
Publisher
University of Minnesota Archives; The Minnesota Daily (MN Daily Media)
Date
September 21, 1900
Rights
Use of this resource is governed by U.S. and international copyright laws. Resource is property of the University of Minnesota. Please contact the University of Minnesota Archives for permission to publish. https://special.lib.umn.edu/uarchives
Format
Still Image
Language
English
Identifier
BTP_MNDaily_1900-09-21_SpareTheTrees-Clipping_pg2
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Original Format
Newspaper
Collection
Citation
The Minnesota Daily Board of Editors, “Editorial Clipping, "Spare the Trees," The Minnesota Daily, September 21, 1900,” Gallery, accessed November 7, 2026, https://gallery.lib.umn.edu/items/show/6719.