The University Courier.
Vol. II. DECEMBER 6, 1883. No. 7.
THE FORTNIGHT.
In our last issue we asked for opinions of students on the management of this department. Several very interesting and instructive letters have already been received, and the editor hopes to profit by them. But we want more of these letters, and will therefore extend our offer until the next issue in order that we may fill our entire space with them. The author's real name must be signed, but will be published or not as desired.
When a social organization of students excludes from its membership respectable and gentlemanly fellow-students, and does this for no apparent reason, unless it be that those shut out do not "sling on enough style" to please certain exquisites, it looks like the meanest kind of snobbishness. This has been recently done, and in such a way that no one seems responsible. We do not know who is responsible for this neat little trick, and we do not wish to know. Whoever is, has certainly shown himself to be devoid of all the first instincts of a gentleman.
his own. To any one who wishes to know how other schools are conducted, and what are their relative positions, *American Colleges will be welcome. True, the book seems to be written more for parents than students, but the latter may get considerable from it. The author covers the entire ground of the present college education in the United States. He wisely attempts no theorizing of his own, and contents himself with giving the results of his investigations. We of Western colleges may feel a little disappointed at the small notice given us, but we must remember that there is not so much to say of us as of older and better institutions. The most interesting chapters are those on "Instruction," "Morals," "Journalism," "Choice of a College," "Rank in College a Test of Future Distinction," and on "Woman's Education." The noble Greeks may feel agrieved because not one of the fraternities represented here is even mentioned in the chapter on "Societies." The statistics in the appendix are of 1880, and thus are a little antique. Of course there are many minor errors. On page 195 we learn that Prof. Canfield is President of
The average college student generally knows very little about any other school than
* American Colleges: Their students and work. By Charles F. Thwing. Second edition. New York. G.P. Putnam's Sons.